| With the continuous advance of China’s economic and social transformation, there are some obvious differentiation within the group of migrant workers, more and more migrant workers choose to enter the city to carry out individual management, becoming "self-employed individuals who occupy a small amount of capital". The great transformation from rural to urban social structure and the change of the identity and status of the migrant workers from wage earners to the self-employed will inevitably bring about the evolution of the individual social relationship network.This article takes the self-employed migrant workers as a subject of research and display their experience world and living conditions in the city by a more specific way, based on the analysis of social relationship networks. The process of migrant workers into the city management is also a process of continuous reconstitution and reconstruction of social relations and social networks. In the early stages of the self-employed migrant workers into the city, the traditional ascribed relationship of blood and geography has become the foundation of constructing the city social relationship networks, and also provides a strong support for the development of their business activities. The family management, chain operation and acquaintance business based on the "Hometown Complex" become a special way to restructure their traditional social networks. To obtain the resources needed to carry out individual business in the interaction of reciprocity, entertainment, gift and business with a strong "human" color, the traditional social relationship network has also achieved the transition from rural to urban areas in this process. At the same time, as the main body of the market, the self-employed obtain the opportunity to communicate and interact with customers, intermediaries, suppliers, and other individual operators through the intermediary role of agglomeration of the market place. Based on the realization of good economic exchange activities, and then supplemented with later additional services, human relationships, the principle of good faith and gifts, etc. they change the "stranger" in the market operation to "acquaintances", so as to establish the modern social relationship network with the core of business relationship.In the process of restructuring the traditional social relations and constructing the modern industry relationship, the self-employed migrant workers have realized the revolution of their "in place" social relation network from the new to the development and consolidation. In this process,their social relation network present tendency of extension of range, increase of heterogeneity and the mixture of "human" and "interest". In the long view,there are still many difficulties in the construction of their "in place" social relation network. It is necessary for all sectors of society to give utmost attention to them. |
