高等教育场域中的知识建构——建筑风水文化培训班事件的案例研究

Knowledge Construction in the Field of Higher Education:A Case Study of the Event of“Training Class of Cultural Architectural Fengshui”

"风水培训班"事件引发的对于"风水"能否成为兼具合理性合法性知识的争论,使公众、媒体、大学、政府卷入知识建构的过程中。这一事件呈现了知识的合理化合法化所遵循的生产路径。从科学知识社会学角度看,知识的合理化合法化过程是一场与惯例相互联系的社会关系的较量,培训班依托大学以及官方颁发的资格证书力图实现对惯例的遵循,最终在媒体利益、专家利益以及专家内部相关利益的角力下,建筑风水知识未能完成由"外围知识"向"核心知识"的飞跃。

The event of ' Training Class of Fengshui' has triggered a hot debate on the legitimacy of Fengshui.The public,media,university and administration all became involved in a process of constructing a new kind of knowledge.The event manifested the routine of the knowledge aiming for legitimacy.From the perspective of sociology of scientific knowledge,the process of legalization of knowledge is full of conflicts within social relations which are connected with the convention.The training class obeyed the convention by basing on the certificate and the legitimacy of the university. However,owing to the conflicts between the media and experts' interests,it failed to make Fengshui accomplishing the leap from the frontier knowledge to the core knowledge.