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Evolvement Of Ruassian Migrants Status Group In Harbin And Its Social Influence

Posted on:2008-08-31Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L FuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360245996881Subject:Sociology
Abstract/Summary:
As the special participant of a society, migrants are always topic for discussion in sociology all through the ages. In many countries and regions, large or small sized migrants'movement impacts the social changes and development in someway. And the influence by those migrants'movement is brought into some sociologist consideration. Assemble of Russian migrants in Harbin, definitely shows the huge influence by large scale migrant. In this research, archives analysis and literature review analysis are used to analyze the form, development and decline of Russian migrant and its status contrasted with local people with"status group"concept defined by Weber as the analyze frame.. In the research, we will find that the social influence caused by Russian migrant were economy monopoly and admiration to the life style.As a status group, Russian migrant contains four factors, which are respect in social class, monopoly in procurement, life style in social class identification and population in validity. The process of Russian migrants'development and decline is also represented in the following four composing elements: In Harbin society structure, the respect to the Russian migrants represents the extent of social condition changes. The scope of monopoly can be measured as the influence by Russian migrants. Russian migrants'life style is not only related to their social position and capital procurement, but also gauge to see if the interaction between migrants and local people is enlarge. The increase or decrease of population shows expand or lessen of the grope scale directly.The relationship between Russian migrants in Harbin and the local people are always be balanced, that is as one falls, another rises. That is because that the high social class of Russian migrant always takes to admiration from local people. And along with the group position changes, it comes to the actually simulation, and the group position declines leads to replacement of simple simulation by interaction, therefore enlarge the social influence.
Keywords/Search Tags:Russian migrants in Harbin, status group, social influence
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