On Constructing Socialism Harmonious Society In The Vision Of Functionalism

Functionalism is one of the oldest and deepest west traditional sociality theories, as well as the important sociality research perspective and method. With the efforts by Comte, Spencer, Durkheim, Parsons, Merton, and Alexandria, the functionalism system has become a necessary and perfect theory perspective and research method. Functionalism emphasizes the macro-social system is constructed by subsystems, which play their respective functions contributed to social order, stability and balance. The macro-social research methods, which emphasis social system integration and coordination indicate important significance on constructing our socialist harmonious society. The 16th CPC National Congress has proposed contents on constructing our socialist harmonious society, which should be full of vigor and vitality, social equity, harmony and achieve interpersonal relationships, as well as stability of social order. The 17th CPC National Congress puts forward to developing our society with Chinese characters, that with the leadership of Chinese Communist Party, basing ourselves on the basic national conditions, taking our economic construction as the central task, sticking to the four principles, reform and opening up, liberating and development of the productive forces, consolidating and perfecting the socialist system, including building a socialist market economy, socialist democracy and socialist advanced culture, a socialist harmonious society and building a prosperous, democratic, civilized and harmonious modern socialist country. The construction of a harmonious society is a social developing model, with characters of the basic elements of organic, highly integrated state, the demands of social coordinated development and unified momentum and direction, as well as the standardized systems. It includes economic relations, political relations, cultural relations, and the equilibrium and harmonious relationships between society and nature. And it is also the social state of balance and stability, which including economic system, political system, social system and cultural system.The article holds the theoretical vision of functionalism, which emphasizes the social construction and integrity. Basing on our country's conditions, the article analyses the process of construction on socialism of Chinese characteristics, as well as implementing the scientific concept of development and the realization of a well-off society.The article is constructed by bellows: The first part gives the major source of the research, the status quo, as well as the basic research ideas.The second part of the article reviews systematically the progress of functionalism in west sociology, the major sociologists and the mainstream ideas, especially the theoretical significance on construction of our socialist harmonious society. It includes the sociologists such as Comte, Spencer, Durkheim, Parsons, Merton, and Alexander, and their contributions to functionalism and sociology.The third part states the profound meaning, characteristics and the requirements of our socialist harmonious society. From the vision of sociological functionalism, the construction of harmonious society should achieve social integration and order equilibrium, especially focus on the social macro-system and the subsystems play the necessary functions in maintaining the community sustainable development.The forth part shows how to construct our socialist harmonious society, which includes the harmonious economic system, political system, social system and cultural system. It also focuses on the relationships among the micro-systems and the macro integration.The last part is the conclusion.In the research, the author analyses the essential characteristics and functional requirements of constructing socialist harmonious society. The most important meaning of the article is based on functionalism and analyses the Chinese current conditions. And the analyses on the macro-system constructed by micro economic system, political system, social system and cultural system, as well as the relationships among them. But the most important and necessary part is how to construct our socialist harmonious society and the effective mechanism and methods.In related research, the domestic scholars has made enrich study on the subject, but on the other hand with the vision of functionalism was limited. To the author, the situation is not only the challenge but also the chance. Thus, the article has both the innovation and shortage for some degree. After all, the author hopes that the article will give us a new perspective on constructing our socialist harmonious society, as well as more researches, discussions and summaries.