Abstract: The social classification of peasant migrants originated from institutional arrangements, a kind of social arrangement for the need of a city-country residential registration division installed by prescribed institutional actions and affirmed by such acquired outcomes as educational levels, individuals’ occupational choices, and the consuming taste in daily living. Its dynamic mechanism resided in early socialization and prescribed arrangements, which was the original driving force for the formation of groups' symbolic boundaries. Secondly, social classification was also shaped by social psychological processes and mechanisms through the social cognition system and the operations of social comparison, self-categorization, re-socialization, and self-redefined classification. Such behaviors in interaction set into motion the internalizing process of the groups’ symbolic boundaries and brought about their reproduction. Finally, social classification was an outcome of the increasingly fortified narrative logic, discourse system, and symbolic signs. Through social construction and knowledge reproduction, this trio could secure the process to internally fortify and reinforce groups’ symbolic boundaries.

Key words:

peasant migrants, social classification, groups' symbolic Boundaries