中国社会文化史研究:25年反省与进路

The Research on Chinese Social and Cultural History: Reflection and Approach in Recent 25 Years

我国史学界社会文化史学科兴起25年来,经过了前十年"兴起奠基期"、继十年"发展兴盛期"、近五年"深化扩散期"三个阶段。学术贡献有:理论方法创新,开辟史学新生长点;推动中国近代史研究超越"革命史范式"及"现代化范式",走向"本土现代性";关注民间社会,挖掘内在社会文化资源。存在问题与瓶颈:学科意识模糊,研究"碎片化",平面描述性、意义稀薄及理论缺失。当今社会转型呼唤社会文化史的理论创新成果,未来将会引起关注的"关键论题"有:民间社会、社会治理、生活方式、价值系统。这几个"关键论题",可能会成为社会文化史学者为中国社会发展理论创新作出贡献的生长点。

In recent 25 years, the social cultural history studies in Chinese historian circles went through three stages：the first ten years of the ＂ foundation and rise period＂, the following decade of the ＂development and flourishing period＂, and the last five years of the ＂deepen and proliferation period＂. Its academic contribution is the innovation in theoretical approaches, opening up new growing point of the historiography, promoting the study of modem Chinese history beyond the ＂revolutionary history paradigm＂ and ＂modernization paradigm＂ to ＂indigenous modernity＂, concerning the civil society, and digging the inherent social and cultural resources. Its problems and bottlenecks are vagueness in disciplines,＂ fragmentation＂ in research ,flat description, shortage of meanings and the lack of theoretical supports. Today＇ s social transformation is calling for the innovations in social cultural history theories. The key topics that will raise futural attentions are as below：civil society, social governance,lifestyle, and value system. These key topic may become the growing points for social cultural history scholars to contribute to the theoretical innovation of the Chinese social development.