The Stratification In The "Village-in-a-city"

"Village-in-a-city"is common phenomenon in coastal areas of southeastern China where the economy has developed faster and the social structure has changed dramatically. This essay considers the "village-in-a-city"of Wenzhou in order to discover its structure and evolution from a stratified social perspective. This stratified social structure exists commonly and eternally in every human society, but this does not mean that social status is fixed. Stratification and social change are very important in macro-society analysis of social organization and in defining a complete social structure. Since opening up and reform in China, the Wenzhou social structure, as in the rest of China, has changed from an integrated society to a diverse one, with institutional reform as its motivation. The system of ownership has changed from single pattern (public ownership) to a variety of joint and private ownership. With this change, resource distribution has also changed, becoming the basis of a shift in power and interest in a part of the population. Meanwhile, the diverse change in the industrial structure, and the reform of the permanent residence system, has lead to the stratification of the farmer group. It is difficult to provide a standard definition of this stratification on which everyone can agree. Even when we have got some agreement, it is often opinionated. The Wenzhou "village-in-a-city"became an early market economy whose economic foundations, individual consciences, and econo-social structure have changed greatly, and has, therefore, become a relatively open society. As a microstructure, it is very different from either western or typical urban and rural communities in China. According to occupation, income, and social influence, I have divided the farmer in the "village-in-a-city"of Wenzhou to...