Identity formation and its transformation of descendants of Mainlanders born in 1970s and 80s.

• Main Authors: Chia Hsin HU, 胡家欣
• Other Authors: Chia Ming Chang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/fqzt65

碩士 === 東吳大學 === 社會學系 === 102 === This paper, based on Mead and Erikson's theory of self-development and identity, try to investigate the descendants of Mainlanders who born in 1970s and 80s. How did they have their identity? And how did they transform their identity when they in the face of localization in Taiwan? They were born and grew up in critical time between Martial law’s late period and the lifting of the order’s early period. How did they deal with the situation when the mainstream ideology was different from theirs in Taiwan society? Seven descendants of Mainlanders were chosen as research participants based on the method of purposive sampling, and to do in-depth interview with them. Try to better understand their opinion and systematically answer the questions above. Accordingly, we can know the descendants of Mainlander’s identity mainly from family socialization. Family is very significant to their self and identity formation in early socialization stage. Party-state ideology is mainstream ideology in 1970s and 80s. Born in 1970s descendants of Mainlanders were deeply affected by the Party-state ideology. But born in 1980s were not affected by the Party-state ideology so powerful. After lifting of Martial law, Taiwan became a democratic society. The change makes their original identity different from mainstream ideology, and therefore they also transform their identity. Their identity change took for a long time, not overnight. On ethnic or national significance, they think they are Taiwanese and ROC nationals. On cultural significance, they think they are Chinese. These are different dimensions of identities, but no contradiction among them. Taiwanese, ROC nationals and Chinese can harmony for them. Their identity isn’t only one dimension, and they can have great diversity of a unified identity.