从结构到文化:农民工消费研究回顾与展望

From Structure to Culture: A View of Researches on Migrant Workers’ Consumption

农民工研究是当下学界关注的热点之一。从消费行为、消费结构、消费观念等方面就近年来中国农民工消费的研究作了较为全面的综述。一个基本的发现为:已有农民工消费研究主要集中在消费结构方面,且以区域定量调查为主要方法,消费文化和消费社会功能的研究至为薄弱。而消费文化的研究将会升华农民工消费的意义,并利于农民工消费理论的建构。为此,在研究方法上尚有待加强实地研究和比较分析的分量。

Research on migrant workers is one of the academic focus at present. This article makes a comprehensive review on recent domestic study on migrant workers＇ consumption from the aspects of consumption behavior, consumption structure and consumption concept. It finds out that those analysis were focus on consumption structure and the quantity ration investigation, while the social function of consumption was ignored. This article expresses that the research on consumption culture will promote the significance of migrant workers＇ consumption as well as contributing to the consumption theory. Hence when choosing research method, it is important to put emphasis on comparing analysis and field research.