“现代化”是当今社会普遍使用、家喻户晓的常用语之一。但“现代化”一词的确切含义,学术界见仁见智迄今没有公认的定义。就笔者看来,在“现代化”的诸多定义中,历史学家罗荣渠对现代化的界定较能准确地概括现代化的本质。他说:“现代化作为一个世界性的历史过程,是指人类社会从工业革命以来所经历的一场急剧变 “Modernization” is one of the commonly used and widely used words in society today. However, the exact meaning of the word “modernization” has no recognized definition in academia so far. In the author’s opinion, in the many definitions of “modernization”, historian Luo Rongqu can accurately define the nature of modernization in his definition of modernization. He said: "As a worldwide historical process, modernization refers to a rapidly changing human society undergoing the industrial revolution