一、导论有关现代性(modernity)、法律与台湾社会的议题,比较难用简单的涂尔干(Emile Durkheim)的机械连带(mechanic solidarity)到有机连带(organic solidarity),突尼斯(Ferdinand T(o|¨)nnis)的共同体(Gemeinschaft)到社会(Gesellschaft),梅因爵士(Sir Henry Maine)的身份(status)到契约(contract),或者韦伯(Max Weber)的传统主义(Traditionalismus)到理性主义(Rationalismus)这样二元对立的区分,所能完全加以掌握。相反,台湾地区一两百年来,由清代、日据时代一直到国 I. INTRODUCTION The issues of modernity, law and Taiwanese society make it harder to use simple Emile Durkheim mechanic solidarity to organic solidarity, Tunisia (Ferdinand T Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft, Sir Henry Maine’s status to contract, Max Weber’s Traditionalismus to Rationalism, (Rationalismus) such a binary opposition can be completely mastered. On the contrary, Taiwan has been in the country for one to two centuries from the Qing Dynasty and the Japanese occupation era