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We attribute the social and psychological problems of modern society to the fact that that society requires people to live under conditions radically different from those under which the human race evolved and to behave in ways that conflict with the patterns of behavior that the human race developed while living under the earlier conditions. It is clear from what we have already written that we consider lack of opportunity to properly experience the power process as the most important of the abnormal conditions to which modern society subjects people. But it is not the only one. Before dealing with disruption of the power process as a source of social problems we will discuss some of the other sources.

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我們將現代社會的社會和心理問題歸咎於這樣的事實：社會要求人們在與人類演化上根本不同的條件下生活，以及以和人類早期生活條件所發展的行為模式衝突的方式行事。從前面寫過的文中很清楚可知，我們認為缺乏機會適當的體驗權力進程是現代社會加諸於人們的不正常條件中最重要的一個。但其並非唯一的一個。在論述權力進程的中斷作為社會問題的一個來源前，我們將討論一些其他的來源。

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Among the abnormal conditions present in modern industrial society are excessive density of population, isolation of man from nature, excessive rapidity of social change and the breakdown of natural small-scale communities such as the extended family, the village or the tribe.

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極度稠密的人口，人與自然的隔離，過分快速的社會變革，以及自然的小規模社群例如大家庭、村莊或部落的瓦解等是現代工業社會呈現的一些不正常情況。