人文社会科学跨学科交叉研究的创新与边界——以旅游研究为例

Innovation and Boundaries in Inter-disciplinary Research on Humanities and Social Science:A Case Study of Tourism

人文社会科学研究的独立价值在于对研究对象进行中立、客观的描述,发现相关关系,并提出趋势预测和管理建议。有助于人文社会科学研究价值实现的知识积累、分析结构、逻辑构建和技术方法等都是科研创新的重要内容。本文章以旅游研究为例,讨论目前人文社会科学跨学科交叉研究在科研地位与社会影响力相对弱势状况下,科研创新突破的实现策略。建议新兴交叉学科研究重视时代性背景下基础概念的共识性构建,推进统计指标分类分级细化,拓展数据搜集与分析方法,鼓励新兴现象调查描述类科研成果,鼓励科研表达与知识传播方式等方面的科研公共关系突破,从而保证在范式边界基础上的有效科研创新。

Humanities and social science have fuzzy boundaries due to the application of findings from natural science and technologies. But their core features are associated with the social and humanity aspects. And the independent value of research on humanities and social science lies in the description of objects in neutral and objective perspectives, in discoveries of relationships and predictions of tendencies, as well as in the contribution of managerial suggestions. Any kind of knowledge accumulation, proposal of analytical structures or logical constructions, methods and technologies that will facilitate the achievement of one or several of the above- mentioned fundamental goals are the important content of scientific research and innovations. Interdisciplinary research is gaining rapid popularity at home and abroad, and the number of application-orientated interdisciplinary subjects and studies is ever increasing. The interdisciplinary concept frequently occurs from various meetings to diverse policies, from project proposals to award reviews, and from curricular design to the establishment of a major. However, in contrast to discourse focus interdisciplinary research has not yet become productive. And interdisciplinary science remains no more than a lexical focus at the conceptual level, whose characteristics,regularities and ontology have drawn little attention. Moreover,the talents and supporting funding in interdisciplinary research as well as their social influence are still in a disadvantageous situation. The study of tourism is an investigation of complex phenomena that are closely related to society, nature, culture, economy and environment. With the increment of the number of tourists and the expansion of tourism economy worldwide, the development, organization,management and the social effect of tourism research is drawing increasing attention, and the targets of tourism research is becoming more and more diverse, accordingly the paradigm of tourism research exhibits a vast variety. However, at present the social influence of tourism research is relatively weak,far behind that of the tourism industry, especially in terms of the description of emerging tourism economy, tourism effects, and the development and change of tourist behaviors, which are still stuck in difficult situations of scientific research. This paper takes tourism research as an example to discuss strategies to achieve breakthroughs in interdisciplinary cross studies on humanities and social science.It suggests that emerging interdisciplinary research focus on the construction of fundamental concepts,classification and statistics, meanwhile, it pay attention to the formation of open growing frameworks of knowledge that can accommodate the development of emerging phenomena, to the extension of corpus data collection and various analytical methods, the encouragement of basic investigation and description of emerging phenomena, the guidance of scientific research towards social demands, and to the popularization of scientific research findings, in order to promote substantial innovations of scientific research on the basis of paradigmatic boundaries.