从方法到方法论:结构边界与功能识别

From Methods to Methodology: in terms of Structural Border and Functional Identification

人们对方法和方法论的追求,是人类理性本质力量的外化,并且始终与创新和创造联系在一起。方法具有目的性、动态性、客观性和中介性特征,兼具结构、创新、效率和学习功能。在从方法到方法论的跃迁过程中,需经历三个层次:方法—论方法—方法论。在这里,方法论按照其抽象度,被划分为论方法和方法论两个层次。而方法论本身,依据其理论性,则又可分为方法观—方法论—方法学三个层次。方法观提供了从方法到方法论转换过程中的中介桥梁和内在理路。

People＇s pursuit of methods and methodology is the externalization of their rational power of humanity, and is always associated with innovation and creativity. Methods possess the natures of purpose, dynamic, objectivity, and intermediary; and play the functions of structure, innovation, efficiency and learning. In the process of the transition from methods to methodology, people need to experience three levels-methods, theoretic methods, and methodology. Here, the methodology, according to the degree of its abstractness, can divided into the two following levels-theoretic methods and methodology. And methodology itself, according to its theoretical quality, can be divided into the three following levels-the view of methods, methodology, and the study of methodology. The view of methods furnishes people with an intermediary bridge and intrinsic theoretic clues in the process of the transformation from methods to methodology.