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Who Pays For The Food Safety?

Posted on:2012-10-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:B Q ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2217330368493841Subject:Sociology
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Food security had must become an important livelihood issues while China started a new phase of development for building a well-off society in an all-round way. In recent years, frequent food safety has become a social problem can not be ignored. However, sociology from the date of production of the reality and theory of care, research and study of traditional content, will be regarded as an important social issues sociology topics. Moment, just because of sociology often research on food safety issues, it is bound to its mission and the academic disciplines of responsibility.Beyond all question, food safety issues are not should be ignored during the process of social development, and food safety incident is the concentrated expression of this social problem. So, sociology provides us with an effective research paradigm of food safety incidents and basic guidelines which has strongly reality caring, rigorous empirical spirit, the system's ability to reflect and scientific research methods. As is well known, as a typical representative of food safety incidents, Sanlu milk powder incident has lots of characteristics, such as lasting long, wide range of interaction of the main complex, the result was obvious social characteristics. In this paper, Sanlu milk powder incident, is to understand how the event is under the action of various forces, development and end, with what kind of dynamic picture, showing what kind of structural elements. And then, through the event itself to examine the social environment in which events occurred, looking for the social mechanism that food safety incident taked place.The paper based on the dynamic scenario of recovery which the occurrence, development, evolution, the end of the Sanlu milk powder incident. Meanwhile, the background of the melamine added to milk was taked into consideration and analyzed the risk scenario that is full of security risks during the flow of milk and the logic of collective action under the trade the formation of the unspoken rules. Finally, It is apparent to show Sanlu milk powder incident reconstruction and structured elements.The study found that there is the inevitability of the Sanlu milk powder incident occurrence, because of the unique social structure and is the comprehensive result of many factors. Obviously, consumer culture of media environment and the social structure of the "bad order situation," is the source of the Sanlu milk powder incident. Simultaneously, the existence of loopholes in conversion technology of national standards is the basis for this event, and lack of regulation play a catalytic role.Additionally, governance handled structure of the event and its lacked of supervision is the fuse during the process of the Sanlu milk powder incident and the lack of social conscience is the direct cause of this event in the industry and the business. In short, Sanlu milk powder incident impact will be profound as its reflecting China's current food safety incidents which occurred in the social environment and social mechanisms to promote the birth of Forced type of refom with a heavy price.
Keywords/Search Tags:food safety, events, social structure, system
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