迈向社会学研究的新领域——全球气候变化问题的社会学分析

Advances in the New Field of the Sociological Research——Sociological Analysis of the Global Climate Change

在分析全球气候变化的主要特点基础上,指出气候变化问题对于社会学研究的挑战或意义包括:社会学将面临新的研究议题,需要开展跨学科合作研究;社会学在研究社会系统的运行和发展时,将不得不转换其思维和研究范式;社会学将不得不扩大和改进对于其研究对象———"社会"———的理解;社会学将不得不探索或者强调一种新的秩序观,更加强调秩序的生成和建构过程;社会学将会更加重视社会行动的研究,倡导行动主体的积极反思和主动变革。最后,我们将对社会学研究全球气候的主要争议问题进行了总结分析。

Based on analyzing the main features of the global climate change,this paper points out the challenge or significance of the climatic change for the sociological research,including that sociology will face the new research subject and need the interdisciplinary cooperation research;when we research the movement of social system and development,we have to transform the thought and the paradigm;sociology has to expand and improve the understanding regarding its object-the society;sociology has to explore or emphasize a kind of new order view,and even more emphasize the order of the production and construction process;and sociology should pay more attention to the research of social actions,and advocate the active reflection and initial transformation of the main body.Finally,the paper analyzes some controversial issues of the study of global climate by sociology.