Rural Mass Incidents Causes And Countermeasures

In recent years, with further development of reform and open as well as themodernization, the social transformation is getting accelerate, the original pattern ofinterest is gradually being broken, new stakeholders are emerging, and a variety ofinterests are interwoven, many deep contradictions and problems are increasingprominent, especially the rural mass incidents related to the "Three Rural Issues"continues to grow, at the same time its influence is also escalating. Various socialphenomena reflected the rural mass incidents have become an active filed of research.Many scholars home and abroad have made a lot of insightful thoughts andcountermeasures for rural mass indents. The articles, on the basis of fully learning andabsorbing the existing domestic and international research, defines and analyses thecauses of the rural mass incidents from perspective of political participation, analysesand summarize the causes of the rural mass incidents, and tries to give some personalinsights and corresponding countermeasures and suggestion.To examine the rural mass incidents from perspective of political participation, wecan place it under the scope of political participation. Its nature belongs to thecontradictions among the people while having not antagonism. By the deep of analysis,and thinking of the nature and characteristics of the rural mass incidents, we can findthere is a lot of causes resulting in the rural mass incidents, and the main reasonsinclude the following aspects:(1)the channels for farmers to participate in politicsparticipation are not smooth enough.(2)low organization degree of farmersinstitutionalized participate on in politics;(3)the decline of administration credibility ofprimary government;(4)The incapability of farmers in political participation.In the functions of social conflict written by American sociologist Lewis Coser,the author puts certain demonstrations on the social function of social conflicts. Thebook views the mass incidents as the typical manifestation of social conflicts and deinstitutionalized political participation of a group of farmers, although it will cause acertain degree of harm to the rural social order, their aspirations also have a certain rationality, which specifically manifests at: it timely exposes the various contradictionso rural society, objectively reflects the farmers, willingness of political participationand the interests integration of the rural community, releases and all aviate some of therural social conflicts. This has an important guiding significant more comprehensiveand systematic understanding of the rural mass incidents. On the basis of a full datacollection and individual research on this issue, this article at tempts to put forward aseries of methods to solve the farmers’ political participation problem:(1)Consummating farmers’ institutionalized channels of political participation,establishing the effective communicating channels;(2)Improving the organizationlevel of farmers;(3)Reshaping the image of the primary government, enhancing thecredibility of government;(4)improving the farmers’ ability of institutionalizedpolitical participation.