宗法制度的兴亡及其对中国社会的影响

宗法制度虽然在西周末年就已经瓦解，但它的影响在中国却一直延续了二千多年。本文通过对这一问题的探讨，揭示出宗法制的残余影响已经渗透到中国社会的各个领域和各个不同层面，并积淀成为一种支配中国社会、调整人际关系、规范伦理道德的社会传统和文化精神，进而导致中国文化成为伦理类型的文化。

The Rise and Fall of Patriarchal Clan System and Its Influence on Chinese Society

The patriarchal clan system disintegrated as early as the late Western Zhou Dynasty, but its influence lasts over 2000 years. This thesis makes a research on this question and finds that the remaining influence of this system has permeated every field and level of Chinese society and has accumulated into a kind of social tradition and cultural spirit, which dominated the Chinese society, adjusted the social relationship, regulated the human relations ethics and further led the Chinese culture to an ethics type.