高等教育学学科分析:科学社会学的视角——引文分析基础上高等教育学学术思想之间的社会关系分析

Social Relations Between Academic Concepts in HE Studies as Demonstrated in Citations:A Sociology of Science Perspective on HE Studies as a Discipline

科学研究过程既是一个理智的认识过程,也是一个思想的社会交往过程。因此,分析一门学科的性质可以从其学术思想内容和学术思想的社会关系两个方面来进行。通过对学科学术思想之间的社会关系分析,探讨学术思想之间联系的多少、远近、集中度、时间跨度等,可以清晰地看出学科学术思想的社会关系、学术共同体的组织程度和学科发展的模式等。以论文的引用文献为基础,对高等教育学的上述指标进行分析,可以看出高等教育学学术共同体尚没有真正形成,或者结构还非常松散;学科的范式还不明显,知识的直线累积性差,缺乏显著的学派和思想中心;学科的发展表现出两种不同的模式;学科的本土化、自主化程度较高,国际化程度尚不够,依附程度低。

As scientific research is both an intellectual inquiry process and a process of social interaction between different ideas,it is desirable to analyse a discipline not only by studying the implication of its academic concepts,but also by delineating the social relations between them.Through social relations analysis of academic concepts,for example,finding out how far away they are from each other,how deep their relations are,how concentrated their interaction becomes,and what the time gap between their emergence is,we can see clearly the social relations between disciplinary academic concepts,the organization mechanism in academic community and development modes for academic disciplines.Based on citation analysis of HE articles focusing on the above mentioned indicators,the present study comes to the conclusion that the academic community of our HE studies remains loosely organized,far from being full-developed.What's more,there is still no dominating disciplinary paradigm for our HE studies,neither is there any prominent school of thought or center of thought in our HE studies.And there are two development modes for our HE studies,which tend to be highly localized and fully independent but insufficiently internationalized.