Exploring Green Development From the Perspective of Sociology:Logical Basis,Constraints,and Optimization Paths

With the advancement of ecological conservation in China,the concept of green development has gained extensive acceptance and recognition.Exploring green development from the perspectives of environmental protection and sociology holds great theoretical value and practical significance in studying the issues related to green development.Firstly,this paper examines green development in light of the objective needs of the economic and social transformation in the international community and China,and deconstructed its underlying social logic.Secondly,it further investigates the social factors that restrict green development,encompassing social structures,social concepts,social systems,and social behaviors.Finally,within the framework of the“green”discipline system in environmental sociology,this paper proposes specific measures such as restructuring social systems and transforming production modes,lifestyles,and consumption patterns to promote green development.

“反思社会学”,还是“反身社会学”--Reflexive Sociology汉译探析

对布迪厄思想关键词reflexive sociology,现至少有"反思社会学""反思性社会学""反观社会学""反身社会学""反身性社会学"等五种译法。鉴于"反思社会学"之"反思"混淆了reflexive和reflective,前者尚可译为"反身",后者除了"反思"再无词可译。使用"反思社会学"无异于让reflexive抢了reflective的地盘,而reflective在布迪厄著作中同样常见。reflexive本义即为"反身",且布迪厄赋予实践突出的意义,而实践仰仗行动者的身体。在汉语中,"身"有"我自己""你自己""他自己"之意,如"反求诸身";又有实践的意蕴,如"身体力行"。故建议使用"反身社会学"翻译reflexive sociology。

A Review of Environmental Sociology and the Sociology of Natural Resources:Insights for the Development of Environmental Sociology in China

Environmental sociology and the sociology of natural resources are two key subdisciplines of the sociological study on the interactions between nature and human society.Previous discussion on the relationships of these two fields has largely focused on their distinctions and synthesis in western(particularly American) academia.Environmental sociology emerged as an important sociological subdiscipline in China in the early 1990s and is under vigorous disciplinary construction at present.By contrast,the sociology of natural resources is still a novel term for most Chinese researchers.This article provides a systematic review of recent literature on the relationships between environmental and natural resource sociologies,which should provide important implications for the further development of environmental sociology in China.

Complex Systems Theory: Some Considerations for Sociology

This essay presents a reflection on the main implications of Complexity Theory for science in general, redefining and dispelling myths of traditional science, and Sociology in particular, suggesting a redefinition of Parsons’ classic concept of Social System, articulated around the property of self-maintenance of order rather than on its possible discontinuity and instability. It argues that Complexity Theory has established the limits of Classic Science, leading to a more realistic awareness of working and evolution mechanisms of Natural and Social Systems and showing the limits of our capacity to predict and control events. Dissipative structures have shown the creative role of time. Instability, emergence, surprise, unpredictability are the rule rather than the exception when systems move away from equilibrium (entropy), even if these processes are generated from a system’s deterministic working mechanisms. Therefore, we have come to realize how constructive the contribution of Complexity is, in regards to the long lasting problem of the relationship between order and disorder. Today, the terms of this relationship have been re-specified in its new configuration of inter-relationship link, according to a unicum which finds its synthesis in self-organization and deterministic chaos concepts. From this perspective, as Prigogine suggested, studies on Complex Systems are heading toward a historical, biological conception of Physics, and a new alliance between natural systems and living, social systems. Non-linearity, far from equilibrium self-organization, emergence and surprise meet at all levels, as this paper attempts to highlight. In Sociology, insights of Complexity Theory have contributed to a new way of thinking about social systems, by re-addressing some fundamental issues starting to social system, emergence and change concepts. The current social system conception as complex dynamical systems is supported by a profitable use of non-liner models (in particular, the Logistic map) in the study of social processes.

Chinese Sociology: “Chinese Learning” or “Western Learning”

Both the problem consciousness and research characteristics reflected in Chinese sociological traditions are closely connected with the changes and development of the contemporary Chinese society and thus have an impact on the basic features of Chinese sociology. The "for oneself" tradition of Chinese sociology has displayed a fully–open mind for the tradition, the core thought and issue resources of western sociology, and at the same time, it also reflects Chinese solid research on western traditions. This tradition is of great inspiration for us to reflect on the challenges and relevant disputes confronting Chinese sociology today, for how to define and think about the "Chinese learning" or "western learning" problem in Chinese sociology is at the same time a core issue both in the disputes between the theory and the methodology, and in interpreting Chinese "localized" sociology as a discipline.

