社会分类与群体符号边界——以农民工社会分类问题为例

农民工社会分类的生成源于制度性的安排，一种基于城乡二元户籍分割制度的社会安排，包括先赋性的制度安排，后致性的教育水平、个人职业选择以及日常生活中的消费品味，其动力机制表现为最初的社会化和先天的类别化安排，这是群体符号边界的生成的最初动力；其次，这种社会分类形成于某种社会心理过程和心理机制，即通过社会认知系统、社会比较和自我类别化，完成再社会化或自我类别化运作，并通过行为的互动模式，进一步内化这种群体符号边界，实现这种群体符号边界的再生产；最后，社会分类是一种叙事逻辑、话语系统和符号指称进一步强化的结果，叙事逻辑、话语系统和符号指称通过社会建构和知识的再生产，达成了群体符号边界的“内固”和“强化”的过程。

Social Classification and Groups' Symbolic Boundaries: A Case Study of the Social Classification for Peasant Migrants

The social classification of peasant migrants originated from institutional arrangements, a kind of social arrangement for the need of a city-country residential registration division installed by prescribed institutional actions and affirmed by such acquired outcomes as educational levels, individuals’ occupational choices, and the consuming taste in daily living. Its dynamic mechanism resided in early socialization and prescribed arrangements, which was the original driving force for the formation of groups' symbolic boundaries. Secondly, social classification was also shaped by social psychological processes and mechanisms through the social cognition system and the operations of social comparison, self-categorization, re-socialization, and self-redefined classification. Such behaviors in interaction set into motion the internalizing process of the groups’ symbolic boundaries and brought about their reproduction. Finally, social classification was an outcome of the increasingly fortified narrative logic, discourse system, and symbolic signs. Through social construction and knowledge reproduction, this trio could secure the process to internally fortify and reinforce groups’ symbolic boundaries.