“面子”视角下我国腐败现象的文化透视

A Cultural Examination of Chinese Corruption From the Perspective of "Face"

在既有的腐败问题研究中,国内学者大多直接使用或借鉴西方学者构建的关于腐败问题的种种概念和理论,而我国社会中普遍存在的对社会行为发挥规范作用的社会文化概念——面子——却被一些研究者忽视了。在强调人际关系和谐的文化逻辑下,无论是请托者还是国家工作人员都倾向于通过"给面子"的实践过程来维持彼此间的密切关系。在这一过程中造成道德性面子与社会性生面子相分离,使得社会个体尽管在价值层面上认同廉洁行为(即道德性面子),但在现实层面上更倾向于通过腐败行为获得社会性面子,从而导致腐败行为的滋生与蔓延。

In recent research papers which focuses on corruption in China, Chinese scholars always directly use or reference the conceptions and theories of corruption which has been built by the western scholars. But scholars researching on corruption ignore the ＂face＂ which is pervasive cultural conception in our society and plays a normative role in social behav- ior. Under the cultural logic of emphasis on harmonious interpersonal relationships, reques- ter or state functionary tends to ＂give face＂ to maintain close relationship between each oth- er. And this process leads to a separation between ＂moral face＂ and ＂social face＂ . So individ- uals in our society identify with honest behavior or ＂moral face＂ from the perspective of value, but prefer to obtain ＂social face＂ through corruption behavior from the perspective of reality.