职业生涯发展视角下社科类博士科研困境成因研究

A Study on the Causes of Research Dilemmas of Social Science Doctors from the Perspective of Career Development

社科类博士容易发生科研成果产出骤减的现象,这对于聘任制度背景下的高校青年教师职业发展十分不利。从职业生涯发展视角出发,试图探索论文“高产”的社科类博士生在毕业成为高校青年教师后却走向“停产”的原因。采用质性研究范式和扎根理论方法,按照目的性抽样选取12名社科领域的高校青年教师,通过访谈进行数据收集并在后期进行文本分析和整理。研究发现,科研身份和学术共同体机制的外部干扰使得社科类博士学术论文难以发表,而职业生涯发展中的期待偏差效应和倦怠滞后效应则是从内部束缚了社科类博士的科研发展,在主观层面终止了论文产出。社科类博士科研困境的背后暴露了科研成果评价机制和科研个体两个方面都存在严重问题。因此,需要从职业生涯发展视角重新审视社科类博士的科研困境,基于其职业发展规律建立科研评价机制。对社科类博士个体而言,要在加强科研能力的同时树立科学的职业发展观念。

Social science doctors are prone to a sudden decline in research output,which is detrimental to the career development of young university teachers in the context of the tenure system.This study is an attempt to explore the reasons why social science PhD students who are“highly productive”in their papers are“discontinued”after graduating as university teachers from a career development perspective.Using a qualitative research paradigm and a grounded theory approach,a purposive sample of 12 young faculty members in the field of social sciences was selected,and data were collected through interviews and later analyzed and organized in textual form.The study found that the external interference of research identity and academic community mechanism made it difficult to publish academic papers of social science PhDs,while the expectation bias effect and burnout lag effect in career development tied up the research development of social science doctors from the inside and terminated the paper output at the subjective level.The dilemma behind the research difficulties of social science doctors reveals serious problems in both the evaluation mechanism of research results and individual researchers.Therefore,it is necessary to re-examine the research dilemma of social science doctors from the perspective of career development and to establish a research evaluation mechanism based on the law of their career development.For social science doctors,they should have a scientific concept of career development while strengthening their research ability.