公民意识不仅同推动社会意识形态和政治文化进步具有内在深刻的逻辑关联,是走向法治社会的关键性结构要素,而且也是一种与现代市场经济发展相适应的重要理念。从世界近现代历史考察,只有当传统身份社会向现代契约社会转变、市场经济最终确立了在社会经济生活中的主导地位后,现代社会方能随之发展壮大。而市场经济是以经济自由运行为机制和以公民平等参与经济过程为主要特征的。因此,健康发展的市场经济是培育公民意识之决定性的基础。 Civic awareness not only has intrinsic and profound logical connection with promoting social ideology and progress of political culture, but also is a key structural element toward a society run by the rule of law. It is also an important concept that is compatible with the development of modern market economy. From the perspective of the modern history of the world, only when the traditional identity society is transformed to a modern contractual society and the market economy finally establishes its dominance in the social and economic life, the modern society can then grow and develop. The market economy is characterized by the free movement of the economy as a mechanism and the equal participation of citizens in the economic process. Therefore, the healthy development of the market economy is the decisive foundation for cultivating civic awareness.