改革开放与中国社会学重建的话语叙事--以40位社会学人的生命历程为例

Reform and Opening Up and the Narrative Discourse of Chinese Sociology Reconstruction:The Example of the Life Course of Forty Sociologists

中国社会学的重建与改革开放的同步,为我们提供了通过社会学家个人生命历程回顾当代社会进步的独特视角。重建之后的这一代中国社会学人大多都有过下乡、做工或当兵的经历,从某种意义上说,他们在接触社会学之前就以某种非学科化的方式完成了从事经验研究的最初“启蒙”。对城乡社会和普通民众的了解及由此生成的共情,加之以多元杂糅的方式完成的学术训练,使他们能够比较顺利地进入被研究者的生活世界。他们以自己独特的职业身份投身改革开放,直面现代化进程中所遭遇的问题和挑战,同时以自己的想象力、经验研究和理论创见做出相应的话语回应;而社会转型和文化自觉,也为创建中国社会学的主体性提供了主客观基础。在这40年中,他们的生命历程与集体经历影响了中国社会学的知识生产,既赋予他们呼应中国现实的学术活力,也留下了有待精细化的提升空间。

The synchronization of Chinese sociology reconstruction with reform and opening up provides us with a unique perspective to review the contemporary progress of Chinese society through sociologists’ personal life course. Most of the postreconstruction generation of Chinese sociologists had the experience of going to the countryside,working as laborers,or serving in the military before going to university.In a sense,they gained enlightenment in relation to empirical research in a non-disciplinary way before being exposed to sociology.Their understanding of and resulting empathy with urban and rural society and the masses,coupled with their academic training in diverse and miscellaneous methods,made it easier for them to enter the world of their research subjects.With their unique professional status,they participated in reform and opening up,confronted the problems and challenges in the modernization process,and responded to them with imagination,empirical research,and theoretical insights.Social transformation and cultural awareness also provided a subjective and objective basis for creating the agency of Chinese sociology.Throughout the past forty-plus years,their life courses and collective experiences have influenced the production of knowledge in Chinese sociology,endowing them with the academic vitality to respond to Chinese reality while still leaving room for bringing their work to new heights.