Damping Mechanism Of Change In Society

Since Shanghai opened port and have trade relations with the world markets, the modern social economic lives have had observably changes with the resultant force of the influence of western capitalism productive mode and the inner requests of the development of traditional productivity. At the same time, the social structure included colonies, organizations and systems of modern Shanghai, also began its transformation from tradition to modernization, which on the one hand released the bondage of productivity and accelerated the great accumulation of social physical fortune; and on the other hand, because of the polarization and recombination of basic factors of the social structure, the old structures were broken and the new one were still not steady that behaved as endlessly emerged social problems in the social lives. It was impossible to solve these social problems radically, which entirely different from the past, only depended on the traditional social security mainly consisted of the aid of the poor and the rescue to disasters. Consequently, it needed the emergence of a new social safety mechanism and the modern social security system emerged as the times required.In 1927, the government of the District of Shanghai came into existence and a series of social safety measures with modern contents were carried into execution gradually. Until the middle of 1930s, a set of nexus system of social security comprised with social relieve, social insurance and social welfare grew up an original rudiment. Although the effects of the enterprise of social security were terribly limited, such system ever played a quite essential role in the enhance of the rate of obtaining employment of social members and reducing the conflicts of different behalf colonies during the next about ten years. Whereas, in general, as the result of the hardship of practice, the effects of the social security on the father developments of shanghai modernization were obviously slender, which included many inside reasons not only the lower level factors, such as the economic decline, political corruption and the west intervene, but also the latent law of contradiction of that put up inthe course of modernization practice of modern China.