当今中国历史学界,现代化研究的重要开拓者、北京大学教授罗荣渠不久前又推出了一部新作《现代化新论》(北京大学出版社1993年10月版,以下简称《新论》),对现代化理论和世界与中国的现代化进程作了重要探索。《新论》以历史学为出发点,探讨了英国首先实现现代化,中国现代化却进程迟缓的原因以及在现代化三次大潮的冲击下其他国家现代化的不同模式。但这种研究与探讨又超出了纯史学范畴,所获结论本身内涵了更为一般的法则,因此著者又得以从中伸延,概括出诸如内源性现代化与外源性现代化的各自特征、宏观社会变迁的一般性动因与基本形式等社会学的因果律,建立了一个具有首创意义的,以生产力为社会发展中轴的一元多线历史观的理论体系。将以往史学中史论结合的套路上升到更具有科学性的历史学与社会学的联姻。《新沦》为宏观社会理论的形成与发展创辟了新途径,它以马克思的本来构思为基 Nowadays, Luo Rongqun, an important pioneer in the study of modernization in China’s history field and professor of Peking University, has also released a new book “The New Theory of Modernization” (Peking University Press, October 1993, hereinafter referred to as “the new theory”), Theory and the world and China’s modernization process made an important exploration. On the historical basis, The New Theory explores the reason why the UK took the lead in realizing modernization and China’s modernization has lagged behind and the different modes of modernization in other countries under the impact of the three tides of modernization. However, this kind of research and exploration went beyond the category of pure history, and the conclusion itself embodied a more general law. Therefore, the author extended it to generalize its own characteristics such as endogenous modernization and exogenous modernization. The macro society The general motivation and the basic form of change, and other sociological causality, a theoretical system of first-line multi-line historical view of productivity as the axis of social development has been established. The history of history in the history of the combination of routines rose to a more scientific history and sociology of marriage. “New Fall” created a new way for the formation and development of macro-social theory. Based on Marx’s original concept