“现代化”是我们时代思想观念、社会生活的一个“兴奋点”。美国普林斯顿大学历史学教授西里尔·布莱克的《现代化的动力》是一本关于现代化问题的力作。布莱克重视现代化的起始条件和过程因素,因而他从比较近代史入手,把民族国家和政治现代化作为研究的基本单元和中心课题,通过比较求得对人类整体发展进程的一般看法。他运用比较方法的一个主要立论是:“在今天这个时代,政治、经济和社会等结构的任何微小变化都影响到全人类,人无法不面对并接受由比较而得来的 “Modernization” is an “exciting point” of our time’s ideas, social life. Cyril Black, professor of history at Princeton University in the United States, is a masterpiece of modernization. Blake attached importance to the initial conditions and process factors of modernization. Therefore, starting from a comparatively recent history, Blake regarded the nation-state and political modernization as the basic unit of research and the central task of the study. By comparing and contrasting with the general viewpoints on the overall development of mankind, One of his main arguments by using the comparative approach is: "In this day and age, any minor change in the structure of politics, economy and society affects all mankind, and one can not fail to face and accept the comparative