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Ethical Reflection On Local Government 's Public Crisis Governance From The Perspective Of Risk Society

Posted on:2016-12-21Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1106330473961483Subject:Basic principles of Marxism
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Public crisis is now generally faced by countries in the world of social problems, a profound impact on the development and progress of the society, public crisis happen frequently and cause damage has already become a challenge to our human society life is inevitable. Opportunities and risks coexist in the development of modern society, environmental turbulence, human reason limited science and technology and the development of the injected more uncertainty, more make a variety of public crisis has become the norm in the modern social environment.In the important period of social transformation in China, into the three periods of "stack" of social development important period, "three phase superposition" economic growth rate is entered into the phase shift and structural adjustment in early throes, stimulus in the digestion phase, this is China’s economic and social development is difficult to avoid an important and critical period, during this period, natural and social contradictions bottleneck constraints, the most prominent and most special, under the comprehensive influence of all kinds of incentive, it is easy to appear the economic disorder, social disorder, psychological imbalance, cause contradiction agglomeration, latent conflict and crisis. The occurrence of public crisis look from its internal cause, is not an independent factors at work, that is to say, is both accidental and inevitable, the induced factors not only natural factors, also somebody for factors, even by the outcome of combined action of both natural and human factors. Throughout the public crisis events that took place at home and abroad, it is easy to see that public crisis events mainly there are three basic performance:one is our common human crisis, which is induced by the natural factors of crisis event, such as floods, landslides, earthquake, landslides, mine, etc.; Second, crisis events have occurred in some areas, that is caused by human factors of public crisis, the crisis is mainly include local or global social contradictions and conflicts, such as a terrorist attack, food poisoning, hostage, local unrest, collective petitions, traffic accidents, etc.; Three from the surface, seems to be the general crisis events, natural disasters, but the main reason behind it is man-made crisis, such as landslides caused by traffic paralysis, powerful storms caused by crisis events such as crop failures, as a result of the medical and health conditions lead to a sudden public health crisis caused by epidemic diseases, and caused by human excessive deforestation lead to severe drought and soil and water loss, such as natural ecological disasters like the outbreak of debris flow events, not only has the natural factors, and human factors, is caused by the combination of two factors. From the point of all previous public crisis events, although events have big and small, have strong with the weak, but once it happened, will give people’s life and property security caused varying degrees of damage, especially caused people’s psychological panic, fear, etc., affect the national security and social stability. Crisis event occurs, it is not by man’s will transfer, effective prevention and governance of public crisis, minimize and reduce the crisis brings us all kinds of hazards and losses, become the domestic and foreign scholars of common concern to one of the major theoretical and practical problems.Main contradiction of the primary stage of socialism in China is the people’s growing material and cultural needs and the contradiction between the backward social of production, the main contradiction determines the basic task of the primary stage of socialism in our country is focus on the development of social productivity. At present, along with the social transformation, the social contradictions are increasingly diversified and complicated, a variety of signs that contemporary China faces many social risks, China enter the risk society is tangible. Risk society in contemporary China has three major characteristics:one is the social risk caused by artificial factors, shows the tendency of increasing. China is the world’s most populous country, sixth census data in 2010, according to the China’s population of 1.34 billion, accounting for the proportion of the world’s population is as high as 19%. The progress and development of human society, cannot leave us human beings to nature for all kinds of material, science and technology progress increasingly today, we continuously expand the scope of human activities, to ask for the material nature means more advanced, the impact on natural do more widely and more deeply, human frequent action process, in nature caused incalculable pressure, leading to social risk from the original natural dominant shift the risk caused by the uncertainty of human factors dominate human risk, social risk artificially showed a trend of increasing. Secondly, the risk of the risk of "institutionalized" and "institutionalized" intertwined and complex. Since modern times a series of system created for human development provides a realistic environment and normative framework, modern nation establishes a system of various provides protection for human safety, at the same time many system related to the capital, market creation and risk-taking provides incentives for people, but whether the risk orientation or safety orientation system, its own will bring another risk, namely dysfunctional risk, so that the risk of "institutionalized" into the risk of "institutionalized". In contemporary China, the formation of the risk society in essence is not only simple natural and social factors of problem or phenomenon, in essence, is the social system, political system, economic system, cultural system, the results of the comprehensive factors such as management system, in a sense the risk society is a kind of systemic risks. Three is risk influence of universality. German sociologist becker says, "since the mid 20th century, social mechanism in the industrial society has been faced with the unprecedented in the history of a possibility, that is a decision to the survival of humans may destroy us all life on this planet. Just this is sufficient to explain, in modern times has experienced in human history with us there is a fundamental difference in every era." From the development process of Chinese society, the formation of Chinese social risk is a combination of various complex contradictory factors results. Especially in the period of social transition in contemporary China, in front of not sound and perfect system and law, social contradictions and risks occur sometimes has been beyond our imagination, although not in trouble, but the risk is everywhere, if the lack of effective preventive measures, will be a major injury consequence. Risk occurrence and influence of field more and more widely in our country, involved in all fields of society, including political, economic, ecological, nationality, culture, security, and all aspects of social life, to enhance its influence and damage to force more and more widely. Risk society in contemporary China, the frequent public crisis events and the seriousness of the harm is also on the rise, become the influence and restrict China’s economic and social sustainable and healthy development of one of the important factors. In recent years our country public crisis events, its domain and range, covering the areas of politics, economy, social, cultural and natural areas, ecological areas and so on, the occurrence of crisis event is no longer a one-way, but a complex diversity. At present, with the deepening of the reform and opening up, China’s social structure, social organization, social interest structure and social thought idea profound changes, the major adjustment and all kinds of potential social