See The Trust Crisis In The Risk Society Through SARS

Since latter half of the 20th century, the height risk question of the modern society became the focus that academia paid close attention to. In the West, many famous social theoretician such as Bake, Anthony Giddens, Scott Rash and Roman all have engaged deep research in this field .and have formed the social theory about risk. These scholars study the modern societies from different angles, will all face the same conclusion unavoidably: Featuring outstandingly that has presented more and more factors not confirmed and some unexpected " side effects " in other words of risk of contemporary western society, the mankind will face the fierce social contradiction and serious crisis over the next several years. Risk social theory instead of theory of school a certain, is it is it examine from visual angle of risk closely contemporary great change of world referred to as to say to it would be better. The basic meaning of social risk means society's lost uncertainty. In fact, when the mankind is self-confident about his strong scientific and technological strength and completely organization control, a lot of sudden social incidents have already broken a lot of people to the beautiful reverie of the world in the future. No. 4 aircrew explosive incident, outburst of British mad cow disease, USA "9. 11"terrorist attack, the east of U.S.A.'s power failure, SARS and so on. People realize more and more disturbance from the uneasiness, increasing day by day: The modern society is " world ends known " , " deterministic end ", " uncertainty comes back to the modern society ". All these prove risk social theory have leading insight of development of society .on the other it increased the trust crisis problem in the risk society to the front. It become the great subject that academia has to study in theory. Now it has already formed some generous achievements. No matter Giddens and Bake from what angle launch own argument each, in fact, face a conclusion together: In the risk society, the uncertainty of following the social risk of the trust crisis is accompanied, the trust crisis of the risk society reflects the structural predicament of the risk society. These dissertate of Giddens and Bake is the most important theory resource when we think about this question. Some scholars have studied the social risk since the eighties of the 20th century too in our country, but a lot of scholars also only comment the social theory of the risk in guiding the meaning lain between. As a whole, or the study on social risk of domestic social educational circles is also not deep enough no matter abroad, just as Lu Man thought, even if today, risk first word still ambiguous and unclear. But SARS disturbance in 2003 has changed the situation with insufficient theoretical research to modern social risk and problem in the past, the realistic need strengthens the theoretical research of China's social risk problem under the globalization background urgently. This burst of disaster of SARS in 2003 has had a great impact on China and the people of the world, leave for shade of people still vast and hazy in heart of people that involve so far. The one that can rejoice is, this social crisis has already gone over, but there are far too many problems that it leaves us to continue studying. SARS is caused by the infectious disease directly, but it involve economy , politics , diplomatic and social crisis of the field that people's society lives ,etc. , stress that is shown as society's lost uncertainty, can regard it as a typical " social risk " incident from this meaning. SARS incident has especially shown the trust crisis question of the risk society especially. It is almost one year from the emergence of SARS epidemic situation to the end. During this period of time, the showing especially and dissolving diffusion , spread that have been following the epidemic situation all the time and removing of trust crisis, this is it believe in though sense suppress epidemic situation spread , it can offer the essential precondition to the suppressing effectively of epidemic situation to indicate fully. We can say, without reconstruction of the trust crisis in SARS crisis, the ones that may not have to SARS epidemic situation absolutely are suppressed effectively, not speak of solve effectively.Therefore, no matter people's trust crisis to the government and relevant systems, the interpersonal trust crisis of common people, the trust crisis of influencing each other in the whole societies caused of and the two, it has been the bottleneck influencing China to succeed in handling SARS incident finally all the time. In fact, the final elimination of SARS crisis depends on the effective settlement to these trust crises to a certain extent too. A country and the society will meet various questions and difficulty unavoidably in developing, especially always meet various kinds of accidents, the appearance of SARS epidemic situation is an incident that the public health happen suddenly in the most typical one. SARS the disturbance though directness to cause by infectious disease epidemic situation, but what it caused is a social trust crisis related to economy, politics, diplomatic and people's social extensive field of living a life etc. , can regard it as a typical " social risk " incident caused in modern society (risk society ) from this meaning. Chinese Government finally successful deal SARS, it is necessary to study and summarize experience, lessons and countermeasure measure. In view of this, SARS incident has provided the extremely good realistic material of the trust crisis problem in the risk society of research for us, firstly it can help us understand, absorb western risk trust crisis achievement of social theory, secondly it help us summarize the valuable experience and lessons that China is succeeding in handling SARS trust crisis. So, this research has certain theory value, have certain realistic meanings.