符号互动论的社会理论:以布鲁默为中心的考察

Social Theory of Symbolic Interactionism:An Inquiry Centering on H.Blume

符号互动论在哲学思想上继承了实用主义的传统,它把米德有关自我身份通过社会角色而确立的观点和杜威有关理论作为解决生活问题工具的观点应用于社会研究。符号互动论一方面看到了自我以及意义解释在社会研究中的重要性,另一方面又想坚持社会理论的经验主义的科学性地位。这要求符号互动论能够发展出一种把“意义解释”与“经验检验”结合起来的方法论路线。然而,这是一项很难贯彻落实的事情。布鲁默是符号互动论的核心人物,以其为中心来阐述符号互动论的理论前提、社会观念、方法论步骤及效应,可以发现尽管符号互动论提出的解决方案还很初步,但它的构想在当代社会理论的转型发展中起着重要的发酵作用。

Symbolic interactionism inherited the tradition of pragmalism in philosophy,and applied Mead's view on self-identity established through social roles and Dewey's view on theory as a tool to solve life problems within the field of social research.Symbolic interactionism recognizes the importance of the self and meaning interpretation in social research,and at the same time intends to maintain the empirical scientific status of social theory.This requires symbolic interactionism to develop a methodology that combines“meaning interpretation”with“empirical examination”.However,this is a very difficult to implement.Although the solution proposed by symbolic interactionism is still very preliminary,its conception plays an important role in the transformation and development of contemporary social theory.Since H.Blume is a central figure in symbolic interactionism,this paper expounds the theoretical premise,social concept and methodological steps of symbolic interactionism with Brummer as the center,and evaluates its effects in the history of contemporary social theory.