Chinese Journal of Sociology ›› 2010, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (5): 96-120.

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Based Game: A New Explanatory Framework for RightSafeguarding Action in Grassroots Society

Author:Dong Haijun,Department of Sociology,School of Public Administration,Central South University   

  1. Dong Haijun,Department of Sociology,School of Public Administration,Central South University
  • Online:2010-09-20 Published:2010-09-20
  • Contact: Dong Haijun,Department of Sociology,School of Public Administration,Central South University E-mail:donghj34@126.com
  • About author:Dong Haijun,Department of Sociology,School of Public Administration,Central South University
  • Supported by:

    The research was supported by the foundation of “The Research of Hunan Province Situation and Policy Decisions Consultation”(0809B229).

Abstract:

The research on rightsafeguarding actions in grassroots society has kept the dialog ongoing, but it needs a comprehensive explanatory framework to rid the current explanations of their tension. Borrowing the meaning of Shi in a native resource concept and nurtured by the sound core explanatory ideas, the author used a real life township case to suggest an integrated explanatory framework—a Shibased Game with four aspects of perceiving  Shi , creating Shi, lending or borrowing Shi, and applying  Shi , which are in the same rightsafeguarding action system together with the gameobject`s response by Shi and the mediator’s MiddleWay Shi . This framework displays the rightsafeguarding actor’s plurality, the game`s equality, tactics’ expediency, factors’ diversity, and contents’ richness. It reflects the transitional tendency in the Chinese grassroots society, expands the rightsafeguarding perspective in the grassroots, and exhibits a process from the form of safeguarding rights of the government vs. the civil or the powerful vs. the weak to a game involving multiple interest groups. Thus, this framework possesses a better integrative explanatory power at a higher level.

Key words: Shi based Game , rightsafeguarding action , grassroots society ,   explanatory framework