【作者简介】李松涛，上海大学社会学院

【文章来源】《社会学评论》2026年第2期

【内容提要】既有研究主要从规模经济效应、政府行为、城乡差异、城镇化与家庭的关系等视角探讨城镇化问题。本文则以上海市出租车司机为例，尝试进入流动人口的生活世界与内心世界，揭示我国人口城镇化过程的微观机制。来沪务工的出租车司机为助力子女完成学业、组建家庭而努力工作并进城购房，呈现出显著的家庭韧性与代际托举的特点。这一特点源于家庭内部的深层联结：一是成员间天然的情感牵挂；二是强烈的家庭责任感；三是生命延续与家庭传承驱动全家围绕购房等城镇化关键任务团结协作，并成为个体生命意义的重要来源。在既有城乡关系结构下，家庭情感、责任与代际传承共同成为城镇化的一大推动力，塑造了具有中国特色的城镇化路径。

【关键词】城镇化 / 城乡关系 / 流动人口 / 出租车司机

【全文链接】http://src.ruc.edu.cn/CN/Y2026/V14/I2/195

Lifting the Younger Generation into the City: Family Resilience and Inter-Generational Support in the Process of Population Urbanization

Abstract: While existing research has examined urbanization primarily through the lenses of economies of scale, government behavior, urban-rural disparities, and the relationship between urbanization and households, this study takes Shanghai taxi drivers as a case to enter the lived world and inner world of the floating population, revealing the micro-mechanisms of China’s population urbanization process. Migrant taxi drivers in Shanghai are motivated to work in the city to support their children’s education, family formation, and home purchases in urban areas, demonstrating remarkable family resilience and intergenerational support. This characteristic stems from deep-rooted bonds within the family: first, the natural emotional attachment among family members; second, the sacred sense of family responsibility that emerges from this attachment; and third, the life continuity and family legacy that drive the entire family to unite around key urbanization tasks such as home buying, which also becomes an important source of individual life meaning. Within the existing urban-rural structural relations, family emotion, responsibility, and intergenerational inheritance collectively serve as a significant driving force of urbanization, reflecting a distinctly Chinese path to urbanization.