The Empirical Research That Social Stratification And Differentiation In Ruzhou’s Rural Area Will With Background Of Urbanization

Since the economic reform implemented by Chinese government the rural managementsystem which is based on household contract responsibility and combination of separatemanagement has been carried out with rapid development of township enterprise. Meanwhile,there are obvious change in rural ownership structure and different social class. Chinese farmersbegin to shift their agricultural occupation to non-agricultural occupation; at the same time socialstrata in rural areas have begun to differentiate forming new social strata with different interests,occupation and status. Social class in countryside divided constantly put the substained pressure toChinese rural even the all kinds of occupation in whole nation, and also, it has a huge andpersistent effect on each social policy determined by government.According to the existing research about this field, literature, field research and questionnairesurvey, the dissertation try to find the characteristics of Ruzhou City’s social stratification fromanalyzing the current condition in social stratification and historical changes in Ruzhou City.Furthermore, the dissertation will be analyzing the different factors which could affect the socialstratification from macro and micro aspects. Simultaneously, the econometric models has beenbuilt based on the field research data to find how the micro factors such as education level, maritalstatus, age and residence influence the farmers to choose their occupation.In conclusion,farmers’personal factor, in terms of gender men has a dominant position to engage innon-agricultural jobs rather than women.It shows a negative significance level in terms of agewhich means farmers get less chance to engage in non-agricultural career with increasing age.Conversely, marital status has positive effect on non-agricultural employment. Education level insignificant testing is positive, that means education level is an important factor for farmers tooccupy non-agricultural works. In addition, the communist party identity can give positive helpwhen farmers tend to shift their jobs to non-agricultural area. Family factor, there is a negativerelationship between cultivated land area and non-agricultural employment. The amount of laborin rural area would affect farmers’decision-making for occupation but not significant. A familywhich has children aged fewer than6or old people aged over60would opposite influence them towork on non-agricultural business. In the terms of residential characteristic variable the distance tocity has negative relationship with non-agricultural occupation for farmers. Eventually, we conclude that social stratification in rural area tend to be high leveldiversification in occupation and number of part-time and full-time non-agricultural employee willcontinue to increase definitely.