"Stranger Society" appeals to civic-minded scholars that trust is the foundation

How can we hand in the "Stranger Society"?

This is a warm comic book: A peasant adopts 11 abandoned babies one after another. To take care of them, he has to work hard to cure lumbar spondylosis; a citizen sees a pair of mother and daughter in front of the car. He gave up avoiding and did not hesitate to use his own car to cling to the crashing car; a migrant worker went for 50 minutes every day to go home and looked after a stray old man, until 11 days later he contacted his family...

Slightly picked up, similar news in the media are many and many every day, and it is with you and me. Things are not large, but like a glimmer of sunshine, it seems like a grip on the truth. With water in your hands, get your clothes full of flowers. Thanks to a kind sympathy, kindness, trust and respect between strangers, the conscience of the society stands out one by one. When people say, "Began to believe in this world again," when the various words of praise in the media spill over, it may be worthwhile to look in a different dimension: How do we hold hands on "a stranger society"?

Sociologists believe that the necessary conditions for a stranger society include: increasing economic scale, increasing social mobility, increasing contact between people and strangers, and increasing social public services. As a result, we are standing at the "threshold" of this society. Whether we want it or not, we must face it and we must also enter it.

The Western scholar Ma Yin once put forward a formula: all the progressive social movements are basically the same in terms of “from identity to contract”. Looking at China before the modern times, the “identity consciousness” was relatively developed. In addition to the traditional “five ethical issues”, the same family, same surname, fellow countrymen, classmates, and students are all important social relationships. When people do things, they first think of relatives, friends, colleagues, and other acquaintances. They govern the political, economic and cultural activities of society publicly or covertly, legally or illegally. The contemporary society is a dynamic and open system. The irrationality of the identity relationship has become increasingly prominent. The expansion of the economic scale and the diversity of the social life have necessitated attaching to the “contract awareness” that is based on the law as the basic mode of regulation.

If people define a situation as real, then this situation will have a real impact. This is the famous "Thomas theorem" in sociology. Obviously, stranger society is affecting real life at all levels. From the transition of acquaintance society to a stranger society, from the perspective of the members of society, to complete the transition from the role of “identity to contract” in a certain sense, there are at least several necessary concepts: rational cognition, trust vision, individual Dignity, legal awareness.

Rational cognition is the premise. In a stranger society, people’s relationships are not as cold and ruthless as they are imaginary. Perhaps we cannot judge whether others are good or bad, but we can be a good person, and most people do exactly that. In the above news, farmers, passers-by, and migrant workers are among us. It is because of their strangeness that their stories make us feel warmer, satisfying, and happy. The acquaintance society has a good side and a bad side. The acquaintance does not give one person all the social interaction. In fact, the operation of the entire society is precisely based on strangers: our safety is given by strange police; our children are taught by strange teachers; our house is built by strange workers; we The vegetables are grown by strange farmers...

Trustfulness is the foundation. Believe it or not, this is not a problem. People's inertial thinking can not only produce numbness but also prevent misadjustment. "Do not talk to strangers", "No strangers call", "Do not open doors to strangers" ... When we treat everything with alert, skeptical attitude, the increase is the cost of running the entire society. It's the positive mood of people. There are scams in life, both between strangers and between acquaintances. In this way, we may learn to look at the world with a trustful look. On a large scale, the fundamental aspect of social morality is good. When you raise an old man, please be assured that he will not be deceitful. If he appears in doubt, the law will make a fair ruling. When you give a beggar, believe that he has a hard time, even if he is going to make a donation.

Individual dignity is the pursuit. Everyone thought of a dignified and decent life. Trust relations, finding acquaintances, asking grandfathers, admonishing grandmothers, and establishing such attachments among acquaintances, no matter whether they are dependent or dependent, will not have personal dignity. Unjustified means will be the result of injustice. What's more, in a social group, resources are always limited, and even if a person is acquired through various relationships, it is not justified and unreasonable. It also leads to emulation. It may be more clear when the same person is watching a show on tiptoes, but if everyone is like this, everyone will not be able to see clearly and will pay a price. Individuals seem to be rational behavior, but it is the group irrational. What the stranger society needs is an increasingly developed civic consciousness. It is the individual's independent existence, autonomous personality and life value that are pursued.

Legal awareness is guaranteed. Market economy is actually an economy ruled by law. At this stage, the supply of the entire social public service is still relatively inadequate, and the restriction and supervision of power have yet to be improved. At the same time, factors such as unfamiliarity with each other and strong mobility of people will also weaken the heterodox role of members of society. This gives sufficient reason to acquaintance society. If you want to truly follow the rules, you need to regulate the behavior of each member of society with the authority of the law. In a society that needs to collaborate with each other, it is only the law that can hold countless independent and equal individuals together. In fact, only an impersonal system such as law can treat everyone with equal treatment, and it can be embodied in various forms of social interaction such as exchange, cooperation, conflict, competition, and enforcement.

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