日常意义的建构及其变迁

The Construction and Changes of Daily Meaning

日常意义为人的社会生活提供时空上的秩序,可以用社会学中的“社会实在的建构”加以分析。这一框架较好地统合了由韦伯建立的理想型研究和涂尔干建立的社会事实研究,其重点关注主观意义客观化、制度化与合法化的过程。在此基础上,如果进一步划分出意义在横向与纵向上所体现出的差异性与普遍性,并以中国人传统婚礼为例,借助理想型与现实场景的比较,展示此种礼仪的制度化、合法化及其流变机制,可以更好地理解中国传统文化的意义特征是如何贯彻、传递、演绎的。社会学中的“意义”和“意义感”讨论其实是一种把个体行动与共时代人和历时代人相连接的研究路径,其重要性在于回答社会本身是如何构成的。

Daily meaning provides temporal and spatial order for human social life,which can be analyzed through the framework of“construction of social reality”in sociology.This framework effectively integrates the Ideal Type Study established by Weber and the Social Fact Study established by Durkheim,with a focus on the process of objectification,institutionalization,and legalization of subjective meaning.On this basis,by further exploring the differences and universality of meaning in both horizontal and vertical dimensions,and using traditional Chinese wedding as an example,we can employ a comparative analysis between the Ideal type and actual scenarios to demonstrate the institutionalization,legalization,and mechanisms of change underlying such ceremonial practices.This approach enables a better understanding of how the characteristics of meaning in Chinese traditional culture are embodied,transmitted,and interpreted.