An Analysis of the Mechanism of College Students' “Involution” from the Perspective of Giddens' Modernity Theory

从吉登斯现代性理论视角透视大学生内卷原因机制

Within the university field, the phenomenon of student involution has intensified. Grounded in a Marxist framework and viewed through the lens of Giddens' theory of modernity, involution may be interpreted as a pathological manifestation of market logic and its consequent alienation of students. Market logic infiltrates the university field through the separation of time and space, situating students within a risk environment. By leveraging symbolic systems, it reshapes students' self-identity, transmuting their practices of self-actualization into a cyclical process of commodity reproduction. This mechanism is perpetuated through surveillance and instrumental goals. The topological structure of involution operates as follows: market logic functions as the driving force, the risk environment generates counteractive constraints, self-identity and actualization enable fluid adaptability, while surveillance and instrumental goals sustain directional continuity.

高校场域内，学生内卷日益严重，立足马克思主义立场，在吉登斯现代性理论的视域下，内卷可视为市场逻辑病理化运行及其对学生异化的表现形式。市场逻辑通过时空分离降临高校场域，将学生置于风险环境中，借由象征符号影响学生的自我认同，将学生自我实现的实践异化为商品再生产的运动，并用目的和监督保障这一过程的持续。内卷机制的拓扑结构是，以市场逻辑为驱力、风险环境为反作用力和约束力、自我认同和实现提供可流动性、监督和目的保证并维持流向。