社会科学的本土化与本土化的社会科学——全球化语境下的本土文化研究

Localization of Social Sciences and Localized Social Sciences:A Reflection on Localization of Social Sciences in the Context of Globalization

在全球化语境下重新审视中国百余年来的文化发展路向,目前最重要的工作就是以学术为先导重新建构自主性的文化与社会。社会科学的本土化或本土化的社会科学,必须形成兼具广度和深度的认知典范,建立自己的话语系统与解释系统,并产生独特的研究方法与理论体系,才能真正推动中国学术文化的现代性发展。也可以说,既要国际化(普世性)又要本土化(特殊化),乃是中国学术未来发展的一大方向。由于中国历史经验与文化传承的复杂多样,还有必要多方面地开展各种地区学研究,以充实或丰富本土知识体系的具体内涵。只有透过更广大多元的生活与知识的自主性场域,我们才能更积极主动地开展不同历史一地缘或文化一地缘的交流与对话活动。

The article reviews the development of China's culture over the last hundred years in light of today's globalized language environment, and points out that it is pressingly imperative to rebuild an autonomous culture and society with academics taking the lead. Social sciences'localization or the localization of social sciences, should become an example both in breadth and depth, in building its own system of language and explanation and thus produce special research methods and theoretical systems, and only in this way can it enhance the modernization of academic culture in China. That is, both internationalization and localization are required in the development of Chinese academics. The complexity of Chinese historical experience and cultural inheritance entails research in a great variety of local studies that will enrich the local knowledge system. Only by enlarging the autonomous field of multi-faceted living and knowledge, can we more vigorously develop communication in the area of historical or cultural localization.