Abstract
The new concept of “Beehive Society” proposed here is corresponding to the term “umbrella society” that was put forward by the author in 2014. This article analyzes basic structure and functions of five types of “beehives” from two categories through two perspectives of employment and management, including chain type, net type beehives of employees, and family, value chain, native ethnic centered beehives of manager. “Beehive society” has no such power or resourcesdue to its folk nature, it can only achieve market space and development opportunity through its own efforts; it is more social and economical rather than being political. The common feature of the various “beehives” in the society is mutual benefit and win-win model; once the “beehives” turn into a group network or ethnic network, it can become economical, social as well as political, and has the power of resources allocation and marketization institutional change.
Highlights
Since Reform and Opening-up in 1980, China has become the second large economy in the world after thirty-year development; the economic growth has attracted a worldwide attention, and many scholars no matter domestic or abroad are allZ
There are four significant elements, which impact resource allocation and economical social development, what role or effect do they play in official society and folk society? In my opinion, “umbrella society” stands for government owns more power and resource; “beehive society” stands for common people achieve more market space and development opportunity through its own efforts without much power or resources
Why do we metaphor common people and their life as “bee” and “beehive”? Firstly, common people are industrious just like “bee” untiringly gathers honey, they depend on their bare hands and hard workings fighting for life no matter in hometown working as peasants or come to city
Summary
Since Reform and Opening-up in 1980, China has become the second large economy in the world after thirty-year development; the economic growth has attracted a worldwide attention, and many scholars no matter domestic or abroad are all. I proposed a new concept of “umbrella society” (Jijiao 2016) to analyze Chinese economical social structure transformation (especially market transformation) in 2014. In the process of transition from planned economy to market economy, the power and privilege shifted from manager to common producer, it allows common people to achieve higher beneficial opportunity and surplus allocation opportunity, which improved the labor enthusiasm; self-employed, vendor, private owner, blue-collar, white-collar worker, professional manager and freelancer are increasing We depict this common people’s high involvement of market development as “beehive society”, in other words, every person are building up their own relationship network-beehives through personal or family’s efforts. The “another invisible hand” theory analyze the function of social structure transformation through a sociological perspective, especially the social relationship and its impact on resource allocation and economical social development. The empirical materials and fieldwork study originate from my fieldwork investigate in recent decade, for exampel Tianjin investigate in 1995, Hainan and Guizhou investigate in 1996, minority group migration in Beijing and Shenzhen investigate in 2001, four cities investigate (Qingdao, Huhehaote, Kunming, Shenzhen) from 2007 to 2008, Hainan investigate from 2011 to 2012, Guizhou and Guangzhou investigate in 2013, etc
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