In society, social and historical events shaped individual life course, for individuallife this result manifested that their life path or direction changed. If take the educatedyouths for example, in a specific space-time background, we can take going to theto the countryside as the beginning, then the social and historical events are thehands of the power to shape the educated youths generation. The thesis of the paperbelongs to the sociology of life course, the writer take educated youths as the researchobject, and to study characteristic and the relationship between the social andhistorical events and the educated youths ‘s life course at the time by literature andempirical material. The research content mainly pay close attention to educatedyouths down to the countryside, and back to city and so on, the writer mainly focus onthe event that going to mountains and down to countryside had what influence on thelife course and individual dynamic role in the development of their whole life. Inorder to explain how the social and historical events especially social major changesimpact on individual life, and to reveal different age groups had different fate in thecontext of social transformation.This paper conclude that the educated youths generation have an unsteady life andthis is the product of the times. Their life course carried with colour of institutionalarrangement;On the whole, the educated youths generation is a generation whowithout the experience of education screening, although there were college educatedyouths to realize social mobility and the educated youths gave a person positiveenergy, the quantity is limited; In the background of social differentiation, educatedyouth groups often had a fatalism and complained the unfair fate and time; In a word,this generation can not escape the fate that going to mountains and down tocountryside, their understanding for social and historical events and experiences aredifferent because of different degree of participation. Educated youths generation’sdestiny are closely linked together with the social historical events. A person formsociety, society construct of the individual.All the ego are the results of socialconstruction, the power supporting the educated youth to go to countryside is more of a spiritual power. The reason of the educated youths movement could be conducted allthe way is a social system arrangement. The gender’s differences of the life course inthe effect of the same event reflected more apparently, especially women’s affectedlife events.As a whole, going to the countryside produced the influence of the individual lifewas embodied in three aspects: first, the youths of the countryside sports is a kind ofpolitical enthusiasm, educated youth groups contributed to the construction for thefrontier, but educated youths’ life was influenced at different degree; Second, thesystem was different, educated youths was differently treated, educated youths’ lifeexperienced and the feeling was different, so that there was different attitude to thisevent. Experience also was after back to city as different choice they made, especiallydifferent working groups had different gate; Third, no matter in the countryside orback to city, female educated youths was beard more social pressure, even themarriage can be the way for them to make live. Through the educated youthgeneration, we can see this event was not just individual suffering or glory, that wasthe epitome of every step of China’s reform, individuals constitute the society, and thesociety constructed the individual. |