在工业社会中,绝大多数人的工作和生活都是围绕工资而展开的。西方人把工资称为salary,这个词是从“盐”(salt)演化而来。在中国,工资通常被称为“薪水”。这种从盐、薪水等具体的生活必需品到借盐、薪水来命名的抽象的生活必需品的演变,使我们略窥工业社会与农业社会的本质差别——直接经济与间接经济之间,抽象社区与具体社区之间的差别。我们可以从农业社会和工业社会邻居角色的演变中清楚地看到这一点。 在反映两种文化相遇时发生“文化震惊”(cultural shock)的影片《捕鳄者 In industrial society, the vast majority of people work and live around payroll. Westerners call wages salary, a term that evolved from salt. In China, wages are often called “salaries.” This evolution of the necessities of life, from salt, salaries and other specific necessities of life to salt and salaries, gives us a glimpse of the essential differences between industrial and agricultural societies - between direct and indirect economies, from abstract communities Differences from specific communities. We can clearly see this in the evolution of the role of neighbors in agrarian society and in industrial society. “Crocodile caught” in a cultural shock that reflects the encounter between two cultures