Filial Piety And Rural Order In The Social Transition

The culture of filial piety, a pillar of Chinese ethics, is an important part oftraditional Chinese culture. However since the20th century, as the politicalmodel in The Same Structure of the Clan and Country disintegrates, the order offamily ethics is also changing.Recently China is experiencing the ethical crisis,in which the obvious features as the anomie of filial piety. Standing on the pointof the construction of socialist culture and rural governance, the systematicresearch is in emergent need about the filial piety issues of transition period."Filial Piety and Rural Order in the Social Transition-Southwestern ShandongVillage H" is written based on the specific social lifestyle in economic, social,ecological structure and the relevance between piety associated and ruralorders from a sociological vision. and further study on transformation of ruralmorality and discourse, variation of Authority and order, substitution of Virtueand rule of law. Along this logic train of thought,3parts are mentioned below.Part1Social Transformation·Disorder of Village· Filial Piety AlienationIntroduction, Chapter I the changing social and ecological order in Village H,Chapter II "Fracture and Inheritance": village discourse and practice of filialpiety in a new era are included.This section lays out the cultural and geographical coordinates of thepractice of filial piety and the analysis of human customs, social life, the grayspace, etc. The research points out the cultural ecology field of the filial piety inVillage H. Then, through the historical memory of the notions of filial piety, thesection contains the tiered standard and its order features in the field of keepingbalance of raising or respect with filial piety. Using this kind of analytical tools,the writer separately investigates the knowledge and achievements from boththe concept and practice. The results showed that, compared to the traditionalfilial piety memory and contemporary doting reality, the filial piety knowledgehas been fragmented and marginalized. The Loss of filial piety is accompaniedwith the village social transformation and disorder.Part II the Conflict and harmony of the ethic of filial piety andfamily· village· National order. Chapter III "Piety and Repay: in the order ofthe family ethic of filial piety", Chapter IV "Piety and Ritual: the filial piety in thecommunity etiquette order, Chapter V "Piety and Law: in the stateadministrative intervention" are included. From the analysis of the changes in family structure, Chapter III starts toanalysis the Sociological research for family intergenerational relationshipsespecially thorniest law relationship, and then find the solution to familyharmony from the social-political source of elderly crisis. Next, the chapter talksabout the process of the peak position of filial piety in traditional villages. It isfrom the angle of governance to discuss China’s rural society (with theunification of the Act, with rituals enlightenment, with a cultural identity Ampang), including the investigation of the filial piety socio-political eco system,the social management of etiquette, the practice and maintenance of filial piety,the control and praise of village ritual sof filial piety, and the approve andsupport of the local government and the laws to the village’s rules. In themeantime, with the degradation of the piety and etiquette support system andmodern jurisprudence countries’ penetration of rural governance and lawelements, filial piety degenerated into a hard book to read. Once more, With theIntegration and control of the nation-state in modern times, especially after thefounding of New China, the double transformation of the "Four Olds" and"Building new knowledge", the filial piety deterred embarrassedly when thelegal laws comsin to the countryside and the society is in the hard choicebetween the laws and the traditions. The National Family planning policy andcremation, Simple funeral management regulations attempt to control the localtraditions and customs of the society, so as to change fundamentally from theconcept of filial piety that the fertility priority in the control of PopulationProduction.Part III From native to after local: thee volution of the order of filial pietyand villages. It talks about Chapter6,"the new concept of filial piety and thevillage community order reconstruction." It is about under the perspective offilial piety and villages, the changes in the evolution of filial piety and villagesseek the results and consults and the control system. Inspect segmented bysocial change, the chapter combine the traditional filial piety and? which isconsidered as an isomorphic governance mode, the difference between filialpiety in the transition period and villages order. This longitudinal investigation isuseful to seize there construction of village orders and turns into a supplementof the above second part of filial piety horizon talprofiling. As shown in the"cube-type social change theory proposed by Yu, social transformation, theactual effect of social complexity, social change, and also at different levels of the Rubik’s Cube-type society, different areas of to measure mutual relations.Based on research of dialysis Cube within society dynamic mechanism, theresearch also explores the intrinsic effects of filial piety flow changes andvillages social order. First, the country’s Governance and policy will change andaffect the local social order; Second, internal resources of the village and orderto maintain the basis of rural development and stability. The ultimate effect ofthe new rural construction movement depends on the positive interaction andcomplementarity between the both sides. At last, the research put forward itsrational thinking of the re-building of village order and new filial piety, focusedon the village order refactoring.The research draw a conclusion in the end that filial piety as a bond ofIntergenerational exchange, Neighborhood mutual trust and National stability,once Played an important role in the traditional society. But when we enteredinto the modern time, especially when Chinese proceed Reform and opening upin1978. it caused all-around changing in the social, economic and cultural field.Rural society’s local knowledge and regular power is weakening, The traditionalcultural power declined, and filial piety lost its survival environment, But as Maxweber proposed that business rational calculation based on the social trust ofethical spirit,There also need new Institutional culture to Provide specificationand consensus in the process of rural social transformation. Standing in theheight of the rural governance, from the angle of national and social interaction,We should re-examine the modern value of the filial piety culture, explore therelevance of endogenous order in rural society, and reshape the future of thecountry culture.