当代中国正处在一个社会急剧变迁的时期。经济的高速发展,社会体制的持续转型,造成了社会“结构失衡”和“阶层断裂”(孙立平,2003,2004),大量社会问题和社会矛盾不断出现、积累和再生产,规模化的群体性事件、集体抗争事件在各地不断爆发,当代中国社会面临着种种结构性风险和挑战。社会学者刘能(2008)指出,这些风险与挑战分布在 Contemporary China is in a period of rapid social change. The rapid economic development and the continuous transformation of the social system have led to the social “structural imbalances” and “stratum breaks” (Sun Liping, 2003 and 2004). Many social problems and social conflicts have emerged continuously, accumulated and reproduced, and scaled up In the mass incidents, the mass protests broke out everywhere and the contemporary Chinese society is faced with various structural risks and challenges. Sociologist Liu Neng (2008) pointed out that these risks and challenges are distributed