Chinese Journal of Sociology

Environmental Protection， Group Pressure or Interests Relatedness?

Zhou Zhijia

2011, 31(1): 1-34.

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Drawing upon the data collected between February and March 2008 in Xiamen City， this paper analyzes the motivations of Xiamen citizens who participated in the PX environmental protection movement． It reveals that participation can be categorized into three types： informationrelated， appealrelated and resistancerelated． That social motivation is the most salient factor affecting all types of participation． In addition， the general environmentalprotection motivation has an impact on the informationrelated participation， the selfinterest motivation and the environmentalprotectionofXiamen motivation will enhance the appealrelated participation， and the selfinterest motivation will effect the resistancerelated participation． The PX environmental movement has appeared a characteristic of mass mobilization； citizen participation into the PX movement has merely revealed a rudimentary civility， and the functional absence of NGOs is an important element leading to this situation．

Constructing a Model for Measuring Environmental Concern: Based on the 2003 CGSS Dataset

Lu Chuntian | Hong Dayong

2011, 31(1): 35-52.

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The debate on the dimensionality of environmental concern is still going on. Inferring from the definition of the concept of
environmental concern, this study did a CFA analysis of the empirical data collected in the 2003 Chinese General Social Survey to verify the
measurement of environmental concern. The finding supported the first order measurement model with four latent factors, which fit the data
and the conceptual definition better than the second order measurement model. The study further examined the relationships of social,
demographic, and economic variables with those four latent factors. The correlational strengths and directions indicate that the construct of
environmental concern is not a consistent attitudinal system, which suggests the structural complexity of this construct. This complexity is
in turn reflected in its social, demographic, and economic characteristics.

Prevention and Alleviation: An Exploration of the Role of Social Capital in Marital Violence

Zhao Yandong,He Guangxi,Zhu Yina

2011, 31(1): 53-73.

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Based on the data from a largescale survey, this paper explores the role and influence of women’s social capital in marital violence. In this study, three facets of the construct of “social capital”network size, network structure, and network resourcewere measured. The preventive effects of network size and network structure, and no preventive effect of network resource on marital violence were observed. Women’s network structure showed no effect on the severity of marital violence; however, both network size and network resource had some alleviating effects to suppress marital violence from escalating, but there were significant differences between the urban and rural groups. Theoretical implications of these findings are also discussed in the paper.

Rational Transformation of New Urban Immigrants’ Social Capital

Lei Kaichun

2011, 31(1): 74-93.

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Based on the data from the 2007 survey of 600 new urban immigrants in Shanghai, a comparative analysis of the general social capital and the local social capital revealed that the latter was more beneficial to the new immigrants’ social inclusion than the former. However, the impact of the local social capital differed in its magnitude and direction, which indicated that new urban immigrants’ social capital being localized was a result of their rational selection.

A Study on Social Network Resources and Their Effects on Income: Based on the Quantile Regression Model

Zhang Shun,Guo Xiaoxian

2011, 31(1): 94-111.

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Whether or not social capital has an impact on income is a cuttingedge topic in social networking studies. The results of this study show that favourite resources have a larger impact than informational resources. The combined effects of affiliative and informational resources on income confirm favourite relationships between social network resources and income. In different institutional environments and competitive conditions, the effects of social network resources on incomes vary significantly. The empirical data support three related hypotheses.

The Internal State Mechanism in Collective Bargaining:Evidence from the Collective Bargaining by Wenling Sweater Industry

Wen Xiaoyi

2011, 31(1): 112-130.

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Collective bargaining, a great social invention as a means to resolve labor conflicts in Western society, has not only won the support of workers and their trade unions but also aroused employers’ interest. Through a consultative process, commitment to the agreedupon contract and the development of common interests, an internal state mechanism is created to settle the resentment collectively shared among the workers. In China, trade unions cannot be an effective initiator of collective bargaining due to the Constraints of state corporatism; intensified labor conflicts, on the other hand, are most likely to make the employers be the real “igniter of the engine.” This paper takes a qualitative approach to analyze the collective bargaining by Wenling Sweater Industry to understand the dynamics between the employers and workers in the collective bargaining process in the context of competition and struggle, and the evolvement of the internal “compliancetotheorder” state mechanism on the survival ethics from “disorderly fights”.

Formulating of the Scale for Characteristics of Urban Communities

Xiang Jun

2011, 31(1): 131-158.

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Among contemporary community studies, the issue of whether or not communities exist has always been a focal point for dispute. The author believes the focal point of the issue is not “whether or not they exist”, but “in what way do they exist”. Based on relevant research, the author has formulated a scale to measure “community identity” and has carried out validity and reliability tests for it using data from a survey on Shanghai communities. Then the scale is used to classify Shanghai communities into six types, all of which have their own characteristics.

Socioeconomic Status, Age and Mental Health: An Empirical Study in Shanghai

Yuan Hao

2011, 31(1): 159-182.

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From the perspective of social structure and based on the data from the “Chinese Family Panel Studies in 2008—Shanghai,” this study analyzes the distributions of mental health among different social classes and the distributional changes across different age groups. Mental health is found to be positively correlated with education, income, occupation, and social position but negatively with financial difficulties and unfair treatments. The relationship between age and mental health displays an inverted Ushaped (“∩”) developmental trend. In addition, varied changes are observed in the relationships of occupation type and education with mental health across different age groups. Further studies are needed to explain the better mental state of those who have been laid off but the poorer mental state of young technical workers.

#br# A Study on the Influencing Factors of Peasant Workers’Subjective Recognition of Their Economic Contributions

Chen Xufeng,Tian Zhifeng,Qian Minhui

2011, 31(1): 183-199.

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With the reform getting more indepth, peasant workers are making greater contributions to the economy of their immigration regions. Their subjective recognition of their economic contributions shows differences due to various influences. Five factors of migration/immigration places, human capital, economic returns, social acceptance, and social identity are built in a logistic regression model to analyze their influences on the peasant workers’ subjective recognition of their economic contributions to the regions where they have come to work. Except for the first factor, all the other four factors significantly affect the workers’ subjective recognition of their economic contribution.

The Political Economy of Skill： Based on Marxism Theory of Labor Process

Wang Xing

2011, 31(1): 200-222.

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The human can change the material into productions by labor． In Marxism theory of labor process， labor politics is the intermediate variable which can link the product regime with skill formation． But the Marxism theory of labor process only focuses on the role of skill which is as a tool of class conflict． The interaction between labor politics and skill formation is very complex． The labor politics can shape the trajectory of skill formation． This is an important perspective to understand the comparative advantage of the different capitalism state．

On the Acquaintance Community： An IdealType Exploration of the Mechanism in the Village Order

Chen Baifeng

2011, 31(1): 223-241.

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The foundation of an acquaintance community is renqing （emotional bond）， which has four levels of meaning： feelings， relationships， norms， and mechanisms． With renqing playing its role， any acquaintance community is itself a microlevel power network that has been integrated into an intimate community with less strife internally and with solidarity externally． The etiquette process has renqing instilled in the core of etiquette． In an acquaintance community， people act around renqing relationships； renqing norms define behavioral norms． Such renqingbased behavioral regulations are the “native logic．” Therefore， the “native logic” can be used to analyze the change in the current village order．

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