社会转型背景下价值观多元化的内在动因探析

Social Transformation in China and the Internal Causes of Value Diversification

当代中国社会发展处于由传统到现代的转型期,与此相应,人们的价值观也处于激烈变动的时期。这场发生于精神层面的价值观变革,像一场风暴将人们卷入其中,并使人深受困扰。各种相互矛盾抵牾的价值理念、原则和尺度同时共存于人们的头脑中,并体现在实践上,导致人们进退失据、举止错位和行为犹疑不定。人们在价值选择上无所适从,深陷于"没有选择的标准的存在主义的焦虑"之中。因此,剖析价值观多元化的原因,是我们面对问题、解决价值困惑及完成人的自我塑造的重要前提。具体来说,价值观多元化的内在动因表现为三个方面:绝对价值陨落引起的价值分化;生存方式的变化导致的价值诉求的多样化;政府利益导向、制度导向和心理导向的冲突导致的价值取向的多样化。

During the peorid of transformation from the traditional to the modern, people＇s values are now facing violent changes. The coxistence of various contradictory values, principles and criteria results in hopeless positions, unacceptable behavior or hesitation, which involve people in ＂existential anxiety without any selection critria＂. Clear interpretation of the causes of value diversification is a significant pre-condition to solve the problem of value confusion and realize self-fulfillment. The internal causes of value diversification in clue the following three points： value disintegration due to the degeneration of absolute values; value appeal diversification due to the change of life style; diversified value orientation due to the conflicts between governmental interest, social systems and individual psychoreaction.