dc.description.abstract | A Study of Changes of Social Networks in Hakka Fishing Port—An Example of Yongang Fishing Port, Xinwu Township, Taoyuan County
Abstract
In 1990’s, in the only Hakka fishing port in Taiwan, Yongang Fishing Port in Xinwu, Hakka farmers, while free from farming work, worked diligently to set a new dimension thanks for being close to the sea. They also got engaged in fishery from agriculture and then further developed leisure business. This paper aims at study the social networks changes of these Hakka farmers from farming to fishery and again from fishery to business, including motivation of transfer, life connection, and relation networks, etc. How were these resources established and how did they affect the changes? What interactions and networks relations were there from the process of flow among levels? With observation and interviews, the research studies the social networks and the changes and analyzes, from relevant literature, relation networks and features of Hakka fishermen, how fishermen’s association connected fishermen and fishery merchants to build the best interaction relation for Hakka fishing port in group innovation. This is an issue worth pondering in ethnic group strategies and culture. Observation was made on fishery merchants and Hakka fishermen in Yongang Fishing Port in Xinwu from January to December 2008 for one year. In snow ball stratified sampling, in-depth interviews were made on social networks (Annex 2) with 28 fishermen to observe operation of connection relation of fishermen networks, characteristics of fishery merchants and networks changes. The paper is divided into five chapters. Chapter I is introduction and study structure. Chapter II describes background survey of social networks in Yongang Fishing Port. Chapter III illustrates the history networks of transference from Yongang Village to Yongang Fishing Port. Chapter IV analyzes the trend of transformation to leisure fishing port in Yongang. Chapter V focuses on diffusion future of group innovation networks of Hakka fishing port as the conclusion of this paper.
Keywords: Hakka fishing port, social networks changes, fishermen, leisure business, innovation networks
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