“数字鸿沟”:当代社会阶层分析的新视角  

“Digital Divide” : A New Perspective for Analyzing Modern Social Stratification

作　　者：李升[1] 

机构地区：[1]中国人民大学社会与人口学院

出　　处：《社会》2006年第6期81-94,共14页Chinese Journal of Sociology

摘　　要：当代社会,随着信息技术的发展以及信息重要性的增强,以互联网等为基础的电子信息网络已经浸透于社会的各个领域之中,在产业、经济和社会中生成着一种新的信息场域,影响着人们的社会生活。本文从社会阶层的研究视角出发,透过“现代———后现代”的二维分析模式对信息及信息技术带来的“数字鸿沟”现象进行理论上的阐释,对其究竟是实现着“阶层化”还是“去阶层化”进行探讨,并对信息化高度发达的日本社会进行了“数字鸿沟”的实证分析。可以看出:信息、信息技术已经成为一种新的变量,并与社会阶层之间产生着密切的关系,重塑着社会阶层化机制。In contemporary society, with the development of the information technology and the rising essentiality in the information itself, Internet-based electronic information systems have penetrated every field of our world. These systems have produced a new range of information in the industry, economy, and communities, affecting people’s social lives. From the perspective of social stratification, this paper, via analyzing the dual “modernism-postmodernism,” theoretically explains the “digital divide” phenomenon resulting from information and information technology, discusses whether it is “stratifying” or “destratifying,” and finally, gives an empirical analysis of the “digital divide” in the highly informationalized Japanese society. Obviously, information with its technology has already become a new variable and, in its close relation to social strata, is now rebuilding the mechanism of social stratification.

关 键 词：数字鸿沟 现代化-后现代化 阶层化-击阶层化 

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