查尔斯·蒂利历史社会学的重要贡献:重建欧洲社会史的概念和内涵

Charles Tilly’s Contribution to Historical Sociology:Reconstruction of the Concept and Connotation of European Social History

查尔斯·蒂利在历史社会学上的奠基性贡献,引导了上世纪60年代以来的历史社会学研究在社会学中的兴起。他的历史社会学思维方式及其展望性的研究取向,使其欧洲社会史研究自成一格,出色的完成了从群众抗争的视野去解释欧洲民主政治与社会变迁,将微观的社会生活史与宏大的民主化进程相结合的学术宏愿。其关于社会史的核心内容是“重建大规模社会结构变迁下的普通人民的历史”的主张,重建了欧洲社会史的概念和内涵。蒂利帮助我们重新评估了“历史思维”在社会学理论与方法上意义,其在欧洲社会史上重视历史的时间性、空间性、持续性,历史与理论的关系等示范研究,开创了一种独特的社会科学理路:历史社会科学。

Charles Tilly’s fundamental contribution in historical sociology plays an important part in the rise of historical sociological research in sociology since the 1960s.His historical sociological thinking mode and prospective study orientation make his European social history research unique.By interpreting European democratic politics and social changes from the perspective of mass struggle,Charles Tilly achieves his academic aspiration as he successfully integrates the micro-history of social life history with the grand democratization process in his works.Based on the core idea of“reconstructing the history of ordinary people under large-scale social structural changes”,his claims related to social history rebuild the concept and connotation of European social history.Charles Tilly helps us re-evaluate the significance of“historical thinking”in sociological theory and methodology.His exemplary works of European social history emphasize the temporality,spatiality,and continuity of history as well as the relationship between history and theory,thus creating a distinctive kind of social science theory:historical sociology.