权力作用下中国城市居民的纠纷卷入与应对

社会纠纷始终是社会学关注的重要议题。本文在现有关于社会纠纷的研究基础上，以权力为核心概念，从地位结构观和网络结构观两种理论视角出发，试图提出“权力的强制性及传导机制” 这一理论框架，分析当前中国城市中，个体自身拥有的权力和个体社会网络中的权力对居民的纠纷卷入及其应对行为所产生的影响。CGSS2006的数据结果表明，第一，无论是个体自身的权力还是个体社会网络中的权力，都有助于居民规避社会纠纷；第二，无论是个体自身的权力还是来自其社会网络中的权力，居民占有的权力资源越多，就越可能使用正式渠道来应对纠纷。

Engaging in and Responding to Disputes by Chinese Urban Residents as a Function of Power

One important area in Sociology is civil disputes. With frequent social conflicts and a large number of civil disputes in current China, it is theoretically and practically meaningful to identify their mechanisms. Based on the existing research on civil disputes, this paper takes “power” as a core concept and proposes a theoretical framework of “power’s mandatory and transitive mechanisms” from the perspectives of status structure and network structure to analyze the impact of the power from the individual’s ego and the power from his/her social network on the involvement and responses in civil disputes. An analysis of the relevant variables in the Chinese General Social Survey 2006 (CGSS2006) showed the following results: Firstly, both individual’s ego power and social network power helped avoiding social disputes; and secondly, with either the ego power or the social network power, those with more power resources were the ones who were more likely to use formal channels to deal with disputes. This study has demonstrated that using power as a core concept in a theoretical perspective to decipher the involvement and responses in civil disputes is feasible. For urban residents, the process of engaging in the disputes and dealing with them is a process of power functioning in its full force.