【作者】 白莉；

【导师】 陈晓龙；

【作者基本信息】 西北师范大学 ， 社会学， 2005， 硕士

【摘要】 彩礼作为一种独特的社会现象,根植于中国传统文化之中,存活于乡土社会的土壤之上,有着深刻的社会文化根源。本文以陇东W村的实地调查资料为基础,结合前人对彩礼的研究,以婚姻从“合二姓之好”向关注婚姻当事人的利益转变为背景,以新郎新娘在婚姻缔结中的独立性、自主性不断增强为切入点,从文化社会学的角度,探讨了陇东农村彩礼问题。本文将陇东农村彩礼分为:礼钱、见面礼、二程和折一四大类,描述了陇东农村彩礼现状,分析了陇东农村彩礼的功能、性质、上涨原因并预测了其发展趋势。和其他学者的观点相一致,陇东农村彩礼呈现上涨趋势;陇东农村彩礼既具有正功能又具有负功能:正功能主要是教育与传承功能、为小家庭奠定经济与社会基础的功能、凝聚功能与情感表达功能。负功能主要是限制婚姻自由、加重农村家庭负担、腐化农村社会风气、威胁农村社会稳定;陇东农村彩礼的性质从家庭之间财产转移向家庭之间财产转移和家庭内部财产继承并存转化;与彩礼的性质变化相适应,婚姻补偿理论无法单独解释现阶段陇东农村彩礼的复杂性和多样性,财产继承理论及其婚姻挤压理论有助于更好地解释陇东农村彩礼的变化,得出新郎新娘对彩礼的追求成为导致陇东农村彩礼上涨的新的因素。笔者研究得出,陇东农村彩礼在较长时期内将继续存在,彩礼中新郎新娘最终收受部分将逐渐增多,彩礼性质也将从家庭之间财产转移和家庭内部财产继承并存向家庭内部财产继承为主转化。更多还原

【Abstract】 Bride Price, a particular social phenomenon, is deeply rooted in traditional Chinese culture and long exists in the rural areas. Thus, it owns deep social and cultural origin. This paper, based on the field work of W village in East Gansu Province and the former studies, under the background that the marriage transforms from "the unity of two families" into the one paying more attention on the economic benefit of marriage two parties, from the viewpoint that the independency and decision-making power of the bride and groom become increasingly strengthened, deals with wedding price in rural areas of East Gansu Province from the perspective of cultural sociology. This paper divides the bride price into four categories: gift money especially for the bride family, a gift present to bride at the meeting, Er Cheng (money asked by the bride for furniture purchase and clothes for herself), Zhe Yi (half of the dowry paid by the husband family), describes the current situation of wedding price in rural areas of East Gansu Province, analyzes its function, innate character, cause of formation and predicts its developing tendency. The point of view presented in the paper, the same as that of other scholars, is that the bride price in rural areas of East Gansu Province shows the tendency of going up. It possesses not only positive function, which involves the function of education and inheritance, of laying a economic and social foundation for newly-built small family, of cohesion and emotion expression, but also negative function, which includes the function of limiting the freedom of marriage, aggravating the economic burden of rural families, corrupting the current tendencies in rural society, threatening the social stability. The nature of the bride price in rural areas of East Gansu Province is undergoing the transformation from the shift of property between families into the coexistence of the shift of property between families and the inheritance of property within the family, In accordance with the change of nature of the bride price, Marriage Compensation Theory could not singly explain the complexity and diversity of the bride price in rural areas of East Gansu Province. While Property Inheritance Theory and Marriage Squeezing Theory can help to better explain the change of the bride price in this area. The paper concludes that the bride and groom’s pursuit of the bride price is the new element which causes the rise of the bride price, the bride price will continue to exist in the long run, the money finally received by the bride and groomfrom the bride price will gradually increase, the nature of the bride price in rural areas of East Gansu Province will undergo the transformation from the coexistence of the shift of property between families and the inheritance of property within the family into the inheritance of property within the family as the main character.更多还原