中国家庭消费权力的现代嬗变

On Changes of Household Consumption Authority in Modern China

当我们把家庭作为一个微观领域施以政治哲学方面的考察时,会发现,家庭内部诸成员之间确实存在着一种类似于政治领域的权力关系。传统中国社会由于其"家国天下"的宗法体系,更是为家庭生活披上了一层政治权力的色彩。而消费生活作为家庭生活的基本组成部分,也不可避免地具有了权力的特性。在当代中国,随着货币经济的发展和市场化程度的提高,家庭消费权力的形式、内容、分配状况等均出现了新的发展态势,学界也已对其作出了不同程度的研究和探索。故作者旨在从消费主体的倾斜、消费客体的多样化、消费时间的占有状况三个维度来审视和比较中国传统与现代家庭中的消费现象,从而试析中国家庭消费权力的现代嬗变问题。

When taking family as a microscopic domain and viewing it from the political and philosophical as-pect, we discover that there exists an authority relation among the family members. As a result of China＇s traditional patriarchal clan system, family life was covered with a political power color. As a basic component of family life, consumption was characterized with authority. In China today, along with the development of monetary economy and marketization, the form, content and distribution of household consumption authority have new trends. This article intends to discuss and compare the consumption phenomena of modem families and traditional families from the dimensions of consuming subject, consuming object and consuming time, so as to analyze the changes of household consumption authority in modern China.