Complexity and Sociology

This study focuses on the correlation between sociology and complexity and it operates a reflection on the deep epistemological and ontological meaning of complexity, revealing how complexity goes beyond the analysis of the global society and is linked to sociology itself and to the issue of its scientific trait. The study shows how complexity, rediscovered following the globalization processes, reconnects sociology with its own origins and concerns the issue of the relation of sociological science with its own object, that is to say, society and social order. In a more radical manner, the challenge of complexity is intertwined with the road of revisiting modern science and epistemological identifying among ＂order＂, ＂intelligibility＂, and ＂science＂. In such a vision, complexity, not only reconnects sociology to its obiect, but highlights how those traits considered as non-scientific residue of human and social sciences belong to the fundamental issue of scientific knowledge. The challenge of complexity is outlined, as questioning the idea according to which the ＂modern＂ science depletes the ＂scientific vision of the world＂.

Position and Perspective of Statistics in Sociology

The paper first gives a brief overview of the use of statistical methods in sociology in order to show the continuity and importance of these methods in the development of sociology as a science. Therefore, education of sociologists requires, among other things, training in statistical methods applicable in data processing and analysis in sociological research. Then the research continues with a comparative analysis of the curricula of undergraduate academic studies of sociology, and especially the presence of statistics teaching in them, in the Republic of Serbia and the neighbouring countries. Different programs of the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad are analyzed together with the results of the students＇ evaluations for the academic years 2007/2008 and 2009/2010.

Sociology and Degrowth： Visions of Social Change, Entropy and Evolution in a Waydown Era

In the last few years, different sources pointed to a same message： industrial civilization had entered into an overshoot mode; the natural limits to growth had been already surpassed. This frontier does not wait for us in the future; it already belongs to our past. If population and the economy are truly beyond the limits, then current visions and theories of social change would be deeply perturbed. If the development era is approaching its end, then many sociological theories on current societies will share the same destiny： sustainable development doctrines between them. It is worth to examine theories that explicitly look at the social world which at least are not incompatible with it. Four different approaches are discussed in this context： governance of complexity, post-development and alternative local development, utopian sceneries of a prosperous waydown, visions of collapse and the die-off. As a conclusion, the paper accepts an evolutionary perspective supports that there are some potentials for conscious social change, but it does not justify the belief in a particular only line of history. This conclusion does not satisfy the desire of knowing the future; nevertheless it may be the only one possible. The future is not written. Neither in history nor in evolution; not even in the mixture of history and evolution that conforms us as inhabitants of the Earth.

A Study on Liang Shiqiu's Translation Theory from the Prospective of Translation Sociology

Translation activities,social environment and translators’individual particularities are combined in translation sociology which are provided broader theoretical perspective for translation studies.In this paper,Liang Shiqiu’s translation theory is analyzed from the perspective of translation sociology and there should be a new perspective which has expanded in the research of Liang Shiqiu’s translation theory.

The Strength of Training and Applied Research on Specialized Sociology to Contribute to the Social Science Development(Case Study in the Southern Region of Vietnam)

With the common trend of integration and accelerated industrialization-modernization,especially in the context of the current Industrial Revolution 4.0,the South is one of the areas where there are situations and requirements especially for training and research in social sciences in general,sociology in particular.Because,the issue is not only to contribute to the early recovery of the―human resource valley‖(specializing in the South West),facilitating the rapid development of human resources for―investment policy‖and early implementation of the―zoning,planning‖but also by many other economic,social,and cultural issues of the whole region…All have been asked to promote the training and applied research in sociology,especially in specialized sociology to contribute to the linking and promoting the active role of the social sciences with strategic issues and strategies related to the practical development of this land both in the immediate future and in the long run.

The Chinese-English Translation of Sun Tzu’s Art of War from the Perspective of Bourdieusian Sociology

The paper introduces the three core concepts of Bourdieu’s sociological theory and their application in translation studies.The paper then examines and discusses the English translation of The Art of War from Bourdieu’s sociological perspective and the perspective of ephemerality.A comprehensive and objective description of the different translations of the same original text in different historical periods,the strategies of the translators,and the social,historical and cultural factors affecting the translation process can lead to a deeper understanding and proper orientation of translation.

