摘要/Abstract

多元社会结构是西方近代文明的核心要素，它形成于中古时期，其形态主要表现在二元权力体系、多元权力主体和多元法律体系等方面；其特征主要是围绕主体权利而形成的二元社会主体间的一种对立、抗衡、合作、利用的契约关系；其形成与发展依赖于三大传统，即日耳曼传统、罗马法遗迹和基督教思想。多元社会结构作为一种社会文化，深深浸透于西欧人的思想意识中，内化为一种集体无意识，在社会活动的方方面面都会自觉不自觉地用不同的方式表现出来。正是多元的社会结构，催生了西欧近代的民主宪政，催生了保障市场经济形成的法律体系，从而使西欧较早步入

The multi-social structure is a core element of modern Western civilization. It formed in medieval times. Its shape mainly manifested in the dual power system , pluralism and multi-legal system of the power of the main aspects. Its main feature is a kind of the contractual relationship of confrontation and cooperate around The Subjective Rights. The formation and development depends on three major traditions, that the Germanic tradition, Roman ruins and Christian thought. As a kind of the social culture, it is a social structure of pluralism, the birth of modern constitutional democracy in Western Europe, gave birth to ensure the formation of the legal system of the market economy, so early into a modern Western society.