The method of “social network name generator” was employed in this empirical study to examine the effects of Chinese urban residents’ class status on the nature of their social networking. The respondents were clas...The method of “social network name generator” was employed in this empirical study to examine the effects of Chinese urban residents’ class status on the nature of their social networking. The respondents were classified into four classes: professionals and administrators; white-collar workers; small proprietors; and working class (blue-collar, unskilled or semi-skilled workers). A large-scale questionnaire survey of a random sample of 1,004 Beijing residents conducted in the summer of 2000 yielded the following major finding: Compared with the working class, professionals and administrators were more likely to discuss mixed and instrumental issues rather than pure emotional topics in their social networking.展开更多
The emergence of the middle class was closely related to the appearance of industrial society and its consequential constant changes in the social structure. Karl Marx and other theorists in the same camp were among t...The emergence of the middle class was closely related to the appearance of industrial society and its consequential constant changes in the social structure. Karl Marx and other theorists in the same camp were among the earliest scholars who discussed that topic. For a quite long period of time, the debate was mainly focused on the characteristics of the “new middle class.” The middle class, however, has undergone a categorical transformation from the old to the new middle-class, and furthermore, this transformation itself has signified the transition in social patterns from industrial to post-industrial society as well as economic globalization, both of which have contributed to the growth and global expansion of the middle class, having thus fundamentally renovated the middle class.展开更多
文摘The method of “social network name generator” was employed in this empirical study to examine the effects of Chinese urban residents’ class status on the nature of their social networking. The respondents were classified into four classes: professionals and administrators; white-collar workers; small proprietors; and working class (blue-collar, unskilled or semi-skilled workers). A large-scale questionnaire survey of a random sample of 1,004 Beijing residents conducted in the summer of 2000 yielded the following major finding: Compared with the working class, professionals and administrators were more likely to discuss mixed and instrumental issues rather than pure emotional topics in their social networking.
文摘The emergence of the middle class was closely related to the appearance of industrial society and its consequential constant changes in the social structure. Karl Marx and other theorists in the same camp were among the earliest scholars who discussed that topic. For a quite long period of time, the debate was mainly focused on the characteristics of the “new middle class.” The middle class, however, has undergone a categorical transformation from the old to the new middle-class, and furthermore, this transformation itself has signified the transition in social patterns from industrial to post-industrial society as well as economic globalization, both of which have contributed to the growth and global expansion of the middle class, having thus fundamentally renovated the middle class.
