美国文化社会学的三副面孔

美国文化社会学的研究对象是作为意义制造的文化。在这种研究中,美国文化社会学形成了三副面孔,即破碎的面孔,从研究整一的文化到研究破碎的文化;物质的面孔,从研究文化的精神层面到研究文化的物质层面;自主的面孔,从强调作为因变量的文化到强调作为自变量的文化。这深刻地改变了我们的文化观念,对我国当前的文化研究具有重要价值。

American sociology of culture studies the culture as meaningmaking, and forms three kinds of research： the one has the fragmented face, which studies the fragmented culture instead of consistent culture ; the second has the material face, which studied the material level of culture instead of its spiritual level; the third has the autonomous face, which focus on the culture as independent variable instead of culture as dependent variable. It has changed our ideas of culture dramatically, and is very valuable to the study of culture in contemporary China.