构型分析框架及其在中国研究中的应用潜力

The Figurational Analysis Framework and Its Use Potentials in China Study

通过带有特定理论预设的经验研究,埃利亚斯建构起以“构型”为核心的概念体系及社会学分析框架,体现出研究范式的创新意义。与直接援引埃利亚斯的观点、论断相比,构型社会学的应用潜力还表现在为当代中国研究的诸多经验领域提供研究工具。在构型分析框架下,当代中国的社会变迁与国民性演化、群体关系与社会心态形成、代际关系与两性关系变化,都是不同的社会阶层/代际群体/性别群体相互依赖的社会关系网络动态波动的构型生成。这种研究路径对认识与分析当代中国的社会转型具有开拓性启发意义。

By a series of empirical researches based on the particular theoretical premise,Elias constructed the concept system and sociological analysis framework around the figuration key issue,and showed the innovative significance on research paradigm.Compared with the direct citations of Elias's viewpoints and conclusions,the use potentials of figurational sociology also lie in the fact that it provides research tools to many empirical fields in contemporary China study.Under the figurational analysis framework,social change&nationality evolution,groups relation&social attitudes formation,and generations relation&genders relation in contemporary China can be found the products of dynamic fluctuation of interdependent social relation networks between different social classes,generation groups and gender groups.This research approach is full of pioneering illumination values to understand and analyze the social transformation in contemporary China.