社会理论的空间转向

Spatial Turn in Social Theories

社会理论的空间转向是社会理论的当代进展的一个重要组成部分,它沿着两条路径展开:一方面,吉登斯、布迪厄等社会理论大师在现代性架构下检视空间与社会的交互关系对于研究社会结构与社会过程的重要性;另一方面,后现代社会理论家采用一系列的地理学概念和隐喻来探索日益复杂和分化的社会世界。本文旨在系统地呈现这一转向的基本脉络。

Spatial turn is regarded as one of the contemporary developmental trends in social theories, and it evolves along two lines. On the one hand, modern social theorists, including Giddens, Boudieu, and Lefebvre, are examining within the framework of modernity the significance of the interactions between space and society to research into social structures and social processes; on the other hand, several postmodern social theorists are using geographic concepts and metaphors to understand this increasingly complex and differentiated social world. The current paper is to describe the basic routes of this turn.