探索与争鸣 ›› 2026, Vol. 1 ›› Issue (9): 35-42.

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中宣部哲学社会科学重点专栏·人工智能与未来社会(三十)|数字时代的拓扑团结:社会何以可能

王天夫、蒲威东   

  • 出版日期:2026-09-20 发布日期:2026-10-14
  • 作者简介:王天夫,清华大学社会科学学院院长、教授; 蒲威东,清华大学社会科学学院博士后。(北京 100084)
  • 基金资助:
    教育部哲学社会科学研究重大专项“‘数字社会’理论体系建构与数字中国实践研究”(2026JZDZ091)

Topological Solidarity in the Digital Age: How Is Society Possible

Wang Tianfu & Pu Weidong   

  • Online:2026-09-20 Published:2026-10-14

摘要: 数字技术的深度嵌入正在重塑社会连接的基础形态,使“社会何以可能”这一经典命题重新进入理论讨论范畴。从农业社会到工业社会的转型进程中,经典社会学家揭示了社会团结形态的演化逻辑,但数字社会显示出全新的特征,传统团结理论在解释数字时代的社会整合时陷入困境。为回应这一理论挑战,数字时代可以借助“拓扑团结”这一新型社会团结形态的概念,描述人与人、人与资源、人与场景在虚实、时空、形态的连续变换中何以保持核心连通性与整合性。

关键词: 数字社会|社会连接|社会整合|社会团结|拓扑团结|连通性

Abstract: The deep embedding of digital technologies is reshaping the foundational forms of social connection, bringing the classical proposition of “how is society possible” back into the scope of theoretical discussion. In the transition from agricultural to industrial society, classical sociologists revealed the evolutionary logic of the forms of social solidarity. Digital society, however, exhibits entirely novel characteristics, and traditional theories of solidarity encounter difficulties when explaining social integration in the digital age. To address this theoretical challenge, the concept of “topological solidarity”, a new form of social solidarity in the digital age, can be used to describe how core connectivity and integration are consistently maintained among people, between people and resources, between people and scenarios amidst the continuous transformations of virtuality-reality, time-space, and form.

Key words: digital society| social connection| social integration| social solidarity| topological solidarity| connectivity