在现代化语境中，城市中的流动青年作为裹挟着多重张力与复杂关系的实践主体，不仅面临着特殊人生阶段中家庭与社会双重角色义务的转变，也要面临城乡之间社会与文化环境的差异。差异的存在与转变的要求催化出青年身份定位的多种可能，他们身份建构路径也在城市与乡村这一充满张力的解释框架中，具有了进行深入探讨的必要。对流动青年社会身份建构的研究能够为解读社会流动与社会结构变化提供有效的分析视角，在“人的城镇化”这一时代命题下具有着学理意义与实践价值。

“身份建构”是一个持续性的动态过程，这一过程既是个体能动建构的结果，也受客观社会结构的影响。本文试图回答的问题是，城市中流动青年的身份是如何建构的？这一建构过程中又存在着何种文化机制？文章主要使用马克斯·韦伯的身份概念来分析城市中流动青年建构身份的过程，首先分析了流动青年身份建构的社会背景与青年阶段的特殊性，进而以职业声望、消费方式和社会交往作为文化建构过程的三重维度，立体分析流动青年身份建构的实践逻辑与行动特点，并透视其中的文化机制。本文采取质性研究方法，以深度访谈法、参与观察法获得研究材料，并辅以文献法和跨文化研究方法，通过扎根理论对材料进行编码整理和分析。

本文认为，身份建构是流动青年在客观社会结构中获得自身位置的必要途径，在身份建构的过程中，职业依然发挥着基础作用，但不再是唯一凭据。随着职业声望建构机制的变化以及工作意义的缺失，流动青年职业身份的自我定位呈现出“降格”的特点，并将身份建构的重心向消费身份偏移。消费发挥了主客观地位建构之间的中介作用，填补了工作意义流失的缺口，流动青年消费的多样性也一定程度上蕴含着突破既有社会位置秩序的可能。而身份的生成和承认都是以社会交往为场所进行的，但城乡社会交往的双重边缘性与网络交往的碎片与流动性，使得流动青年所建构的身份以片段的、有条件的方式在社会交往中生效。由此，流动青年的身份建构内部的各个维度呈现出不一致、不统一的特点，各个维度的相互作用共同形构了流动青年的弹性身份。

In the context of modernization, floating youth in cities, as practical subjects wrapped in multiple tensions and complex relationships, not only face changes in the dual roles and obligations of family and society in special life stages, but also face the contradiction between social and cultural environments between urban and rural areas. The existence of differences and the requirements for transformation have catalyzed multiple possibilities for young people's status positioning. Their status construction paths are also in the tension-filled interpretive frameworks of city and county which makes it necessary to conduct in-depth exploration. Research on the social status construction of floating youth can provide an effective analytical perspective for interpreting social mobility and changes in social structure. It has academic significance and practical value under the era proposition of "human urbanization".

"Status construction" is a continuous and dynamic process. This process is not only the result of individual active construction, but also affected by the objective social structure. The question this article attempts to answer is, how are the status of floating youth constructed in the city? What kind of cultural mechanisms exist in its construction process? The article mainly uses Max Weber's concept of status to analyze the process of status construction of floating youth in the city. It first analyzes the social background of status construction of floating youth and the particularity of the youth stage, and then uses professional prestige, consumption patterns and social interactions as cultural constructs. The three dimensions of the process provide a three-dimensional analysis of the practical logic and action characteristics of the status construction of floating youth, and a perspective on the cultural mechanisms involved. This article adopts qualitative research methods, using in-depth interviews and participant observation methods to obtain research materials, supplemented by documentary methods and cross-cultural research methods, and coding, organizing and analyzing the materials through grounded theory.

This article believes that three-dimensional construction is a necessary way for floating youth to obtain their own position in the objective social structure. In the process of status construction, occupation still plays a basic role, but it is no longer the only credential. With the changes in the professional prestige construction mechanism and the lack of work meaning, the self-positioning of floating youth's professional status has shown the characteristics of "downgrading" and shifted the focus of status construction to consumer status. Consumption plays an intermediary role between subjective and objective status construction, filling the gap in the loss of work meaning. The diversity of consumption by floating youth also implies the possibility of breaking through the existing social status order to a certain extent. The generation and recognition of status are all carried out in social interactions. However, the dual marginality of urban and rural social interactions and the fragmentation and fluidity of online interactions make the status constructed by floating youth exist in society in a fragmented and conditional way. As a result, the various dimensions within the status construction of floating youth are inconsistent and disunified, and the interaction of each dimension jointly forms the flexible status of floating youth.