ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the relationship between non-institutional factors and social distance, and pays special attention to the interplay between social discrimination, the evaluation of the social rationality of institutional policies, and social distance. It examines the relationship between social discrimination and social distance, and analyzes the relationship between social rationality and identification systems. The chapter aims at comparing the social distance of local urban residents and migrant workers from the following four selected areas: the level of understanding, the degree of comfort in their interactions, the intimacy between colleagues, and the frequency of socializing together. The variable of social distance includes factors at two levels: social psychological distance and interaction distance. Many researchers have noted that migrant workers are often discriminated by local urban residents in urban centers. Local urban residents and migrant workers have different opinions on the feasibility of different identification systems.
