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托斯丹·凡勃伦:有闲阶级论·摘录 144

托斯丹·凡勃伦《有闲阶级论》· The Theory of the Leisure Class · 投资

It has been well and repeatedly said by popular writers and speakers who reflect the common sense of intelligent people on questions of social structure and function that the position of woman in any community is the most striking index of the level of culture attained by the community, and it might be added, by any given class in the community. This remark is perhaps truer as regards the stage of economic development than as regards development in any other respect. At the same time the position assigned to the woman in the accepted scheme of life, in any community or under any culture, is in a very great degree an expression of traditions which have been shaped by the circumstances of an earlier phase of development, and which have been but partially adapted to the existing economic circumstances, or to the existing exigencies of temperament and habits of mind by which the women living under this modern economic situation are actuated.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/833
定位:Excerpt 144 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

不少通俗作家和演说家反映聪明人对社会结构与功能的常识,他们一再说过:一个社区里妇女的地位,是衡量该社区文化水平最醒目的指标;还可以补一句,也是衡量社区中某一阶级文化水平的指标。这话用来看经济发展阶段,也许比用来看其他方面的发展更准确。同时,任何社区或文化给妇女安排的位置,很大程度上是早期发展环境塑造的传统表达,只是部分地适应了现有经济状况,或适应了现代经济处境下妇女自身的性情和心态需求。所以妇女地位既是镜子,也是旧传统的残留。

上下文

凡勃伦《有闲阶级论》讨论妇女地位作为文化指标,强调其受早期传统塑造而部分脱节于现实。

今日一问

你所在的环境里,妇女的实际地位透露出哪些还没被更新的旧传统?

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