重思中国社会科学的本土化理想

Rethinking the Ideal of Localization of Social Sciences in China

社会科学在中国是舶来品,它由一批留学欧美的学者引入,并因应于中国社会的现代变迁建立起相应的价值导向、学术规范与研究群体。社会科学的学术研究目标是揭示研究者所在社会的面目,这一定位注定了中国社会科学一定会踏上寻求本土化的漫漫征途。但百年来探寻本土化之途的艰难促使人们反省这个目标是否适当。文章认为,中国社会科学需要在本土化的普适社会科学范式建构与本土化的绝对经验描述之间,确立社会科学之服从科学逻辑的普适原则,以及基于中国经验的可证伪的社会科学研究范式两个高度关联的研究目标,籍此走出西方社会科学的影响焦虑,引导中国社会科学朝向严格的社会科学健康发展。

Social science in China is an imported product introduced by a group of scholars studying in Europe and the United States.It has established corresponding value orientation,academic norms and research groups in response to the modern changes of Chinese society.The academic research goal of social science is to reveal the society where the researchers are situated.It is destined that social science in China will establish the ideal of localization.The goal that has influenced the development of social science in China for nearly a hundred years has not been achieved in the past century.Therefore,people are prompted to reflect on whether the localization goal of social science in China is appropriate.We hold that social science needs to establish two highly related research objectives,namely,the universal principle of Social science obeying scientific logic and the falsifiable research paradigm of social science based on Chinese experience,between the construction of the localized universal paradigm of social science and the description of the absolute experience of localization.In this way,we aim at getting rid of the theoretical anxiety after introducing western social science and leading to a strict and healthy Chinese social science.