出路或陷阱:个体化视角下的少数民族现代化转型

Way out or Trap:Modernization Transformation of Ethnic Minorities from the Perspective of Individualization

当前,中国的少数民族社会正在经历不同程度的个体化变迁。由于以社群为特征的社会结构和文化机制被视为少数民族现代化转型的主要障碍之一,因而个体化对于打破这一困境,推动少数民族现代化发挥了积极作用。不过,研究也表明,个体化虽然在一定程度上促进了少数民族经济、社会的现代化,但也带来了诸多社会问题,不利于少数民族生态、经济、社会、文化的可持续发展,还有可能导致族群意识强化,引发族群矛盾冲突。

China’s ethnic minority societies are experiencing various degrees of individual change.Since the social structure and cultural mechanism characterized by the community are regarded as one of the main obstacles to the modernization of ethnic minorities,individualization plays an active role in breaking this predicament and promoting the modernization of ethnic minorities.However,the study also shows that although individualization promotes the economic and social modernization of ethnic minorities to a certain extent,it also brings about many social problems,which is not conducive to the sustainable ecological,economic,social and cultural development of ethnic minorities,and may lead to the strengthening of ethnic awareness and ethnic conflicts.