The multiple modernities thesis has been the focus of scholarly debates in the last decade and has become widely accepted in the study of non-Western societies. Yet the thesis suffers from a major incoherence which lies in its principal assumptions about the process by which social change occurs. The article offers a critique of the multiple modernities thesis which challenges Eisenstadt’s understanding of diverse cultural contexts and their localized institutional constellations on account of its dualistic division into two levels: the intangible (ontological visions or culture) and the tangible (structure or system) by which it seeks to account for the plurality of modern societies.

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多元现代性论题的分析不连贯性

多重现代性论文在过去十年中一直是学术争论的焦点，并在非西方社会的研究中被广泛接受。然而，该论文存在重大的不连贯性，这在于其关于社会变革发生过程的主要假设。这篇文章对多重现代性论文提出了批评，该论文挑战了艾森施塔特对多元文化背景及其本地化制度星座的理解，因为它分为两个层次：无形的（本体论愿景或文化）和有形的（结构或系统）。它试图解释现代社会的多元化。