社会实践结构性巨变对理论创新的积极作用——一种社会学分析的新视角

Social Practice Structural Changes and Their Improvement to Theoretical Innovation——A New Perspective of Sociological Analysis

当代社会实践发生了结构性的巨变,也显示了它具有的两股巨大力量———现代性全球化的长波进程的力量和本土社会转型的特殊脉动的力量。当今世界每一项重大的动态变化也都包含着这两股力量的共同作用。我们把研究这种结构性巨变及其二维效应的理论称之为“实践结构的社会学理论及其二维视野和双侧分析”(简称实践结构论)。从社会学研究“中国经验”的“全球”与“本土”话语之争的再度激活,到“广义转型论”与“狭义转型论”实质性分野的明朗化;从马克思主义社会学生命力的再发现,到现代性彰显以来新兴社会科学(如经济学和社会学)研究的共性和个性的侧重差异,再到当前我国政学两界共同关注的社会热点问题,都需要一种更为开阔的社会学理论视野。通过这一视野,我们不仅能够更深入地把握现代性全球化和本土社会转型的一体两面性,而且可以重新认识在中国新型现代性实践和社会主义和谐社会构建中马克思主义社会学的不懈追求和新的活力。

The structural major changes have been taking place in contemporary social practice, which appear as two kinds of force, the force of modernity in long globalization process and the force of local social transformation. The two kinds of force function together in any important dynamic change in the modern world. We call the study on this kind of structural major changes and its two dimensions of effect as ＂sociological theory of practice structure and its two-dimension scope and two-side analysis＂, or in short, theory of practice structure. From the re-activation of controversy between global and local discourse in Chinese experience in sociological study, to the appearing of substantial differences between ＂general transformation theory＂ and ＂special transformation theory＂, from re-finding life force of Marxist sociology, to the commonness and specialty among new social sciences such as economics and sociology, then to the social focus problems by political and academic circles in modern China, we need a wider scope of sociological theory. Through this scope, we not only can hold two sides in one body of global modernity and local social transformation, but also can it help us realize the pursuit and new vigor of Marxist sociology in the process of new type modernity practice and socialist harmonious society construction.