近代河南社会史研究的回顾与反思

Review and Retrospection on studies of Modern Henan Social History

20世纪90年代以来,社会史研究异军突起,作为区域史研究的河南近代社会史研究也日趋活跃,研究成果丰硕,主要集中在:人口,包括人口数量、人口分布和人口流动等;灾荒;民间信仰与秘密社会,如基督教与近代河南社会、教门与会党、土匪等;社会阶层,如士绅、商人、学生和其他阶层;妇女婚姻与家庭等方面,但也存在研究内容分布不均、深度不够、理论和方法有待改进等问题。

Since the 1990s,the study of social history has sprung up everywhere. As Regional study,the research of modern Henan Social History is also becoming increasingly active, and the research is fruitful which is mainly in population, including the quantity of population, population distribution and population flow ; famine ; folk belief and the secret society,such as Christianity and modern Henan society, the bandits;social strata including gentry, mer- chants, students and other classes;women, marriage and family. But there exist some problems, such as the uneven distribution of the research contents, the lacking of research depth, theories and methods could be improved.