在关联与无涉之间——关于社会学研究方法的再思考

Between Neutrality and Linkage——Reconsidenation of the Research Methodology of Sociology

价值立场的问题一直是社会科学研究中重要而又容易引起争议的问题 ,社会学作为一门独立的学科有其自身的一套研究方法 ,同时也涉及到遵循何种价值立场的问题。从经典的社会学家那里我们可以获得这样的启发 ,在研究社会现象时我们总是带有一定的目的或者说价值兴趣 ,但在研究过程中则应该努力做到价值无涉 。

Value standpoint is an important issue, which is always controversial in the research of sociology. As an independent discipline, sociology has a set of research methods of its own, in which value standpoint is involved. From classic sociologists, we can get such illumination that we always have some intention, in other words, value interest, when we start researching social phenomena. But during the course of the research, we must try to keep value neutrality and discover the reality itself.