一社会发展理论:现代性的产物与现代化的历史使命任何一种理论的产生和发展都是为了满足现实的认知需要,回应时代所提出的问题。社会发展理论(theory of social development)作为探讨人类社会变迁规律及其具体表现形式的学说,既蕴涵了对人类历史发展一般规律的认识,也包括了对现代社会发展中政治、经济、社会、文化等各领域具体问题和现象的认识与探索。但是,作为一种独立的理论形态,社会发 A Theory of Social Development: The Product of Modernity and the Historical Mission of Modernization The emergence and development of any kind of theory are aimed at meeting the cognitive needs of reality and responding to the questions raised by the times. Theory of social development, as a theory of social change and its concrete manifestations, implies not only the understanding of the general laws governing the development of human history, but also the understanding of the political, economic, social and cultural aspects of the development of modern society And other areas of specific problems and phenomena of understanding and exploration. However, as an independent theoretical form, social development