主导价值观与主流价值观辨证——兼论改革开放以来主流价值观的变迁

Dialectic Analysis of Dominent Value and Mainstream Value——With Respect to Changes in the Mainstream Value since the Reform and Implementation of Open-up Policy

长期以来,人们一直将"主导价值观"与"主流价值观"等同视之,而事实上,这两个概念有着本质的不同。主导价值观,就是在一个社会中占统治地位、对社会其他价值观及其发展方向和基本走向具有主导、引领和规范作用的价值观;而主流价值观则是指一个社会大多数民众即主流民众所信奉、或各种价值取向大体一致的价值观。区分这两种价值观,对于科学地分析和观察改革开放以来中国社会价值观的变迁,具有重要的方法论意义,也就是说,改革开放以来中国社会价值观的变迁,在本质上是主流价值观的变迁,而不是主导价值观的变迁。

For a long time people tend to consider the dominent value and the mainstream value as the same. However, these two concepts are fundamentally different. The dominent value refers to the value that takes the dominant position, and may perform the leading, guiding and normalizing functions to other values. The mainstream value, on the other hand, refers to the value held by the majority in a society or the value that more or less conforms to various other values. The author maintians that distinguishing these two may shed light on scientific analysis and observation of the changes in the Chinese social values since the reform and implementation of the open-up policy. Methodologically speaking, this is of great significance. In other words, changes in the Chinese social values in the process of reform and opening up to the outside world is in essence the changes in the mainstream value, not the dominent value.