“中产阶级”与社会冲突:有恒产者有恒心?

The Middle Class and Social Conflict: With Property,With Perseverance?

关于社会冲突的研究,近来已有各种视角分析其产生的根源和治理之策,大多数研究是将其分类,较少从其参与者的社会阶层分析。社会学理论认为橄榄型的社会结构最为稳定,因此中产阶级是社会的稳定器。但本文通过使用中国社会综合调查数据分析发现,中产阶级很多时候变成了社会冲突事件的参与者和支持者,偏离了"有恒产者有恒心"这一论点。城镇"中产阶级"在遇到财产纠纷时更多地使用正规性渠道来解决,农村"中产阶级"则更多地涉入非正规性渠道。本文认为,中国经济社会转型过程中财产权利清晰界定的市场建设仍然不足,这导致了中产阶级偏离"有恒产者有恒心",甚至部分"中产阶级"成为缺陷性制度的套利者,而这进一步激化了社会矛盾和冲突。

This paper uses the 2005 national survey data to analyze if the middle class is the stabilizer of the society. The empirical study finds that middle class are participants and supporters in most group events,which deviate from the 'people who possess property have perseverance'. Urban middle class use more formal channels to resolve property disputes,middle class in rural areas are more involved in the informal channels.This paper argues that,in the economic and social transformation,property rights are still not clearly defined,which led to the middle class have no perseverance,and part of middle class even become arbitrage,which further intensifies social conflicts.