农村老年协会赋权老年人之途径探索

(闽南师范大学 法学与公共管理学院 乡村振兴战略研究院,福建 漳州 363000)

农村老年人; 赋权; 老年协会

An Exploration of the Means of Rural Elderly Associations to Empower the Old People
QIU Wen-wen

(School of Law and Public Management College, Rural Vitalization Strategy Institute, Minnan Normal University, Zhangzhou 363000, China)

rural area the old people; empowerment; elderly associations

DOI: 10.15986/j.1008-7192.2019.04.012

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农村社会变迁过程中老年人经历了权威的急剧衰落,进而导致了他们各方面的弱势。从对赋权概念的解读可以看出,赋权所欲达到的目标和实践方式与农村老年人所面对的权威衰落的问题正契合,可以通过对农村老年人赋权来改善权威衰退所带来的不利处境。在当今农村群众组织中老年协会是一股不容小觑的力量,以老年协会为基础的农村老年人赋权途径可以从三个层次进行构建:在个体层次上激发老年人的潜能,在团体层次上增进老年人的自助、互助和参与,在社区层次上为老人倡导和提升老人的批判意识。这一赋权探索启示我们:政府应支持农村老年协会的发展、农村老年协会应加强能力建设,以老年协会为基础的农村老年人赋权途径要从三个层次进行全方位构建。

In the process of rural social change, the old people have experienced a sharp decline in authority, which leads to their weakness in every way. The interpretation of the empowerment concepts indicates that the goal and the practice of the empowerment accord with the solution of the decline of rural elderly authority and that the disadvantage caused by the authority decline can be overcome by means of empowering rural old people. Of current rural mass organizations elderly associations become the force which should not be neglected. The rural elderly associations can empower the old people in the way of stimulating their potential at individual level, improving their awareness of self-help, mutual-aid and participation at group level, and advocating and enhancing their critical consciousness at community level. The study of the empowerment means also points out the importance of the government support to the development of rural elderly associations, the strengthening of the capacity building of rural elderly associations, and the all-round construction to empower the rural old people by means of the elderly associations.