The Coherence of Cognition and Identity of Villagers to Village Cadres: Case on the 334 Households in 15 Guangdong Villages
- 1 Department of Sociology, College of Public Management, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China
Abstract
About the case on the 334 households of 15 villages in Guangdong Province, the study aimed to discuss the coherence of villagers’ cognition and identity of the characteristics of village cadres. The study found that the core village cadres in the survey villages had the characteristics of male dominance, big surname dominant, relatively high educational level, and more than two consecutive terms. The villagers realized the village cadres were the person with great ability, and identity the person with great ability should be their cadres. There was a high coherence between villagers’ cognition and identity of village cadre types. The social fact of “governing villages by able people” will be strengthening and universalization by a series of systems.
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