Research On The Change Of Social Values In Contemporary Rural Areas

Since the reform and opening up, China’s rural society has undergone great changes, as well as the values of the rural society. Values play a vital role in maintaining social stability and promoting social development. Marriage view, as people’s basic point of view about the relationship between men and women and sexual behavior, is significant embodiment of values in marriage. Therefore, the study of the changes of marriage view in rural society has a very important significance, which helps us understand the changes in rural social values and explores the complementing measures to perfect rural marriage view.The concept of marriage in contemporary rural society presents the complex characteristics of the collision and blending of multiple cultural consciousnesses. To study marriage view in contemporary rural area, the essay takes the X village in Jiangsu Province as a case from three dimensions of the start, maintenance and existence of marriage relationship.Moreover, the research tries to analyze factors which affect the changes in marriage view from the aspects of country policy, economic life, cultural values and personal consciousness.Overall, the mainstream of marriage view in contemporary rural society is positive and healthy. The advanced marital concepts of contemporary peasants, such as “the care of emotion factor” and “the pursuit of self value”, not only effectively promote the development of rural social values, but also play an important part in maintaining the harmony and stability of rural society. But there is no denying that some problems in the process of rural social and marital view changes have brought great trouble to the stability and development of rural society. These problems are mainly manifested in the “impact of non moral relationships on the harmonious family”, “enhance of the block of improving population quality resulting from early marriage and childbearing phenomenon”, “increase of marriage cost”, “existence of bad marriage ethos” and so on.To solve the problem raised with the changes in marriage view, people should take the core values of socialism as the guiding ideology, making complementing measures as strengthen system construction in rural areas, promote rural economic development, and optimize the construction of rural culture. In an effort to eliminate the negative impact ofchanges in the rural social and marital values, the essay tries to provide for the government’s functional departments with comprehensive management ideas and policies to promote the long and rapid development of rural society.The research of rural values’ change is a difficult and long-term task, on account of the particularity of China’s national condition and the complexity of marriage view in rural areas.Depends on the complexity of the problem, the whole society should be mobilized to solve the problem and make unrelenting efforts in the grasp of the dynamic development process. Hope in the near future, the concept of marriage in rural society will gradually tend to be positive and reasonable; the correct social values will be established in the rural society as well as the whole society.