Social Conflicts And Social Harmony

Social conflicts, as a basic action mode of socially inter-subjective interaction, has been a universal social phenomenon since the human society came into being, and developed together with the human society, which can make a great influence on the human social transition. Nowadays, the harmonious society has been the key phrase of social life in China even all over the world, while the existence of social conflicts, which is growing into a new problem for the government, is an inevitable phenomenon for China in the phase of reform and opening-up. It should be taken into serious consideration how the relation between social conflicts and social harmony should be treated and how social conflicts can be controlled and carried into the favorable course to achieve the goal of social harmony.As China is facing the transition phase from the planned economy to the market economy and from the traditional society to modern society, the typical crossover and clash between the new system and concept, and the old system and concept of transitional society increase the possibility of social conflicts. As a result, the conflicts between different interest groups are unavoidable as the interest regulation and reallocation of reform deepening. It is full of difficulties to enlarge opening-up and the conflicts accompanying the international communication and interaction occasionally take place, then social conflicts can be easily formed from the intense social competition and the existence of social problems. In a word, the current social circulation in China is in the neutral state due to the existence of various social conflicts, which needs to be paid much attention to, otherwise, it will fall into the vicious state.When the problem of the harmonious society construction is put forward, the premise of eliminating contradict and achieving harmony is set up, while the problem of conflicts is excluded in many academic documents focused on the harmonious society construction. In fact, a unique visual angle of look-in can be obtained according to the view of modern conflict theories on the harmonious society construction, for the harmonious society never means there is no social conflicts since society is a macrocosm of contradict which is likely to be characterized with the dual strain of conflicts and harmony. The concept that social conflicts offer all the evil but advantages to the society or there are no social conflicts in the harmonious society disobeys the development rule of society. Therefore, the analysis and research on the social conflict theories can offer an important reference to the harmonious society construction. Social conflicts can be offered an all-sided knowledge and effective countermeasures actively so as to lessen the disadvantages of social conflicts on social circulation and ensure the normal and harmonious development of society according to the research on the general theory of social conflicts as well as the relation between social conflicts and social harmony.The paper consists of four parts.The first part introduces to the basic theories of social conflicts, which mainly demonstrate the process of the social conflict theory's formation in western countries, introducing some scholars'ideas of the main representatives'social conflict theory in western countries, such as Ralf Dahrendorf, L. Acoser, Simmel, analyzing the structure and pattern of social conflicts as well as the basic characteristics of social conflicts, that is to say, the universality, the complexity, the timeliness and the variety, states the function of social conflicts on the positive and negative aspects.The second part is around social conflicts and the social harmony of the transition period in the contemporary China. In this part, the basic definition of the harmonious society is summarized, which holds that there is a distinctive difference between today's modern harmonious society to be constructed and the harmonious society the older generation had longed for. Then the relation between social conflicts and social harmony is discussed with the viewpoint of their interaction, meanwhile, the reflected figure of social conflicts in China can be summed up with conflicts in three parts--- politics, economy and culture. After that, the patterns of Chinese and western countries social conflict theory on handling social conflicts and the limitations are analyzed.The third part is the regulation conception of dealing with social conflicts and perfecting the harmonious society. In this part, facing social conflicts squarely and holding the idea of modern harmony of the reasonable conflicts together with harmony are put forward. Besides, making the fast economic development, coordinating the interest relation, adjusting the social structure and carrying forward the system innovation are also discussed.The forth part introuced the different ways of dealing with social conflicts in China and western country. analconceiving of the interest coordination in social transition, social mobility and the system of social control to deal with the conflicts of economic field are also expounded. At last, strengthening the advanced culture guiding and advocating the values of"centered on human beings"to deal with the conflicts of cultural field are expounded.