区域社会生活史的若干理论问题

Several Theoretical Issues on the History of Life in Regional Societies

区域社会生活史是区域社会史的重要研究领域,其研究对象是区域社会中人们社会生活的历史,亦即区域城乡居民日常社会生活的变迁;作为社会史尤其是社会生活史研究的新取向,区域社会生活史是有其相对明确的研究对象和研究内容,并不能完全取代社会结构史、社会功能和社会制度史等社会史分支领域的研究。但随着相关研究的深入开展,尤其是理论与方法研究的加强,区域社会生活史有望成为区域社会史研究的一个十分重要且处于核心地位的分支学科;日常生活方式研究虽然是区域社会生活史研究的核心问题,但就历史使命和学科建设两方面而论,中国区域社会生活史应当不断拓展自己的研究领域,借鉴运用全新的理论与方法,从区域生活环境研究、区域生活方式研究、区域生活观念研究、区域消费结构研究、社会生活史的区域比较研究和区域社会生活的可持续发展研究等诸多层面,积极开展学术探索,从而构建出具有本土立场的区域社会生活史学科的理论体系。

As an important area of history of regional society, history of regional life studies people＇ s life in regional society from a historical perspective, that is, the evolution of daily social life of rural and urban inhabitants. The history of regional life represents a novel orientation of study of social history, especially of social life history, and has its relatively distinct object and contents of study. So it can by no means take the place of studies concerning history of social structure, history of social function and social system, and different branches of social history. Thus this brand-new theory and approach can be drawn upon and appllied in a variety of studies, such as environment, way, and view of regional life, structure of regional consumption, comparison of history of social life between regions, and sustainable development of regional social life so as to establish a systematic theory for the discipline of history of regional social life with Chinese stand.