Study On The Social Construction Mechanism Of Bohai Oil Spill Event

In the view of social constructructvism, social problems are not only the purely objective existence, but the product of social construction. The process of "problematic" is actually a process of social constantly construction. Bohai Oil Spill, as the environmental problem, since it’s happen to cause social concern is the process of different social group construct and consensus, to a large degree.The study of social construction mechanism of Bohai oil spill mainly focus on that how could the event develop into a public-concerned problem when doing research on the problem. The problemization of Bohai oil spill actually is the contending and competitive process among different social groups. During the first occurrence of Bohai oil spill event, the main constructive subject include government, experts, scholars, mass media and the public. Their chief preoccupation is government conceals, mission and the influence of oil spill event. Because that different groups has different interests, the social groups construct the events in different ways. The process of Bohai oil sill construction showing that, it can be of public concern due to the joint construction of different social groups. Under the background of "the compensation didn’t contain Shandong fishermen", the fishermen in Shandong province has launched the struggle action for rights. "Transnational claims" makes the Bohai oil spill event to achieve the second concerns climax.Different social group behavior and its action logic affects the process of social construction. The media, the social elite and the fishermen are important factors that affect the event been constructed again. Due to the political channels gradually to open, the non-governmental environmental protection organization’s development, the lawyer’s public interest action, the fisherman’s environmental action and so on, that the Bohai oil spill event can be caused widespread concern again.The constructivism of Bohai oil spill event indicates that, because of the social definition and discourse analysis, oil spill event can be from social reality to social problem. In the period of social transition, the construction of Chinese environmental problems are tend to go through such a process:when the problem appears, experts and scholars will define it and then deliver it to the public discourse by civilians. After understand the facts, the media will make environment news, cooperate with both social elite and civil society to attract public attention. Then the public participation, environmental victim positive response. The central government attaches great importance to"environmental card", but for some interests, local government tend to weaken the influence of the problem by controlling the social media tools. Different from the western countries, under the path of government leading environmental development, the words of the initiative is often in the hands of the government. In our country, the fundamental way to solve environmental problems lies in the social attention and public participation.