亟待“国际转向”的新时代社会学——兼论全球社会中社会学研究的关键议题

A New Era of Sociology in Urgent Need of an“International Turn”--Also on the Key Issues of Sociological Research in a Global Society

在人类社会现代化、全球化和一体化发展日益深入的今天,社会学作为一门以“现代性”为研究的逻辑起点、以“现代社会”为研究对象的理论学科,其研究视角却越来越局限于注重本土化和地方性的“民族国家框架”内,“国际场域”中的社会学议题成为社会学研究的未竟之业。把“国际”带回社会学的视野,探索新时代社会学的“国际转向”,不仅是探索社会学创新理论方法、拓展学科界限以及与其他学科交叉融合的可能,也是对全球化及国际社会转型发展的现实回应。从社会学和国际关系等既有学科研究的困局出发,阐述社会学理论学科拓展国际视野的必要性,并以认识论、结构论和功能论等作为分析框架,进一步分析全球社会中社会学亟需拓展的几个关键议题,有助于为处于“本土化—全球化”张力中的社会学探索出一种新的“全球本土化”研究范式。

Today,with the deepening of the modernization,globalization and integration of human society,sociology,as a theoretical discipline with“Modernity”as the logical starting point and“modern society”as the research object,its research perspective is increasingly limited to the“nation-state framework”focusing on localization and locality,and the sociological topics in the“international field”have become the unfinished business of sociological research.Bringing“international”back to the perspective of sociology and exploring the“international turn”of sociology in the new era is not only the possibility of exploring sociological innovative theoretical methods,expanding discipline boundaries and cross integration with other disciplines,but also a realistic response to globalization and the transformation and development of international society.Starting from the research dilemma of existing disciplines such as sociology and international relations,this paper expounds the necessity of expanding the international vision of the discipline of sociological theory,and takes epistemology,structure theory and function theory as the analytical framework to further analyze several key issues that need to be expanded in sociology in global society,so as to explore a new research paradigm of“Glocalization”for sociology under the tension of“Localization-Globalization”.