New Chinese Social Stratification And Its Impact On Political Development

With the continuous deepening in reform and opening-up, especially with the gradual perfection in the structure of market economy and the changes in the structure of ownership, there appeared drastic changes of social stratification in China during the transformational process from traditional society to modern society, from agricultural society to industrial society and . from closed society to open society .Besides the changes that have taken place inside the traditional working class and peasants' class, new social strata are also in the process of being born.The changes in social stratification in the process of modernization is an inevitable social phenomenon with the development of social division of labor and execution of the market mechanism, and are exerting ever-increasing profound influence on China's contemporary socialist politics. On one hand, the changes bring about promotion to the development of China's politics; On the other hand, some problems caused by the changes in social stratification may cause social politics unsteadiness. So it is important to suggest corresponding countermeasures and measures to lead and promote the healthy development of the stratification changes so that these changes will be transformed into the promoting force and growth point in the process of China's political democratization and modernization; and also furthermore to bring into full play the significant and active role of these changes during the transformation of the social structure.This thesis is divided into four parts.The first part points mainly out the scientific connotation of the social stratification, which gives theoretic premise of further research of the influence on political development brought by changes in social stratification in China.The second part explores the status quo, reason and characteristics of the changes in social stratification based on the reality.The third part analyzes the positive function and negative influence on the development of China's socialist politics that are brought by the social stratification on the basis of some political theory.The last part suggests supporting system to lead and promote the political development from the perspectives of economics, politics and culture.