群体性事件研究的重要性及研究现状

群体性事件是目前在改革和发展过程中各种错综复杂的社会矛盾不断演变激化的结果。是一种超出现行社会规范的行为。如何正确认识和处置群体性事件，已成为我们必须重视和解决的一大课题。群体性事件的研究有助于社会稳定和提升政府的执政能力。境外专家对群体性事件的研究多集中在群体性事件的性质、类型、产生的原因等方面；而境内诸多学者、专家对群体性事件产生的原因、特点、表现形式和处置对策都做过一些有益的分析和研究。

The Importance of Group Incidents and the Status Quo of the Studies

Group incidents result from the very complicated social contradictions in the course of evolution and aggravation in the reform and development process, and are behaviors beyond the current norms of the society. How to correctly understand and deal with the group incidents has become a big issue that we must highlight and resolve. Studies on the group incidents are conducive to the social stability and improvement on the government＇ s ruling capacity. Foreign experts mainly focus on the studies of the essence, type, arising reason and other aspects of the group incidents, while many domestic scholars and experts have made some useful analyses and studies of the arising reasons, characteristics, presentation forms and tackling countermeasures of the group incidents.