ABSTRACT
By integrating theoretical views, this chapter summarizes three basic elements of society: the physical system, the network system, and the concept system. These three interconnected systems form the “Trinity of Social Elements System.” Based on this system, culture can be divided into three types: Substantial Culture, Ideographic Culture, and Normative Culture. Cultural conflict refers to the situation in which two or more different cultures do not adapt to each other in a cultural interaction process. The impacts of modernization on society are ultimately exhibited in the performance and quality of its individuals. It is seen in the updates of concepts and consciousness of members of the society. Social development and human development, in essence, constitute unified processes. People form the main body of society. Social development and modernization must be reflected in the modernization of individuals. Thus, the impacts of modernization on society are exhibited in the performance and quality of its individuals. China’s social transformation period in the 1990s was just one stage during the whole process of social development.
