21世纪乡村研究的新挑战:一个社会学的视角

New Challenges for Rural Research in the 21st Century:Sociological Profile

全球性的社会变迁给不同的行动者群体带来了新的复杂关系,农业人口和农业生产也不可避免地被卷入这种新的关系,从而给“乡土性”带来了很多变化。这些变化体现在如全球和当地行动者的多样性,农村空间和农业空间的不对等,自然的价值对农村环境的重要性,商品网络和价值谈判以及移民和移居问题等等方面。在这样的背景下,农村发展社会学的性质和主题也在不断变化着,因此给研究者们提出继续研究“农村”领域还是研究“农村发展”的问题。

Social transformation around the globe brings up new and complicated relationships for different actor groups. Agricultural population and agricultural production are also involved in these new relationships, bringing quite a few changes to the ruralities. These changes are reflected in aspects like the variety of global and local actors, the in-equilibrium of rural and agricultural space, importance of natural values to rural environment, commodity network and value negotiation as well as migration and re-settlement etc. Under such an environment, the nature and topics of rural development sociological studies are subject to constant changes, posting an issue to researchers on whether continuing the study of ＂the countryside＂ or the study of ＂rural development＂.