Sending Law to the Countryside and Conflicts between Villagers: A Rural Conflict Case from the Perspective of Anthropology

摘要

Since the implementation of the reform and opening up policy, the rural society has changed drastically, such as great changes in the social order of the countryside and weakening of the social association. However, conflicts between villagers also increased. The notion of "sending law to the countryside" is to enhance the legal awareness of the farmers, the reconstruction of rural social order will by path. In recent years, the law has been widely spread in rural areas. It has penetrated into every corner of the rural society, and plays an important role in the process of conflict resolution, but not always has a positive effect. In this paper, through a case about one conflict in a village in Shanxi, we need to approach the relationship about "Sending Law to the Countryside and Conflicts between Villagers" from a different angle.