简论齐美尔的社会冲突思想及其现实意义

On Simmel′s Social Conflict Thoughts and its Practical Significance

齐美尔认为,社会冲突是一种典型的社会形式,它是普遍存在和不可避免的。社会冲突有两种主要形式:作为手段的冲突与作为目的的冲突。社会冲突不仅有助于社会群体边界线的建立和维持,有利于社会矛盾的缓解,而且具有维持社会整体、提高社会整合度的功能。齐美尔的社会冲突思想,对于社会学理论的发展,对于人们解决现实社会中的矛盾与冲突,都有重要的影响与意义。

Social conflict was a universal and inevitable social form.The conflict of means and the conflict of end were the two typical forms of social conflicts,which were positive and functional to the social stability.Simmel′s social conflict thoughts had an important influence and significance to the development of social theory not only,but also to the solution of problems and conflicts in practical life.