古代城邦本质上是一个文化共同体。城邦的社会结构、社会等级和社会管理中都渗透了一个核心要素:服从城邦。同时,制度化的血缘关系、家庭宗教和精神伦理建筑了城邦人的服从心态和服从观念。这些社会和家庭中的核心观念和文化是城邦行政文化形成的摹本、基础和核心。服从型的行政文化解决了城邦成立之初的一个关键问题:城邦居民服从城邦的问题。
The Polis is a cultural community. So its social structure, social class and social management have infiltrated a core element : obeying the polis. The system of consanguinity, family religious and spiritual ethics build people mind of obeying the polis. In a sense polis' s administrative culture copies the core concept of family and the culture of polis sociality. At the beginning of polis, its administrative culture solves the critical question: obeying the Polis.