关于所谓“英格尔斯现代化指标体系”的几点讨论

Analyses of the So-Called “Inkeles Index System of Modernization”

所谓“英格尔斯现代化指标体系”是一个在我国流传甚广的现代化评估指标体系。但人们对这个所谓“英格尔斯现代化指标体系”的理解和运用从名称到内容实际上都包含着不少讹误和不当之处。实际上 ,“英格尔斯现代化指标体系”不是由英格尔斯提出来的 ;“英格尔斯指标体系”不是一个用来评估“工业时代现代化”的指标体系 ;“英格尔斯指标体系”

The so-called “Inkeles index system of modernization” is a popular index system to evaluate modernization but there are some misunderstandings and misuses of the system from the name to the content. It shows in the following three aspects: the system is not put forward by Inkeles; it is not an index system to evaluate “the modernization in the industrial age”; it is not necessarily a defect for not forming a composite index of evaluation.