contradictions fully exposed and emerge, old and new contradictions and problems are interwoven, mutual activation, some areas inevitably public crisis events. For example, with the improvement of the construction of city development and various eyesores, urban land appropriation is inevitable, the forced demolition of the government and the masses do not understand do not support the contradiction between easily escalate into social crisis event. And as judicial injustice, doctor-patient disputes, environmental pollution, food and drug safety problems, such as the boss docked migrant wages caused apparent conflicts increased, these may be found in certain factors lead to the new social public crisis events, affect social harmony and stability. At the same time, our country in recent years, the public crisis incidents and influence extent of damage done by the nature of the crisis event bad as not only presents the rising trend, and organized, violent and dangerous crisis events, transmissibility and complexity, mediatek sex crisis increased, directly endanger the security and stability of state and society. In the process of promoting the construction of socialist harmonious society, we need to all kinds of social problems and contradictions could trigger social risks, the social crisis have a more comprehensive understanding and grasp, and need to actively explore effective resolve risks, avoid crisis, an effective measure to promote the harmonious and stable. This paper is derived from the risk society theory of western countries were studied deeply, grasp its essence, reference to the "reasonable" ingredients, explore under the risk society in local government how to change the public crisis management is limited to traditional thinking and practice in the field of technology, from the ethical perspective system and the seeking of comprehensive governance of public crisis, which is from our own actions and practice the viewpoint of the influence of sex in today’s society of frequent public crisis in-depth and comprehensive reflection and thinking, and for building a harmonious socialist society under the risk society to provide a reference model, not only has high academic value, but also has important theory significance and the positive practical significance.Theoretically, this research at home and abroad on the basis of existing research, adhere to the basic theory and viewpoint of marxism, from the western risk society theory as the basic starting point, treat it as a phenomenon of observation and analysis of the contemporary Chinese social risk and crisis of a special kind of theoretical tools, further expand the research in today’s society the public crisis of governance in China, especially from the Angle of ethics, the local government public crisis governance in-depth studied and discussed, from the macro level to take on the public crisis events no longer harm and its governance, but from the perspective of ethics to in-depth study, put forward the important influence of ethical governance of public crisis events, some basic theory and the following conclusion:under the risk society in contemporary China man-made factors generally promote public crisis; The governance of local government public crisis facing multiple ethical dilemma; Conceptual ethical dilemmas, institutional ethical dilemmas, behavioral ethics dilemma, is the contemporary ethical obstacle to China’s local government public crisis management; Risk society in contemporary China local governments need to go beyond the market logic, the way of salvation out of the governance of public crisis. From this point of view, help to enrich and develop marxism theory of national and social management system, help to enrich the theory of risk society and public crisis management theory, in-depth study on how we risk society under the new trend of the contemporary Chinese public crisis, and how to pay more attention to the role of ethics in public crisis management research provides a more detailed information. From a practical point of view, this research to our country local government and its departments pay more attention to the impact of human factors in crisis prevention and governance, especially from the psychological counseling, psychological communication, harmonious construction, psychological services to understanding, reflection and thinking about the governance of public crisis events has certain enlightening and guiding significance, but also help local governments at all levels in the crisis after the incident, how to fully mobilize the broad masses of people to participate in the initiative and enthusiasm, especially from the aspects of subjective feeling to increase the participation of the general public, from the view of reduce the loss to reflect and think about the governance of public crisis, these aspects undoubtedly reflects the practical value and practical significance of this article. In short, the contemporary Chinese society, we are faced with the risk society, can be said to be the risk of international and domestic social transformation and the risk of mutual impact, all kinds of risk and crisis increasingly highlight, if we still in accordance with past practice, it is difficult to adapt to the new trend of social development, facing the new situation, the new situation, we need from a new Angle, namely from the perspective of ethics, the research of risk society of our country’s local government public crisis management, in this way, we can has a new understanding of risk society, strengthening risk consciousness, set up strong risk concept, rational and effective reflection practice behavior of the dangers of human nature, reduce man-made factors may cause the crisis, actively deal with all kinds of risk and crisis, avoid the negative impact and damage consequences of a crisis.This article adhere to marxism as a guide, in-depth analysis and study at the German sociologist ulrich beck and British sociologist Anthony giddens, the western capitalist countries represented by social scholars put forward the theory of risk society, comb, dialectic and systematic investigation and analysis on the basis of the marxist view and the theory of risk society theory as the analysis tool, to contemporary Chinese society faces risks and elaborates the present situation of crisis and countermeasures are discussed. The full text mainly has six chapters except the introduction. The first chapter mainly is analysis from the perspective of modernity risk society theory and the theory of public crisis and its logic. The second chapter analyzes our country present the basic characteristics of risk society and risk society under local government public crisis management in our country faces various challenges. The third chapter mainly analyzes the ethical value of public crisis, ethical characteristics, principles, and how the local government public crisis governance under the contemporary risk society for ethical review. The fourth chapter overview from the risk of contemporary Chinese social public crisis events and general reason, the local government public crisis management present situation assessment, the local government public crisis management from three aspects, such as ethical dilemma of in-depth analysis and research risk society in contemporary China local government public crisis management of the status quo and facing all kinds of ethical dilemmas. The fifth chapter mainly from the economic reasons, the concept of social history reason, system reason and individual reason and government officials reason, etc., risk analysis of the contemporary Chinese social ethical difficulties for local government public crisis management and its reason. Sixth chapter mainly from the perspective of governance countermeasure under the contemporary Chinese social risk of local government how to surpass the market logic, out of the public crisis management way of salvation, promote the construction of a harmonious socialist society.
Keywords/Search Tags:Risk Society, local Government, Crisis Management, Ethical Dilemmas, Reflection
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