试析乡村精英在群体性冲突预防中的功能

群体性冲突源于社会矛盾的积累,避免冲突的关键在于及时化解现实性社会矛盾。此过程至少包含两种机制,即利益综合和矛盾协调。法理型权威的职能定位、以及当前社会矛盾的特性给予乡村社会精英在群体性冲突的预防方面发挥利益综合和矛盾协调功能的可能空间。不过,乡村社会精英发挥利益综合功能的范围主要限定于村内的个体、群体的利益;发挥矛盾协调功能的范围主要是民众—政治权威类型的现实性社会矛盾。

An Analysis of the Roles of Rural Elites in Preventing Group Conflicts

Group conflicts result from the accumulation of social problems. The key to avoid them is to resolve social problems in time, which contains at least two mechanisms, namely interest- integration and conflict- intermediation. The role of legal authority and the characteristic of social problems at present leave space for rural elites to function in avoiding group conflicts. However, the role of rural elites should be confined to combining profits of individuals and collectivity and mediating the differences between the mass and the government.