中国农村的社区情理与家庭养老

The Cultural Norms and Values within Community and Family Support of the Elderly in Rural China

本文采用一种新的理论框架来研究中国农村老年人的家庭支持.作者提出,由于经济落后的原因,中囯农村仍保持着相对封闭的社区,村民之间的紧密互动关系主要是依赖多数人认.同和建立起来的地方价值观和行为规范,在此基础上人们形成了特定的行为模式.在本文中,作者探讨了农村社区内影响老年人照顾的主要价值观和规范.

This essay proposes a new theoretical framework to study the elders’ family support in rural China. The authors argue that villages in rural China are comparative closed communities because of economic backwardness. Within these communities, the villagers keep close interactions from which a local value system （at the level of norm and idea as subculture within the community and also influenced by tradition） that can lead to the consensus of majority in the community is developed. After such value system with norm and idea was established, it became independent and began to shape people’s behaviors. Upon the pattern and the standard of elders’ family support in rural China ,such local norm,idea and the public opinion determined by those norm and idea count heavily. In the article, the authors discuss the norms, values of elderly care with rural community in rural China.