城市居民住房选择的社会分层效应分析——基于cgss2008数据-analysis on the social stratification effect of urban residents housing choice —— based on cgss 2008 data.docx

华 华 中 科 技 大 学 硕 士 学 位 论 文 II II Abstract Urban housing system in China has experienced the historical changes from the physical housing allocation system to the commoditized housing system since the reform and opening-up. Which makes the urbanites begin to own the freedom of housing choice, and at the same time, also brings the problem that unequal housing resource allocation. Based on this background, this paper shows a research on the social stratification effects of urbanites’ housing choices in transitional China, using the method of combing the normative analysis and the empirical research. Firstly, the mechanism of the social stratification effects of urbanites’ housing choices is explained based on the theories about transitional economics, housing choice and social stratification. Then, with the data of CGSS2008, using the method of latent class analysis and ordered Logit model, the objective social stratification effects and the subjective class identity effects of the urbanites’ housing choices are tested. The conclusions from this research can be generalized as that the urbanites’ housing choices have caused obvious social stratification effects, while these effects could be divided two aspects, one is the objective social stratification effects, the other is the subjective class identity effects. Specifically, (1) the roots causing the objective social stratification effects of the urbanites’ housing choices are the housing choose freedom to the urbanites and the double dominant mechanism to the housing resource allocation, a trend of stratification is shown beside the urbanites’ housing choices, that is, the probability of homeownership is greater to who owns a higher social class status, and not only inside the urbanites who own-occupy houses, but also inside the urbanites who rent houses, the probabilities of living in a better housing community and owning a large house are greater to who owns a higher social class status. (2) the roots causing the s