21世纪的都市社会学

Urban Sociology in the Twenty-first Century

1968年,作者发表了他的第一篇学术文章“真的有都市社会学吗?”。32年后,现在回过头来看这段对于城市社会研究的亲身参与经历,答案是:曾经有;不过现在没有了。不过假如幸运的话,都市社会学会在21世纪复活,发展出一些新的概念、新的研究方法以及新的主题,因为它对于我们理解生活比过去任何时候都显得更加必要。

In 1968 the author published his first academic article, under the title ＂Is there an urban sociology？＂ Thirty-two years later, with the hindsight of historical perspective and a life of practicing social research on cities, the answer is： yes, there was; no, there is currently not; but perhaps, with luck, it will resurge in the twenty-first century, with new concepts, new methods, and new themes, because it is more necessary than ever to make sense of our lives.