热带地理Issue(1)：108-115,8.
中国中产阶层社会空间分异研究述评
Review on the Studies of Socio-Spatial Differentiation of the Middle Class in China
摘要
Abstract
In urban China,increasing socio-spatial differentiation echoes socio-spatial polarization. It presents the general dynamics of urban transition under globalization. The middle class is made up of professional and managerial workers with higher income and education levels, who affects political environment, labor market, housing choice, especially urban socio-spatial restructuring. Gentrification is described as the process by which residents from the higher social strata displace the original, yet poorer, inhabitants of the city. Gentrification has defined a world socio-spatial phenomenon. The correlativity study among the middle class, gentrification and the socio-spatial structure is one of the core research fields in western urban social geography. In the disciplines of geography, urban planning and sociology, a statistical analysis of the relevant studies since 1980s indicates the research progress has gone through three periods:In the first period, from 1980 to 1989, the research focused on the introduction of western theories of social class and debated on the definition of the middle class in China;In the second period, from 1990 to 2004, the research focused on the introduction of western theories of socio-spatial structure and the socio-spatial structure in China; In the third period, since the early 2000s, the research has emphasized empirical studies of socio-spatial structure and socio-spatial differentiation in transitional China. The domestic researchers pay more attention to residential differentiation, consuming behavior, social stratification theory, gated communities, and gentrification. Finally the paper examines the problems in the research and considers that in future research great importance should be attached to the social characteristics of the middle class, the dynamic mechanism between the middle class and gentrification, the middle class’s lifestyles in globalization such as the spatial-temporal structure of the middle class’s daily activities, trends of residential location, consumer behaviors and the middle class enclaves.关键词
中产阶层/中产阶层化/社会空间分异/中国Key words
the middle class/gentrification/socio-spatial differentiation/China分类
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边艳,周春山..中国中产阶层社会空间分异研究述评[J].热带地理,2014,(1):108-115,8.基金项目
国家自然科学基金 （）
