本文从历史和逻辑相统一的角度,梳理了社会管理作为一种概念是如何被定义的,主要包括社会管理的主体、功能、价值取向等,以及社会管理作为一种历史的存在是在西方和中国的实践过程中不断发展的,最后指出了社会管理在中国发展的可能路径及需要注意的两个问题。 This article combs the definition of social management as a kind of concept from the perspective of the unity of history and logic. It mainly includes the subject, function and value orientation of social management, as well as the existence of social management as a history in the West and China’s practice of continuous development, and finally pointed out the possible path of social management in China and the need to pay attention to two issues.