Sister Founders in Sociology： Democratisation of Contemporary Sociological Education

Sister＇s founders in sociology as a coin term are formed by Mary ]o Deegan, in order to explain, reintroduction to female stream sociological theory. Even though there are more than 52 women considered to be founders of sociology, they are still not recognized in sociology, especially in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Aristotle＇s distinction between male and female, according to authoress Shipley, represents the key moment to ideological foundation of the women exclusion from academia and public life, because of their identification with natural and irrational. Results of wars, global ecological movements, and movements for the rights of the minorities were joined together in creation of significant subversion and counterpart of male stream patriarchal ordained theories in eco-feminist movement. The women and nature in male stream theories are considered to be the insignificant other, formed as counterpart for male principal which is culture, reason, and activity. Logic of dominance with its objectification, imperialism, colonialism, patriarchy, and European West racism must be rendered with the logic of nurturing as the prevailing concept of successful bioregional cooperation and interpersonal relationships, pacification and peace agreements. Postmodern sociology especially in works of Rosemarie Tong supports the admissions of all ＂exiled, alienated, deviant and marginal people＂, therefore, the posthuman society must involve the egalitarism in works of female and male in the sociology.

Sociology Between Research and the Society of Data

This paper focuses on how big data guide the construction of the interpretative schemata we use to understand the world and act in it.To this end,the essay describes the most significant new research elements and frontiers that sociology is obliged to address at present.While the prevailing literature advocates the need to promote data literacy,the idea we wish to advance is that it is necessary to foster the comprehension of data along with an understanding of the role and the responsibility which sociology has intrepidly assumed since its foundation,that is,the study and explication of the complexity of the relationships characterising social life always and everywhere.Our intent is to make a proactive contribution to the study of the digitality to bring to light perverse,unexpected and/or unwanted effects associated with naive use of big data for research purposes.

社会学建设的中国经验——费孝通关于“人民社会学”的探索及其启示

我国社会学已有一个世纪的学科建设历程,留下了一些值得总结和继承的中国经验,“人民社会学”就是构建中国特色社会学的一个很好的理论创设与实践路径。费孝通倡导的“人民社会学”与近代以来中国人探求振兴中华、实现中华民族伟大复兴的历程紧密相连,其核心主张是社会学建设与中国实际相结合,坚持以人民为中心的原则,以“志在富民”为学术追求,围绕中国社会发展的时代命题,开展扎实深入的社会调查研究,推动社会学中国化。费孝通倡导并实践的面向中国实际的“人民社会学”对当下构建中国特色社会学具有重要的学术借鉴意义。

Sociological Complexity Theory:From Epistemology to Empirical Methodology

This study,through a re-conceptualization of sociological complexity theory’s epistemological sources,specifically in Edgar Morin’s formulation,sheds light on the theoretical models as well as empirical methodologies of sociological analysis of today’s complex,interconnected,diverse and globalized society and global disorder.Complexity theory leads to a shift in perspective and a transformation of the epistemological status of social sciences with an in-depth intervention of disorder,contingency,case,singular,and non-repeatable in the sociological analysis.The notion of dialogic interplay is placed at the paradigm level and stands out at the heart of the concepts,analyzing the social system as auto-eco-organizer.Similarly,the notion of‘emergence’at macro-micro levels imposes itself as complex,logically requiring overcoming simple,linear thinking and model of explanation to adopt the perspective of organizational rotativity in which the product retroacts by transforming the one producing it,by conceiving a circularity of co-production between individuals and society through interactions.Declining epistemology and sociological complexity theory in the empirical methodology setting,the complex sociological approach is phenomenon-,event/information-and crisis-centered,privileging observation,participation-intervention,and‘live inquiry’.The open,in-depth and possibly non-directive interview is part of clinical sociological methodology,raising the question of the observer-phenomenon-observed relation.

