当前,社会管理创新,中国特色社会管理体系,完善社会管理,等等,都成了热门话题,这些话题的核心概念在社会管理,但对社会管理这个概念本身的谈论并不多,笔者认为有必要对社会管理本身加以思考。现在对社会管理的理解有广义与狭义之分,广义社会管理是指由社会成员组成专门机构对社会的经济、政治和文化事务进行的统筹管理;而狭义的仅指在特定条件下,由权力部门授权对不能划归已有经济、政治和文化部门管理的公共事 At present, social management innovation, social management system with Chinese characteristics, improvement of social management, and so on, have become hot topics. The core concepts of these topics are in social management. However, there are not many discussions about the concept of social management itself. It is necessary to think about social management itself. At present, there is a broad and narrow sense of understanding of social management. Generalized social management refers to the overall management of the economic, political and cultural affairs of society by a specialized agency of social members. Narrowly, it refers only to under specific conditions, Authorities authorize public authorities that can not be assigned to the management of existing economic, political and cultural departments