世界现代化研究的三次浪潮

Three Waves of Studies on World Modernization

在20世纪后50年里,世界现代化理论研究大致经历了三个阶段。第一阶段是20世纪50—60年代的现代化研究,其主要成果是经典现代化理论。第二阶段是70—80年代的后现代化研究,包括对经典现代化理论的批评和发展,以及后现代主义和后现代化理论的兴起。第三阶段是80—90年代的新现代化研究,涌现了一批新的现代化理论,如生态现代化理论、再现代化理论和第二次现代化理论等。

The three classes could be set for the studies on modernization in the last half of 20th century. The first was the modernization research in the 1950s-1960s appeared in the America, and the classical modernization theory was the main achievement. The second was the post-modern studies in the 1970s-1980s mainly in the developed countries, including the criticism and developing of the classical theory, and the emerging of the post-modernism and post-modernization theory. The third was the new modernization research in 1980s-1990s (to update) in the world. Some new theories have been pushed such as the ecological modernization, reflexive modernization and the second modernization theory.