Abstract: As economic globalization speeding up, the environment of life and work we depend on and the structure of our economic society have become more and more sensitive and weak. A very little hit can make the system disordered and broken. Experience shows that, a rather small thing may start an overall crisis if it's not dealed with in time at the very beginning. So, with the view of the reality of our country from the angles of sociology and management about crisis, the characteristics and classification of crisis, the characteristics of social crisis and the cause of the social crisis in transitional period of our country have been analyzed which are the fundamental problems drawing great attention in crisis management theory field.