The Social Construction Of The China Aids Research

AIDS has stretched in China for 22 years.The discussions about AIDS have already changed from the medicine perspective to humanities perspective.Even in the humanities perspective,the social construction on AIDS in China has not been paid enough attention to for a long time.Based on the theory of social construction,the thesis studies AIDS problem and considers that AIDS problem not only exists in the form of a society object and as an independent social situation,but also is in the form of a social process.The AIDS problem is the common product coupled by the social action,economy and culture.In order to discuss AIDS problem,the construction of the different social actors and interaction between AIDS and the social economy-culture factors has been studied in the thesis.In the social actors,AIDS/HIV infections,the mass media and the government are selected to study construction of the identity,the establishment of media discourse and the game of the government between the public and individual interests.The attitude of public to AIDS/HIV has been influenced by the mainstream discourse of the mass media and the government in lack of AIDS/HIV.In the social economy-cultural factors,poverty is not the direct cause to form AIDS,but is the important cause to the spread of AIDS.Also the epidemic of AIDS can aggravate poverty in the depth and breadth.In the social and cultural aspects,AIDS like other diseases is closely related to the certain social and cultural behaviors of humans and the realization of the human to AIDS is full of the social and cultural significance.On the hand, the epidemic of AIDS is closely linked to social cultural behavior;on the other hand,the social cultural beliefs,ideas and values are the important backgrounds in awareness of AIDS.The meanings of AIDS in form of race cultural,sexual cultural,gender sense and moral,have been described in the thesis.The four elements constitute the important background to the epidemic of AIDS in China.To solve AIDS problem,we must find the answer in the process of social construction. The society re-consultations is important to social re-construction of AIDS problem.