“殊途异类”:当代中国城镇中产阶级的类型化分析

"Different Ways to Different Types": Typological analysis about the middle class in present China's towns

本文以中国社会的制度转型过程为背景来分析中国中产阶级的社会功能。作者根据"再分配→市场"转型的二元分析框架,按照"社会结构—阶级经历—阶级认同—阶级性格特征"的逻辑,对当代中国的中产阶级群体做出"内源—外生"的类型化区分,并基于2003年CGSS调查数据,从"代际延续性"、"政治意识"和"消费意识"三个方面讨论了两类中产阶级不同的性格特征及其社会功能,从而提供了一种分析当代中国中产阶级分化的类型学模式。

This article analyzes social functions of China's middle class against the background of institution transformation. Using the dual analytic framework of 'reallocation to market' and logic of 'social structure-class experience-class identity-class character', the writer makes typological differentiation between present China's middle classes, and defines this kind of differentiation as 'endogenous vs. exogenous'. Also, based on the data of CGSS 2003, the writer discusses different characters and social functions of these two different types from three aspects, i.e., generational continuity, political consciousness, and consumption consciousness, providing a typological mode for analyzing the differentiation of present China's middle class.