林耀华家族研究及其意义

The Study of Linyaohua's Clan

林耀华是中国较早以田野调查来研究中国家族问题的社会学者之一,他以祠堂为中心从结构功能的视角来研究中国宗族乡村,注重对宗族组织、祠堂功能、个人生命史、个人和宗族的关系等要素的研究,在其家族研究中集中体现了社会学人类学的本土化过程,其家族研究对中国家族史研究具有重要的启发及推动作用。

Lin yaohua was one of the earlier sociologists studying clan by using countryside investigation in china. He breached through the predecessor's visual angle and put the clan institution into the backdrop of construction-function theories. The point of study was clan's organization, ancestral temple function, person life history, relation of Individual and clansmen and so on. The study method embodies the localization of anthropology and sociology, which affected deeply the study of clan in the twentieth century.