文化、心智与教育——破解教育改革困境底层逻辑的文化社会学分析

受认知科学启发,近年来文化社会学越来越关注文化的认知属性。文化并非是整体性的存在,而更类似于工具箱。个体通过自我建构而形成其独特的心智结构,在社会网络互动中,逐渐表现出心智结构的共性即所谓的文化图式。教育领域众多观念的分歧与争论,便源于这种自发启动的心智结构,或者集体意识与无意识,因而由认知偏差而导致刻板化的偏见与成见。本文摒弃教育的文化决定论立场,强调人的心智开放,即沟通不同社会网络之间的良性互动,激发反思意识与批判性思维,是破解教育改革困境的底层逻辑。

中国式现代化与关系社会学理论创新

中国式现代化为中国社会学理论创新提出了时代任务。西方社会学的现代化理论聚焦社会行为从传统向现代的模式转变,但囿于欧美中心主义和二元对立的哲学理念,欧美社会学家提出的论断漠视世界其他国家的现代化经验,忽视传统与现代之间的连续性,轻视社会行为背后的联系性研究。中国主体话语的关系社会学继承和发展了中国社会学派的联系性理论视角,创立十余年来获得了中国关系纽带、关系机制、关系文化、关系网络等四个方面的理论突破。从中国式现代化的五大中国特色出发,就关系社会学的未来研究议题提出了新的理论命题,包括人口规模巨大视域下的社会关系模式渐变命题和代际关系调适命题、全体人民共同富裕视域下的促进型和抑制型关系机制命题、物质文明与精神文明协调发展视域下的关系纽带变迁命题和关系行为惯习命题、人与自然和谐共生视域下加强环保意识和强化环保行为的关系作用命题、走和平发展道路视域下的中国关系网络相对优势命题。

从“顶天”到“立地”:郑杭生晚年的社会学实践转向

郑杭生先生在探索和发展中国特色社会学的学术历程中,倡导并践行“顶天立地”的学术理念,以“顶天”的理论自觉和世界眼光,开创性地提出社会运行论、社会转型论、学科本土论和社会互构论等具有中国特色的社会学“四论”。在其晚年,以身作则,深入杭州、郑州、广州和深圳等多个城市的基层社区开展实地调查,开启社会学实践转向,形成中国特色社会学理论和实践的完整体系,为中国特色社会学的自主知识体系构建和发展作出了重要贡献,提供了新的指向。重温和回顾“顶天立地”的社会学思想及实践转向,旨在全面学习和领会中国特色社会学的精髓要义,准确把握新时代构建中国特色社会学理论体系、学术体系和话语体系的本质要求及可行路径。

重塑人与人之间的连接——社会学视角下的老旧社区边界空间微更新实践与探索

社区是城市的基本构成单元,其内部的物质性与非物质性边界作为一类重要结构性要素长期以来受到学界的多方关注。然而在当前国内普遍开展的社区更新工作中,边界因素仅被简单抽象为不可调整的物质性围墙,致使大量由消极边界因素引起的空间结构性问题未得到应有的重视。以社区边界空间为研究对象,以社会学视角介入社区更新的过程性评价,同时结合在社区边界所开展的相关实践,以多视角对目标区域的社会空间构成元素在不同规模、不同强度的重构活动中所受到的“作用力”产生的变化做出判断,审视社会诉求,引导社会公众有序参与社区治理,推动共商、共建、共治、共享的社区生态文明建设,以更好地为社区空间构建稳定的环境秩序,激发人与空间结构性的互动效应,为老旧社区边界空间微更新的可持续模式提供实践经验。

乡村治理:一个中国农村社会学的标识性概念

提炼标识性概念是加快建构中国特色哲学社会科学、建构中国自主知识体系的有效路径之一。从“问题”出发,以“乡村治理”概念发展的历史脉络为“经”进行铺陈,以“是什么”“为什么”以及“怎么办”为“纬”进行提炼,研究发现,“乡村治理”是中国农村社会学界乃至中国社会科学界在立足中国实际和实践、解决中国问题的长期探索过程中构建的一个标识性概念。中国学术意义上的“乡村治理”,是一套持续探索构建中国乡村社会秩序并促进乡村社会发展的总体性知识体系。它本质上并非一个单一的概念,而是作为一个概念集合而存在。在每一个历史阶段,乡村治理均指涉“是什么”“为什么”和“怎么办”的具体概念范畴。在研究传统中,作为“物”意义上的乡村治理具有丰富内涵。在改革开放后的30多年中,从村民自治到乡村治理,则充分彰显了“物”与“词”的转换和并存的特点。进入新时代以来,美好社会建设中的乡村治理则深刻地体现了“词物一体”,它不仅成为中国农村社会学界共享的知识范式,而且也成为党和国家正式文件中规范的通用政策语言。