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| January 2012 |
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| 由電視劇《大女當嫁》探析當代都市大齡 「剩女」婚戀的困窘 |
| Embarrassment of the 3S Girls towards Marriage in Contemporary Urban China: A Case Study of the TV Series Senior Girl Must Marry |
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| 作者 |
王蕾 |
| Author |
Lei WANG |
| 關鍵詞 |
剩女、擇偶梯度、婚姻擠壓 |
| Keywords |
3S girls, spouse-choosing scale, marriage squeeze |
| 摘要 |
本文以電視劇《大女當嫁》為例，探索中國都市大齡「剩女」陷入婚戀困境的社會問題。研究目的是期望通過對電視劇的探討，揭示造成這一社會問題的深層原因。本文運用社會學「擇偶梯度理論」和「社會交換理論」進行研究，並從社會文化角度探討「男高女低」婚配模式的歷史形成及其所導致的兩性擇偶標準的差異。本文發現，「婚姻結構性失調」是由兩性擇偶權的不平等導致，「剩女」現象產生的根本原因在於父權思想和性別等級制度。 |
| Abstract |
This paper makes a scientific social analysis of the contemporary 3S (single, seventies, and stuck) girls in Chinese urban areas in terms of their embarrassment about and dilemma with marriage, by means of a case study of the TV series Senior Girl Must Marry, which has been hotly broadcasted in mainland China. We focus on these two questions: first, what is the cause of the 3S girls’ dilemma with marriage, and second, what is the gap between the TV script and China’s social reality? This research aims at finding the root reason why these excellent 3S girls in China have so much trouble finding a good marriage by analyzing the TV series. Based on sociology’s “spousechoosing scale theory” and “social exchange theory,” together with text analysis and a survey of the Chinese TV audience, this paper probes into the history of the traditional marriage pattern that has existed in China for the last 2,000 years, in which the man usually occupies a superior and advantageous position over the woman, from the perspective of social culture. This long-existing marriage pattern has led to differences between men and women in standards of choosing spouses. This paper argues that this “imbalance of marriage structure” should be attributed to the inequality between men and women in choosing spouses. The phenomenon of “3S girls” ultimately reflects the patriarchal concept and the inequality of men and women in China. Therefore, traditional marriage and spouse-choosing patterns must be changed before the problem of 3S girls can be solved. That is to say, the concept that males are superior to and enjoy a higher status than females must be changed, and at the same time the social division of labor, which confines Chinese women to the household, must also be changed. In this way, Chinese women will enjoy higher economic and political status and thus become equal in choosing spouses.
本文引用格式
王蕾(2012)。〈由電視劇《大女當嫁》探析當代都市大齡「剩女」婚戀的困窘〉。《傳播與社會學刊》，第19 期，頁77–104。
Citation of this article:
Wang, L. (2012). Embarrassment of the 3S Girls towards Marriage in Contemporary Urban China: A Case Study of the TV Series "Senior Girl Must Marry”. Communication & Society, 19, 77–104.
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