民国时期西北民族地区的社会构成及其特点

Analysis on Social Constitution and Characters of Northwest Ethnic Areas in the Period of Republic of China

在东部汉族地区现代化浪潮的影响下,民国时期西北民族地区的社会构成发生了相应的变化,产生了新的社会群体。这些新群体相对于东部汉族地区来说,有出现时间晚、规模小、分布密度小、封建性色彩浓等特点。传统的社会群体特别是农民(包括牧民)所占比例大,在社会上特别是在农村仍有很强的控制力。新兴社会群体主要分布在经受现代化洗礼较深的城镇,虽然所占比例小、遗留有浓厚的封建性色彩,但表现出强有力的生命力,并预示着现在西北的发展方向。

Impelled by the modernization, some changes took place in the social constitution of northwestern ethnic areas. Compared with the whole nation,in the new emerging communities, there were some characters, such as——late emergency, small scale, sparsy distribution, and strong sense of feudalism. The traditional communities, especially the farmers including herdmen, were in large size. They had manipulation in the society especially in the villages. Although these emergent groups are in small size. they remain strong sense of feudlism, and mainly distribute in the modernized towns, showing strong power,and the trend of the development in northwest.