每一个社会都有一种主导性的行为模式,在农业社会,支配服从是主导性的行为模式;在工业社会,竞争协作是主导性的行为模式。20世纪80年代以来,人类进入了全球化、后工业化进程,其可以想像的结果就是走向后工业社会。在此过程中,我们发现合作正逐渐成为一种主导性的行为模式。关于合作,在学术界存在着误解,人们往往把工业社会中的协作也称为合作。其实,合作不同于协作,因而,建立在竞争协作基础上的制度及其社会治理模式也将不再适厘于后工业社会的要求。在全球化后工业化的进程中,我们的社会正在发生根本性的变化,特别是基于工业社会的制度及其治理方式去在社会的高度复杂性和高度不确定性开展活动,导致了风险社会的到来和危机事件频繁发生的后果。面对这些问题,我们必须根据全球化、后工业化的要求去进行制度创新,以求为合作行为模式的确立开拓出一个广阔的空间。
There are different prevailing patterns of behavior in different societies. Domination-obedi- ence is the prevailing pattern of behavior in agricultural societies, while competition-coordination is the pre- vailing pattern of behavior in industrial societies. Since 1980s, some kind of post-industrial societies have been evolving with the development of globalization and post-industrialization, and cooperation is becoming its prevailing pattern of behavior. As to cooperation, there is a misunderstanding in the academia which identi- fies it with coordination. But to us, these two patterns lead to totally different sorts of social institutions and modes of governance. Our societies are undergoing fundamental changes in the process of globalization and post-industrialization, producing high complexity and high uncertainty in our lives, yet we still try to cope with them with old institutions and ways of governance, which has foiled and caused the perilous risk society. The right answer to these challenges is and must be institutional innovation, which can make room for cooperative action to resolve them.