“迟发展”是国外学者在现代化理论研究中提出的一个概念 ,试图从现代化起步的“时宜性”入手来概括某种现代化发展的类型。“早”与“迟”的时间标准不是固定的 ,是标志现代化起步的条件的变化 ,而这些变化在早发展国家现代化起步的时期是不曾有过 ,给当今迟发展国家造成了许 The “late development” is a concept put forward by foreign scholars in the study of modernization theory, trying to sum up the types of some modern development from the “currentness” of the beginning of modernization. The time standards of “early” and “late” are not fixed, they are marks of changes in conditions for the beginning of modernization that have not been experienced in the early stages of the modernization of the early-developing countries and have caused some problems in today’s late-developing countries