郑杭生先生的韦伯研究与中国特色社会学理论建构

Zheng Hangsheng's Weber Studies and the Construction of Sociological Theory with Chinese Characteristics

郑杭生先生是最早认识到韦伯研究的重要性并对韦伯社会学思想进行深入研究的中国内地学者之一。他坚持借鉴国外、创造特色的理论自觉,对韦伯的社会学思想加以深入研究和借鉴应用。他在对韦伯“价值中立”思想的系统阐释中确立了中国特色马克思主义社会学的正确方向,在建构社会运行论、社会转型论、社会互构论等中国特色社会学理论的过程中,不同程度上受到韦伯“理想类型”等思想的启发与影响。在与韦伯“传统—现代”分析框架对话的基础上,他创造性地提出了新时期“社会共同性”“新型现代性”“新型社会主义”等概念和命题。郑杭生先生以高度的理论自觉对韦伯研究的重视和对韦伯思想的借鉴应用,对新时代中国特色社会学知识体系的建设仍有重要启迪意义。

ZHENG Hangsheng is one of the earliest mainland Chinese scholars to recognize the importance of Weber studies and the study of Weber's sociological thoughts.He insisted on the theoretical consciousness of learning from foreign countries and creating special characteristics,and conducted in-depth research on Weber's sociological thoughts and applied them.In his systematic interpretation of Weber's idea of“value neutrality”,he established the correct direction of Marxist sociology with Chinese characteristics.In the process of constructing sociological theories with Chinese characteristics,such as the theory of social operation,the theory of social transformation,and the theory of social inter-construction,he was inspired and influenced by Weber's ideas of“ideal type”and other thoughts.On the basis of dialoguing with Weber's“traditional-modern”analytical framework,he creatively put forward the concepts and propositions of“social commonality”,“new type of modernity”and“new type of socialism”.Zheng Hangsheng's emphasis on Weber studies and the application of his ideas with a high degree of theoretical consciousness are still of great significance for the construction of sociological knowledge system with Chinese characteristics in the new era.