变与不变:中华三千年社会结构的政治社会学解读

Change or not to Change:Interpretation with Political Sociology of Chinese Social Structure of 3000 Years

三千年来,在具体的自然生态和社会生态背景下,形成了权力精英主导中国社会的格局。顶层的权力精英一方面倚重社会精英维护其统治,另一方面又为了统治的长久,抑制中下层权力精英和社会精英势力的恶性膨胀。今天,以权力精英主导社会的格局依然存在;但较之古代社会,又呈现出权力、经济、知识三大精英群体整合的态势。这使得整个社会体系越来越缺乏弹性,中华民族面临着严峻的挑战,主导着社会格局的权力精英的执政能力正经受着考验。

For 3000 years, the structure of Chinese society led by power elite has been formed under the concrete background of natural and social ecology. The power elite on the top, on one hand, rely on social elite to maintain their control, on the other hand, they restrain a malignant expansion of middle- and low-level power elite and social elite force so as to control longer. Today, the same structure still exists but compared with ancient societies, it shows the integration of the three elite groups of power, economy and knowledge. Due to this, the whole social system lacks flexibility, China faces a severe challenge and the elite＇s ruling power is being tested.