Polar Models of Culture-Regressivism Versus Progressivism  

作　　者：Harry W.Adams 

机构地区：[1]Prairie View A&M University,TX,USA

出　　处：《Cultural and Religious Studies》2024年第4期193-209,共17页文化与宗教研究（英文版）

摘　　要：The culture wars that simmer within any nation may have been escalating recently;but regardless of their national settings or milieus,many of these wars are informed by two opposing paradigms of culture.This paper analyzes two of these leading paradigms,designated here as Regressivism and Progressivism.Other theorists have long chronicled the differing strengths and weaknesses of these paradigms,taking the former as expressing more conservative,traditional,and nationalistic values,and the latter as expressing more liberal,pluralistic,and cosmopolitan values.Going beyond these perennial distinctions,I argue that Progressivism is more benign and beneficial than the former-by meeting basic human needs better and supporting more effective adaptation to changing exigencies.I also argue that Progressivism does not express merely subjective or relativistic preferences and values,but objectively preferable and quantifiable ones,that benefit not only our personal lives more but also our global village and communal lives more.

关 键 词：cultural pluralism CONSERVATISM NATIONALISM COSMOPOLITANISM COMMUNITARIANISM 

分 类 号：G05[文化科学]