美国社会的劳动及其意义——中镇仁人舍的例子

Labor and Its’Meaning in the States—Case Study from Zhongzhen Renrenshe

在"劳心者治人,劳力者治于人"观念的影响下,很多国民轻视劳动。而在西方,劳动作为生产力、新教伦理、人的尊严而地位上升。在美国,劳动还是社会建立的基础、历史记忆、日常经验和浪漫的追求。中镇仁人舍的例子展示了作为礼物的劳动,它启动了总体的社会事实而具有丰富的意义。

Influenced by the concept of ＂Those who do mental labour rule and those who do manual labour are ruled＂, Civilians in China despise the labor work, yet in the west society, people improve the social status by labor work in the name of productivity, protestant ethics as well as the self-esteem. In the States, labor work is the foundation of the society and the pursuit of memory, daily experience and romance. The case of Zhongzhen Renrenshe, considered labor work as the gift, start-up the total social fact with affluent meaning.