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Fukushima Nuclear Events Analysis Under The Risk-society Theory

Posted on:2013-08-13Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W T XuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2247330377452510Subject:Sociology
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European enlightenment and the industrial revolution have opened the modernity of humansocietie’s processing. In the early stage’s of modernity, it has been turned out itself bycapitalism, and spreaded to the world. Human society has been on the modernity of thehistory of society stage. But the history of modernity has also been with the history of the risk.Rational process is a disenchanting of the process, it has been getted rid of the super naturalforce and the worship of god, believed that the power of the human,and emphasize people’ssubjective status in social development and social control, opened the history of rationalguidance in the social practice. However, due to the human rational knowledge and humanpractice have historical limitation, human can not end of nature and their own understandingforever, people can never be totally control the full resultes of practice process. There hasbeen always some resultes that against human society by the negative consequences ofpractice. So the risks has been created, the risk has been responsed in people’s understandingreality field, so be born "risk"."Risk" means the concept of practice against people ownnegative consequences, so the practice of modernity in history is also the history of riskpractice. Economic risk, political risk and social risk, natural risks are risk practice reflectedin different areas of social. In the early stages of modernity people designed various kinds ofsocial system and organization responsed to this risk reality, and be successful, the risk ofproduction won the social legitimacy. So, in the modern society early stages, human societyhas been development and got to balance in two aspects, one is the social practice of materialproduction and industrial society system of practice forward continuously. Second is the riskof institutional protection by social practice ceaselessly.But the result of the development of industrial society has broken this balance, theconstantly improvement of the level of social productive forces, on one hand, make the socialmaterial wealth increased greatly, and the other hand, the social system designning makes the people’s basic material needs more and more get the social satisfaction; And on the other hand,is the risk rise so increasing that broke the range of people’s acceptability range, which hasbroke out the environmental risk,nuclear risk, poison risk, that as a representative of theglobal new risks. Risk increasingly become a universal concern.In human history, people forthe safety and quality of life needs first beyond the material needs became the first demand,more and more people around the "security needs" to organize and evolved into a socialsecurity needing-social, human society is to the second phase of modernity-"risk society"stage. But this shift has not been responsed by the social political system and the socialpractice, the production practice and social system which still carry on industrial society fieldof way to are continue operation. New risk becomes a kind of risk that can’t beunderstanding by sociel and can’t be cope. This social reality has been responed by theacademic, various social scholars have access to research in the risk of social risk society field,puts out some different kinds theories of social risks to deal with. There are three theoryviewpoints, which is system socialist view based on risk society, is social constructivismviewpoint based on the risk of cultural, and the practice of the theory based on marxismsocialist ideas. All kinds of theory has its rationality side, but its explanatory power has thecommon limitations, because the risks of social history stage social risk extreme complexity,the theory of social risk unable to complete all aspects of reasonable explanation. In theknowledge of risk, especially new risk, only combine all sorts of theory and complement eachother can be to complete the comprehensive understanding of risk. Therefore, this articlecomb risk society theory, based on the reality, with the Fukushima nuclear events forthe newrisk typical cases, trying to through a variety of theoretical perspectives to completefukushima nuclear risk events understanding of the human society for effective response tooffer beneficial reference for the risk.In this paper, through the literature and media,gatherring and collecting and a amount ofelevant risk society informatain, for social reality and risk fukushima risk events provide thebasis of comprehensive explanation. The research in this paper is looking forward tosearching the new period of modernity social risks and the effect to the reasonable control ofthe help, to alleviate the current grim risk inspire the reality.
Keywords/Search Tags:risk society, Fukushima nuclear events, new risks
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