摘要
通过对A青年空间的案例研究,本文力图呈现制度性个体化背景下中产阶层北漂青年所经历的双重生活。在高度竞争性的制度环境中,北漂青年一方面形成了适应功利型人生模式的奋斗自我,另一方面却对制度化的生活感到怀疑和失落,在制度依赖与自主需求之间挣扎。在青年空间中建构社会交往成为他们探寻“本真性自我”的方式。然而,青年空间中的社会交往以“反日常”为前提,本真性自我的建构往往成为一种悬置性体验,并且悖论式地遵循着制度化生活的逻辑。本文反思了现有文献对中国社会个体化的讨论中功利型取向的“奋斗个体”范式,丰富了对个体化进程中当代青年生活处境与主观世界的理解。
Youth space,a public space established by urban youth to facilitate conversations and spiritual exchanges,has proliferated in China since 2012.Through the participatory observation of Youth Space A and in-depth interviews with 20 participants,this article examines the double life experienced by middle-class migrant youth in Beijing under the institutionalized individualization.It argues that the highly competitive institutional environment,with the labor market as its core,has systematically pressured the migrant youth into a utilitarian institutionalized life model.Under the circumstance,young migrants,on the one hand,are“striving individuals”in order to adapt;on the other hand,they are deeply suspicious and despondent,struggling between institutional dependency and the need for autonomy.Constructing social interaction in youth space becomes their way of exploring their“authentic selves”.In Youth Space A,migrant youths build transient“pure relationships”between strangers and participate in public life through noncompetitive relations and highly spiritual conversations over topics on daily life reflections,intellectual engagement,and public concerns.In so doing,they constitute an“authentic self”that enables them to reveal their true inner selves and resist social constrains.However,the sociability in the youth space is set upon the premise of“anti-daily-life”that precludes its integration into everyday action,and is thus incapable of changing the established structure of daily life.In fact,to certain degree,it is confined by the logic of institutionalized life such as utility and instrumentality,thus reducing the self authenticity to a tangled,fragile,and placespecific experience for migrant youth.This study reflects on the utilitarian-oriented paradigm of“striving individual”in the discussion of the individualization of the Chinese society,and of the Chinese youth in particular.It helps to the understanding of the dual connotation of institutionalized individualization.In addition,by analyzing the relationship between public life and the authentic self,it sheds light on the issue of the publicity dilemma and its Chinese specificity in the process of individualization.
作者
周泽鹏
肖索未
ZHOU Zepeng;XIAO Suowei(School of Sociology,Beijing Normal University)
出处
《社会》
CSSCI
北大核心
2022年第4期104-133,共30页
Chinese Journal of Sociology
关键词
个体化
本真性
北漂青年
社会交往
individualization
authenticity
migrant youth
sociability
作者简介
肖索未,北京师范大学社会学院,E-mail:xiao@bnu.edu.cn
