"Householding"in Flux:The Daily Presentation of Farmers"Family Urbanization"in Counties
With the economic and social development of counties and the continuous improvement of urban construction,the migration of rural families to county towns has become a common social fact Based on a field investigation in Luoshan County,Henan Province,this paper takes"householding"as the focal point and explores the practical forms and intrinsic logic of"family urbanization"of farmers from the perspective of daily life.The study finds that farmer families are constantly undergoing spatiotemporal changes during urban-rural migration.Driven by economic motives,they enter cities to accumulate economic capital and then return to their hometown counties under the guidance of family needs.The order of"householding"presents significant flux characteristics,meeting the increasingly complex functional needs of farmers'families through urban-rural mobility,intergenerational cooperation,and balancing work and agriculture.This has shaped a flexible family production and living model that spans across the three domains of"city-county-town".In the context of county urbanization,farmer families are deeply integrated into the county's social system,and"householding"is gradually transitioning towards urbanization.They exhibit a diverse and complex lifestyle,including the urbanization of residence,diversification of livelihoods,refined upbringing,and commodification of consumption."Family urbanization"is the process of families integrating into the county as an organic whole and moving towards modernization.This practice of independent urbanization,based on the family unit,embodies unique"life rationality",which allows families to flexibly adjust their forms and resource distribution according to their resource endowments and development needs.Families also strategically organize their production and reproduction activities and actively adapt to the life changes and the superposition of social risks brought about by urbanization.
Family UrbanizationHouseholdingFamily ReproductionModernization TransformationDaily Life
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