What are the characteristics of China's social transition period

Characteristics of China's social transition period:

I. The transition process is long. China's agricultural civilization is very developed and its traditional culture has a long history, which has a profound influence on the development of the whole society and a powerful influence on people's ideology and way of life. Therefore, the process of replacing the traditional agricultural society by a modern industrial society is difficult to be completed in a short time.

At the same time, since China is the most populous country in the world, the realization of social transformation in such a huge economic and social body is a brand new historical subject, with neither ready-made historical experience nor the successful practices of other countries to learn from, and it is a subject to be explored completely alone. Thus, on the one hand, the influence of the traditional agrarian society is y rooted and will take a long time to be transformed.

On the other hand, the social transformation in China today is a new and unprecedented subject that requires a longer time to explore, and these two factors determine that it is a long process that cannot be accomplished overnight.

Second, the transition process is complex. The transformation of Chinese society began after the modernized Western society suffered a profound crisis and a series of shortcomings, so how to build on its strengths and avoid its weaknesses is a complex issue. This can make the social transformation of contemporary China less detour, but it also makes the process more complicated.

It can be said that before Chinese society could fully enjoy the positive fruits of modernization, the West had already begun its comprehensive and sharp criticism of modernization, and postmodernism in particular advocated the abandonment of modernity in order to avoid the destruction of mankind. This gap of the times further complicates the situation of our country's realization of modernization.

Third, the sharp contradictions in the transition. Western modern society began with the primitive accumulation of capitalism, and the conflict between traditional and modern civilizations in the West proceeded relatively gently.

But China's social transformation was initially exogenous, launched by foreign invaders with their powerful ships and cannons. Not only was it unable to gain primitive capital accumulation from colonial expansion as Western countries did, but on the contrary, it was itself an object of Western colonial expansion.

This has resulted in a state of intertwined ethnic and class contradictions in the process of social transformation. This situation is bound to affect the process of social transformation in contemporary China.

Fourth, the international environment in which the transformation is taking place is complex and volatile. Contemporary China's social transformation is taking place in a complex international environment. in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the dramatic changes in Eastern Europe, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world socialism suffered a serious setback.

This determines that the social transformation of contemporary China is advancing in a more complex and changing international landscape, and the uncertainty of the international landscape has increased the difficulty of the transformation. Therefore, to study social transformation in contemporary China, it is important to take the changing international environment into account and to recognize the resulting impact. The difficulty of social transformation in contemporary China is also manifested in the fact that it is being pushed forward against the background of economic globalization.

The mutual influences and constraints of the economies of the world's countries and regions have never been so strong, and the political cultures of various countries and nations also influence each other, making it impossible for any country or nation to survive and develop in isolation. The constraints of this situation are more obvious for the late-developing countries, which also directly shapes the opportunities and challenges in the social transformation of contemporary China.

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Major social risks during the period of social transformation

I. Institutional Risks

Many of the risks that China's society is facing at the current stage The more central source of risk is the structural level of the social system. Regarding the institutional risk, the current academic community usually understands it as the uncertainty of people's behavior due to the rapid change of the system, which is actually not an institutional risk but a risk of people's behavior.

The real sense of institutional risk is the system itself is expected to be the lack of function or deviation and lead to the possibility of social instability, which is specifically manifested in the existing system of injustice, the lack of a new system to deal with the risk of social risks brought about by the failure of the system's rules of operation, such as the gap between the rich and the poor, social security lagging behind, the problem of corruption, and so on.

Second, stratification risk

A just, reasonable and open social stratification structure is a prerequisite for the stability and development of modern society. Reasonable and appropriate social stratification and disparity can both stimulate social vitality and maintain social stability. However, if there is a tendency for the social class structure to become deformed, it will affect the fairness of competition and thus the stability of society.

Third, cultural and psychological risks

Cultural and psychological risks are mainly due to cultural confusion and psychological distortion caused by multiple reasons such as the short-sighted effect of economic growth, the lack of socialist core values and the clash of social multiculturalism, which will lead to the formation of various factors of social instability. It is undeniable that China's current economy has gained tremendous development, and at the same time, it has also brought about various risks at the cultural and psychological levels.

Economic growth has not brought about an improvement in people's living standards, on the contrary, the gap between the rich and the poor has gradually widened, and it is very easy for the public to produce a great contrast in psychology, social dissatisfaction, mistrust, disconnection, and anxiety will increase day by day, resulting in the emergence of hatred of the rich, hatred of the corrupt mentality and the resurgence of the egalitarianism mentality, which will increase the risk of social instability.

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