阿尔弗莱德·韦伯以他的“历史内在结构论”在“文化形态学”领域独树一帜。按照他的理论 ,对人类和民族历史的分析与考察应分社会过程、文明过程、文化运动三个层面。社会过程是人类和民族历史的外在显示 ,如同人的身体 ;文明过程是人类历史得以延续的动力 ,如同人的营养 ;文化过程是各历史体的本质属性 ,如同人的基因。文明过程和文化运动在“创造”或“发现”、普遍性和排他性、累积性和一次性、合目的性和无目的性等四方面存在差异。阿尔弗莱德·韦伯的这一理论对于人们重新认识文化和文明的含义 ,克服欧洲中心论和狭隘的区域文明观 ,认真审视科学技术的社会功能 ,建立全球史观 ,均具有启发意义 Alfred Weber is unique in his field of “cultural morphology” with his “theory of the internal structure of history”. According to his theory, the analysis and investigation of the history of mankind and nation should be divided into three levels: social process, civilized process and cultural movement. The social process is an external manifestation of the history of mankind and nation, just like the human body. The process of civilization is the driving force for the continuation of human history, as human nutrition. The cultural process is the essential attribute of all historical bodies, like human genes. Civilized processes and cultural movements differ in four aspects: “creation” or “discovery”, universality and exclusivity, cumulativeness and one-off, purposiveness and non-purpose. This theory by Alfred Weber is instructive for people to re-understand the meaning of culture and civilization, overcome the European centralism and narrow regional outlook on civilization, carefully examine the social functions of science and technology and establish a global historical perspective