清末中国现代社会调查肇兴刍论

Preliminary Research on the Rise of Modern Social Investigation in the Late of Qing

自1902年底浙江留日学生同乡会成立调查部后,社会调查在清末形成了一股潮流。清末调查受日本的影响较大,与统计学关系较为密切,其内容涉及社会生活的方方面面,调查主体和目的均呈现出多样化的特征,调查的结果也表现出一定的客观性。这些足以说明,清末的社会调查已具有某种现代性了,现代社会调查已在清末萌发。

Following the Association of Zhejiang Students in Japan establishment of an investigation department in 1902, there was a gradual trend toward the use of social surveys in the late Qing. Influenced by Japan , late Qing social surveys were closely related to statistics. The content of social surveys involved a variety of aspects of social life, the subjects and purposes were diverse, and the results were objective. All this indicated that a degree of modernity existed in social investigation at the end of Qing Dynasty and modem social survey can trace its origins to this period.