There had not been much attempt to interweave the impact of both social status change and social transformations on the memory, hence identity building of same cohort. This is because time was needed for stratification to complete and the impact of social transformations on the life course of an individual to be settled. Educated youth (zhiqing 知青) should be a very good example to examine this problem as they experienced both huge social transformations and re-stratification. Followed by these transformations were a weakening impact of official ideology on people. Besides, as the educated youth approach retiring age and their life more or less settled, time is also ripe to attempt the challenge. Existing studies in collective memory of educated youth do not take effort to differentiate educated youths by their family backgrounds(jiating chushen 家庭出身/jiating chengfen 家庭成分) nor their social status. However, many accounts in academia suggested that family class backgrounds had significant impact on the life course of educated youths, though they were just suggestive. Furthermore, as China underwent drastic socioeconomic transformations since 1970s and the educated youth re-stratified, a changing identity and self-perceived status can be expected. By collecting their life histories through semi-structured interviews and analyzing the ontological and public narratives of zhiqing’s life histories, this exploratory research aims to find out how family background and current status affects the memory structure and thus the identity construction of educated youth in China in the days of economic transformation. / 集體記憶研究對於社會轉型與社會地位變化如何共同影响同一群体的集體記憶以及身份建構研究不足，因為社會轉型與分層的影響需要時間才能觀察到。知青記憶研究正好是一個很好的範例，因為知青本身既經歷了社會轉型，也經歷了社會地位的變化。此外如今知青步入退休階段，生活以及身份較為穩定，亦解決了上述的分層、社會變化的時間問題。關於知青記憶的現有研究並沒有把知青進行家庭出身（又稱家庭成分）的劃分。然而學界一些研究表明，家庭出身對知青的生命歷程有重大的影響。此外，自從中國在1970年代開始經濟與社會轉型以來，知青經歷了重新分流，而自我身份或亦會隨之改變。本探索研究希望通過搜集知青的口述生命史，分析其中的本體(ontological)与公共(public)敘事主題，來分析家庭成分與知青當前地位如何影響他們的記憶結構，從而一窺知青面對中國經濟轉型的時候如何建構他們的身份。 / Lin, Pik Man. / Thesis M.Phil. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2015. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-67). / Abstracts and appendix also in Chinese. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on 14, September, 2016). / Detailed summary in vernacular field only.

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Government and Public Administration

This study uses grounded theory method to explore how effective China's social policy in promoting social integration through an investigation of the social consequences of youth unemployment in Shanghai. Research questions include: What is the impact of unemployment on the social integration of young people in Shanghai? What are the roles of state welfare institution and family system in the influencing process? The results show that the unemployed young persons in Shanghai face the risks of social exclusion in their lives, such as, access to state welfare, economic condition, consumption, leisure activities, time structure, social relations, and life transition. The reason for the emergence of these risks is that the state gives the highest priority to system integration and shifts its unemployment protection obligation to the family without well-developed family-supportive polices to assure and promote the realization of the protecting function of family. Thus, under the current framework of social policy, family becomes the primary social institution to promote social integration among the unemployed youth. However, the realization of family protecting function is not automatic inevitable, but a negotiated consequence of the harmonic interaction among family economic resource, family structure, family obligation and family relationship. The failure of family support would make the young unemployed socially excluded. This study suggests that China's social policy should emphasize both system integration as well as social integration: establishing the social right value based upon fair reciprocity of rights and responsibilities, formulating family-supportive polices, and applying the perspective of "new social policy" to broaden the scope of social policy interventions. / 曾群. / 論文(哲學博士)--香港中文大學, 2005. / 參考文獻(p. 251-267). / Adviser: Ngan-pun Ngai. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-07, Section: A, page: 2756. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts also in English. / School code: 1307. / Lun wen (Zhe xue bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2005. / Can kao wen xian (p. 251-267). / Zeng Qun.