社会科学本土化的理论内涵——基于社会学的类型学分析

Meanings of the Indigenization of Social Science——A Typology Based on the Review of Sociology in China

在中国社会学及社会科学学术史上,研究本土化是一个不断提起的议题,在多个学术领域均有学者提出过"本土化"或"中国化"的论述。本研究认为,有关社会科学本土化的主张大致可以划分为五种主要类型,分别是学科引入/应用论、理论验证/修正论、问题意识本土论、理论解释特殊论和文化/学术自主论。不同类型的主张基于不同的知识论、方法论预设,涉及到本土化论题的不同层面,对本土化提出了不同的要求。

In the history of social science and sociology in China, issues on indigenization are raised for many times. Many scholars said that social sciences are all imported from western countries, and advocated that these disciplines should be indigenized in Chinese context. Based on the review of Chinese sociology, we put forward a new typology of opinions on the indigenization of social sciences in this paper. These types of thoughts on indigenization of social sciences are related to different viewpoints of epistemology and assumptions in the metatheory.