中国的农村社区研究传统:意义、困境与突破

The Tradition of Chinese Rural Community Research:Significance, Dilemma and Breakthrough

社区研究学派曾经为中国社会学带来了短暂的辉煌,但作为一个方法论,社区研究的意义及其拓展一直备受质疑。本文在梳理农村社区研究传统的基础上,剖析社区研究在展现历史悠久且具有非均衡性的中国乡村社会方面存在的方法论困境,在分析当前从事农村社区研究意义的同时,指出社区视域的拓展以及类型化比较方法的运用是农村社区研究获得突破的切入点。

It is known that the school of Community Research has brought Chinese Sociology short bril- liance, but as a methodology, the significance of the community research, as well as its development, have been questioned for a long time. In this paper, we did a lot of work to comb the traditional analysis on commu- nity research in rural China first. Based on that, this paper explained the methodological dilemma of the rural community researches when they tried to show a rural China society featured in long history and non-equilib- rium development. Besides, this paper also analyzed the current significance in rural community research, and pointed out that the expansion of the Community sight and the use of the comparative method is the entry point of the rural community research breakthrough.