Study On The Cultivation Of Rural Migrant Workers’ Socialist Civic Awareness

Since the reform and opening up,the surplus rural labor force has begun to transfer to cities in large quantities under the circumstances that the urban labor force demand increases due to the acceleration of industrialization process and the agricultural labor force demand decreases due to the transformation of production and operation mode.For a long time in the past,the peasant status of these migrant workers has not changed,but they have been called “Rural Migrant Worker”because their production and life style embodying the “amphibious” characteristics of both farmers and workers.Since the new century,rural migrant workers have attracted widespread concern in society with their large population,important social membership status,huge social contribution,and multiple survival dilemmas.There are two reasons to study the cultivation of the socialist civic awareness of rural migrant workers.One is based on the political concern about the tension between the requirement of national modernization and the citizenship quality of migrant workers,responding to the practical requirement of the state and society to cultivate the civic awareness of migrant workers under the requirement of the new human-oriented urbanization strategy.The other is based on the humanistic concerns about the rural migrant workers’ psychological distress caused by the cultural field transformation,responding to their practical needs of cultural and psychological remolding in the process of modernization transformation from villagers in traditional agricultural civilization to citizens in modern urban civilization.This study is divided into seven parts.The introduction part puts forward the reasons and values of the research,sorts out the related researches,and explains the research methods and main ideas of this thesis.Chapter One is about the background of the cultivation of socialist citizenship consciousness of migrant workers and related theoretical resources.This chapter traces the historical process of the emergence and development of migrant workers and the evolution of their civic awareness,analyzes their practical problems,and discusses the necessity of cultivating their socialist citizenship consciousness.It also introduces the relevant theoretical resources for the cultivation of socialist civic awareness of migrant workers,including the Marxist theory of civic consciousness,the theory of ideological and political education,the theory of socialist democracy and rule of law with Chinese characteristics and the theory of foreign civic education.Chapter Two analyzes the socialist citizenship consciousness of migrant workers and the dimensions of the investigation.First of all,starting from the connotation of citizen concept,it analyzes the basic elements of citizen consciousness through combing the evolutionary process of citizen consciousness in Western culture,and defines the connotation of citizen consciousness in this thesis following the interpretation of citizen consciousness by Chinese scholars.Secondly,based on the disciplinary attributes of ideological and political education,it focuses on the connotation,content,characteristics and functions of socialist citizen consciousness from the perspective of socialist core values.Thirdly,based on the practical problems faced by migrant workers in the process of urbanization,it introduces the investigation dimensions of the socialist citizenship consciousness of migrant workers,the rights consciousness,the public responsibility consciousness,the democratic rule of law consciousness and the public participation consciousness,paving the way for the following investigation.Chapter Three is about the investigation and analysis of the current situation of migrant workers’ civic awareness.This study found that rural migrant workers’ civic awareness was not strong through a survey of 1,180 rural migrant workers across the country.In the comparison of the four dimensions of civic awareness,the rural migrant workers’ rights awareness is the strongest,and their public responsibility awareness the weakest.Their consciousness of democracy and rule of law is strong while their consciousness of public participation is medium and weak.In terms of rights awareness,rural migrant workers have the strongest awareness of social rights,followed by their civil rights,and political rights.In terms of public responsibility awareness,they have a comparatively strong sense of patriotism,but their sense of tolerance and cooperation is moderately weak,followed by their weaker public welfare and their political responsibility which is extremely weak.In terms of the consciousness of the rule of law,rural migrant workers have a high degree of recognition of legal authority and a strong sense of law-abiding,but they have weak democratic consciousness and know little about spirit of contract and Humanism.Their legal beliefs are far from established.In terms of public participation awareness,rural migrant workers have the strongest sense of economic participation,especially the economic activities that are closely related to their interests,but their awareness of participation in political activities and social public activities decreases successively.At the same time,the four dimensions of civic awareness of rural migrant workers vary according to gender,age,education level and income level.Chapter Four analyzes the reasons for the weak socialist civic awareness of migrant workers.Judging from the development of civic culture in China,the stubbornness of Chinese traditional subjects thinking,the limitations of Chinese enlightenment and the twists and turns of the development of new Chinese civic concepts are the ideological roots of the weak civic awareness of the entire society,including migrant workers.Judging from the civic practice of migrant workers themselves,there are still many problems in their rights protection activities,political participation activities,cultural participation activities and social public participation activities due to their relatively weak material basis for survival,inadequate social protection and the limitations of their comprehensive quality.Judging from the policies of the migrant workers’ civic awareness cultivation,the relevant policies involve the requirements of migrant workers’ urban civilization education and quality improvement,but lack the task of directly cultivating their socialist civic awareness.The training content of migrant workers is mainly about vocational skills training,but there is less training in the integration and development of urban cultural resilience.Moreover,in the implementation of relevant trainings,there are still problems such as unclear subject responsibility and imperfect managementChapter Five relates the goal,principle and content of the cultivation of socialist citizenship consciousness of migrant workers.Based on the function of socialist civic awareness,the goal of cultivating socialist civic awareness of migrant workers is to cultivate good citizens of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era,to maintain a stable national political order,and to build a harmonious and orderly social public domain.There are four basic principles for the cultivation of socialist civic awareness of migrant workers: the combination of dominance and diversity when confirming the basis of thought,the combination of subjectivity and publicity in social interactions,the combination of identity and difference when selecting contents,and the combination of inheritance and innovation in methodology.The main contents of the cultivation of socialist civic awareness of migrant workers include enriching their civic knowledge,strengthening their national identity,cultivating their public spirit and improving their civic ability.Chapter Six explores the practical approaches to cultivating the socialist citizenship consciousness of migrant workers.From the macro,meso and micro levels,it discusses the methods and measures for cultivating socialist citizens’ awareness of migrant workers by the state,network media,social organizations and migrant workers themselves.The cultivation of socialist citizenship awareness of migrant workers at the national level means that the state provides good policy orientation,institutional support and material basis by formulating relevant policies and improving relevant supporting mechanisms based on adoption of controllable and regulated resources.At the same time,at the macro level,we must also make use of internet-based media in creating a civic cultural atmosphere by using mainstream media to clarify civic cultural orientation,intervene in mass media to disseminate good civic cultural information,and focus on self-media to correct the bad.The cultivation of socialist civic awareness of migrant workers at the social level is a process in which social organizations use various resources to enrich the civic knowledge of migrant workers,conduct practical training and guidance,and create qualified citizens.The self-awareness education of migrant workers can be carried out in three aspects: self-learning,self-practice and self-reflection.This research attempts to innovate the narrative model about the study of rural migrant workers.Based on the "survival-economy" narrative model under the presupposition of survival theory and the "identity-politics" narrative mode from the perspective of citizenship,this thesis tries to establish the "psychological-culture" narrative mode about migrant workers.It analyzes the problem of cultural field transformation faced by migrant workers because of the change of their living environment,and points out that the cultivation of civic consciousness is an important means to alleviate their cultural anxiety and improve their cultural adaptability.This study establishes the objectives,principles,contents and practical measures of the cultivation of rural migrant workers civic consciousness,all of which mainly revolve around the cultural and psychological urbanization of rural migrant workers.