寻求变革还是安于现状 中产阶级社会政治态度测量

Pursuing Change or Maintaining the Status Quo? Measurement of the Sociopolitical Attitudes of the Middle Class

本文试图探讨中产阶级的社会政治态度,并由此判断中产阶级的社会政治功能。基于一项2006年的全国调查数据,笔者设计了一套态度测量量表,区分政治保守主义与政治自由主义的态度特征,分析中产阶级的主要态度倾向。研究发现中国中产阶级内部存在着多种价值取向,既有保守主义的成份也有自由主义的成份,中产阶级在当前肯定是一种社会稳定力量,但其未来走向还存在一些不确定因素。

This paper is to examine the sociopolitical attitudes of the middle class in China and thereby predict the sociopolitical role of the middle class.The key issue is whether the emerging middle class in China is a stabilizer for or a threat to the existing social system.Using a national survey dataset of 2006,the author developed a set of attitude scales to differentiate the major attitudinal features of the political conservatives from those of the political liberals in the analysis of the attitudinal trend of the middle class.The study found diversity in the values of the middle class,showing a mixture of conservatism and liberalism.China＇s middle class is certainly a stabilizing force at present but there are uncertain factors that may affect its future role.