【作者简介】朱荟，南开大学社会工作与社会政策系副教授，主要研究方向为人口政策、人口社会学；肖春卉，南开大学社会工作与社会政策系硕士研究生，主要研究方向为老年人口政策。

【文章来源】《社会建设》2023年第2期

【内容提要】作为源自社会互动的一个学理概念，老年社会参与发轫于西方社会，通常被视为一种有力的分析视角，而非确凿的操作化概念。在中国语境下，老年社会参与立足于积极应对人口老龄化国家战略，概念范畴呈现综融性，概念层次具有全景式，概念内容扩展至多维与多元。在积极老龄观的指引下，中国老年社会参与从宽泛的理念共识淬炼为明确的政策话语体系，历经40 余年的政策孕育、探索与实践推进，极具新时代中国的鲜明特色。无论是老年人主体性的再确立，还是兼具融入社会和参与建设的双重意涵，中国老年社会参与致力于形塑代际共同体，以消解老龄社会新形态的复杂张力，并为之注入全人群与全生命周期的社会动力。

【关键词】社会参与，老年，国家战略，政策推进，社会互动

【基金项目】国家社会科学基金青年项目“中国老年人社会参与的理论内涵、测量维度与政策应用研究”（20CRK013）。

【全文链接】https://shjs.ruc.edu.cn/CN/Y2023/V10/I02/37

From Social Interaction to National Strategy: Conceptual Expansionand Features in China of Social Participation of the Older People

Zhu Hui Xiao Chun-hui

Abstract: As a theoretical concept derived from social interaction, social participation of the elderly originatedin Western society, which is usually regarded as a powerful analytical perspective rather than a conclusiveoperational concept. In the Chinese context, the social participation of the elderly is based on the national strategyof actively coping with population aging. Under the guidance of active aging, the conceptual category is integrated,the conceptual level is panoramic, and the conceptual content is expanded to multiple dimensions. The participationof the elderly in China has been refined from a broad conceptual consensus to a clear policy discourse system. Aftermore than four decades of policy formulating, exploration, and practice, it is of distinctive Chinese characters in thenew era. Whether it is the re-establishment of the subjectivity of the elderly or the dual meaning of integrating intosociety and participating in construction, the participation of the elderly society in China is committed to shapingthe intergenerational community in order to eliminate the complex tension of the elderly society and inject the socialpower of the whole population and the whole life cycle into it.

Keywords: Social Participation; Old Age; National Strategy; Policy Promotion; Social Interaction