On The Function Of Leisure For Social Harmony From The Perspective Of Conflict Theory

As the route to human welfare and social harmony. Leisure is an effective path which will mitigate social conflicts, promote the comprehensive development of human and build a harmonious society. Leisure is that people do their favorite things in free time, which also will be beneficial to ourselves, others and society. Then man will be in harmony with himself, society as well as nature by leisure. Leisure is characteristic of freedom, culture, education and harmony. Because of leisure's unique humanism, social and ecological value, it possesses inherent consistency with the socialist harmonious society. So leisure becomes a harmonious factor that can promote harmonious and smooth development of society.Social conflict theorists have discussed causes, types, properties and solutions of social conflicts, which helps us to analyze our country's social conflicts in transition. Through analysis of conflicts in all. fields such as economy, politics, community, culture and ecology, we finds that our country's social conflicts in transition mainly belong to valid and nonantagonistic interest conflicts caused by material reasons. So long as we take all kinds of measures and means effectively, will reduce social inharmonious elements to the full, and thus increase social harmonious factors to promote social development concordantly. In above all kinds of measures and means, leisure is the important way that it can alleviate social conflicts to advantage and further social harmonious development. Social harmony's function of leisure is achieved by main five mechanisms as well as benefit-adjusting, demand-expressing, ideological security, public services and benefit-circumventing. These mechanisms are also embodied on economy, politics, culture, community and ecology etc. Firstly, leisure can adjust material interests and then alleviate economic conflicts. Secondly, it can encourage people from all walks of life to participate leisure and then optimize political environment. Thirdly, it also can cultivate leisure civilization and perfect populace personality. Fourthly, it also can promote relations of the neighborhood and community to development smoothly, and then unite with all the forces that we can get to build a harmonious society. Finally, it can help us to develop a habit of green leisure consumption and build our ecological civilizations etc.