Social Psychological Adaptation: A Case Study of the of Migrant Muslims in Lanzhou City, China

Xiang Gao,Hehe Liao

doi:10.4236/jss.2016.48014

Abstract

Based on information from 542 survey samples, the social psychological adaptation of Migrant Muslims in Lanzhou city of China is examined using quantitative methods. The results show that: 1) the social psychological adaptation of Migrant Muslims depends on both individual characteristics and unique religious and cultural traditions inherited within this group. In general, Migrant Muslims both have adapted to urban society in their psychology with a low level of adaptation and showed different degree of adaptation between different connotations of psychological adaptation; 2) their social psychological adaptation has changed with their age: relatively highly educated Migrant Muslims show obvious resistance in their psychological adaptation; the ethnic homogeneity (same religious culture, faith, customs, ethnicity and psychology), can serve to shorten the distance between Migrant Muslims and the native Muslims in Lanzhou city, leading to a sense of urban association and acknowledgement of self identity amongst these Migrant Muslims.

Highlights

Three million Migrant Muslims reside in China [1]
The psychological adaptation of Migrant Muslims depends on both individual characteristics and unique religious and cultural traditions inherited within this group
Migrant Muslims in Lanzhou city of China both have adapted to urban society in their psychology with a low level of adaptation and showed different degree of adaptation between different connotations of psychological adaptation

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Introduction

Three million Migrant Muslims reside in China [1]. Understanding the social phenomenon and process of migrant Muslim urban adaption is an inter-disciplinary study that involves Ethnology, Demography, Sociology, and Geography. Because of the inclusion of variables such as ethnic-religious culture, ethnic traditional customs, and ethnic psychology during their introduction to urbanization and modernization, How to cite this paper: Gao, X. and Liao, H.H. (2016) Social Psychological Adaptation: A Case Study of the of Migrant Muslims in Lanzhou City, China. The psychological adaptation of Migrant Muslims depends on both individual characteristics and unique religious and cultural traditions inherited within this group. The process of urban adaptation usually involves four segments: environment, economics, society, and cultural and social psychology [3]. Migrant Muslims possess a strong desire to reconstruct their habitual religious and cultural traditions within the city. Each dimension involves several parameters, and will compare using three-level scale, as an attempt to define and evaluate the status of Migrant Muslim’s urban social psychology

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