中西社会结构各自发展的脉络

中西社会结构的对比,尤以费孝通先生提出的"差序格局"与"团体格局"最为经典。但它们只提供了中西对比的一横切面,极易忽略中西社会结构各自变迁发展的脉络。就西方而言,社会结构经历了从整体主义城邦到村落家族共同体,再到现代法治社会的变迁;就中国而言,则经历了从传统部落礼乐时代到乡土中国的差序格局,再到以平等原则重塑的差序格局的变迁发展过程。

On the Respective Developmental Course of Social Structures in China and Western Countries

"Grade structure" and "Group structure" put forward by Mr.Fei Xiao-tong is the most classical among all the theories about the comparison of social structures in China and western countries.However,they provide only a comparison in a particular period and tend to neglect the respective developmental course of social structure in China and the west.As far as the west is concerned,the social structure has undergone a change from the city-state of holism to the community of clan and village and thence to the m...