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Title:: Structural Factors in Urban Community Residents’ WeakParticipation in Public Cultural Services

Keywords:: urban community; public culture; public services; weak participation; structural factors

Abstract:: In the practice of urban community public cultural services, the problem of residents’ weak participation is increasingly serious, which has become a special field shaped by several structural factors. In such a complex society as today’s China where traditional customs coexist, conflict and integrate with the modern thoughts, the detraditionalization has caused too much anxiety and substantially weakened citizens’ willingness to participate in community activities, and the un-correlative neighborhood relation has further destroyed the field in which its residents get themselves involved in the community affairs. Following this logical line, it is easy to see that the structure of this domain are actually determined by the structural contradictions arising from the social stratification, the diversity of cultural taste and the single type of public culture supplies. In this domain, the lack of institutional texts regulating community public cultural services participation and the poor implementation of related policies have made further solidified the community residents’ weak participation in community activities. Therefore, due to the combined effects of this series of structural factors, the obstacles to community residents’ participation in community public culture activities is very strong, and removing these obstacles is the key to solving the problem at issue.