现代社会是社会的现代性存在样式,其鲜明的理论特质就在于不断的分化与整合。社会分化体现为社会领域分化和价值领域分化,它所指认的是社会各领域及其价值原则相互独立、获取各自合法性的历史进程,分化构成了现代社会的历史境遇;但是,当社会分化导致社会分裂、价值冲突的时候,价值危机的加剧凸显出社会整合与价值整合的重要性,整合必将成为现代社会的普遍诉求和价值指向。从哲学上反思并阐明现代社会的这一理论特质,对于准确理解当代中国社会的问题与矛盾具有重大的理论和现实意义。
As the modernity mode of society, the obvious theoretical particularity of modem society is continuous differentiation and integration. Social differentiation appears in its social domain and value domain, which denotes such a historical process that social domains and their value principles become independent and get their own validity, and differentiation constitutes modern society's historical circumstance. However, social integration and value integration become more and more important when social differentiation leads to social split and value conflict. Integration will become a universal appeal and value direction of modem society. To rethink and illuminate the theoretical particularity of modem society, it is significant in theory and reality to exactly understand the social problems and contradictions in contemporary China.