农村流动人口研究的社会网络视角

Perspective of Social Network in the Studies on Rural Migrants

对社会网络理论的发展和应用进行了回顾,重点评述国内外关于流动人口的社会网络研究。国外利用社会网络视角系统研究流动人口的成果相对较少,而国内的流动人口研究主要集中于农村流动人口的网络结构分析和求职网络研究。多数研究只是对个体网络的基本特性作描述性分析,将社会网络作为研究对象而不是研究方法。对未来利用社会网络分析方法进行农村流动人口的研究提出了展望。

This paper reviews the development and application of social network theories, especially for the studies on migrants in existing literatures. The result shows that few foreign researches utilized the theory of the social network to study migrants systematically, and domestic studies mainly concentrate on the structure of network and job - searching analysis of rural migrants. Most studies just describe the basic characteristic of the individual network, and regard social network as the research object instead of the research approach. This paper gives some suggestion for utilizing the analytical approach of the social network to carry on studies on rural migrants in the future.