“面子”在小农社会的作用:一个经济分析

The Effects of "Face" in the Peasant Social:an Economic Analysis

从经济学的视角来看,面子在小农社会具有重要的作用。"面子"是一种制度装置,调节着人们的生产生活,在经济领域,面子促进了交易的发生,在社会领域,面子起到了缓解社会矛盾,增进小农福利的作用。随着市场化程度的不断提高,面子作为小农行动规制的外部环境发生改变,这必然导致面子的异化,值得我们思考与重视。

This article attempts to analyze the face effects in the Peasant social from the angle of economics. The ＂face＂ is a kind of system device, which plays an important part in adjusting production and living activities. The ＂face＂ has promoted the occurrence of business transaction in the economic field and eased the social contradictions, enhanced the small - scale peasant welfare in the social field at the same time. With the continuous improvements of the degree of marketization, the external environment of the face, as the small - scale peasant action regulation, has been changing, These changes will lead to alienation and worth us paying more attention.