软科学研究方法存在的问题与创新路径

The Problems and Route of Innovation of Methods of Soft Science

在概述软科学研究方法体系主要构成的基础上,分析软科学方法研究中存在的两大问题:缺乏成熟范式的研究方法以及盲目强调定量研究。针对这两大问题提出了软科学方法研究改进的基本方向:从思想层面重视软科学方法论的研究;从制度层面鼓励软科学研究方法的创新;从技术层面形成以定性与定量相结合的综合集成法为主流的研究路径与研究范式。

This paper summerized the system of methodology of soft science, and analyzed the two main problems of methodology of research on soft science： the lack of paradigm of methods and blind emphasis of quantitative research. And then the paper put forward the basic direction to improve the methods of soft science from the following three aspects ： emphasizing the methods of the research on soft science from the ideological level ; supporting and encouraging the innova- tion of the methods of the research on soft science from the social system level; forming paradigm on the main stream of Meta - Synthesis.