摘要
学界常常将中国社会理论的概念生产直接等同于概念的“发明”,却忽略和低估了另一种重要的概念生产方式——“发现”。而在笔者看来,概念的“发明”固然十分重要,但也面临着种种限制和陷阱,存在被滥用的危险性。要提高中国社会理论的建设水平,除了端正概念“发明”的态度,改进概念“发明”的技艺外,还需要拓宽概念生产的途径,即重视概念的“发现”,也即由研究者对某些已经存在,但原非社会理论术语的用语赋予社会理论的含义,从而将一个非理论术语转化为理论概念。作者分析了概念“发现”的五种基本类型,同时也对概念“发现”中面临的对象化失焦与机制化错位问题进行了解剖。作者最后提出要从“文化自觉”的高度来“发现”概念。
The conceptual production of Chinese social theory is usually equated with conceptual invention in Chinese academia,ignoring and underestimating another important conceptual production mode:discovery.According to the author,although invention of concept is very important,it has its restrictions and traps,and runs the risk of being abused.In order to take Chinese social theory to another level,we need not only to keep improving on the scholarly veracity of conceptual invention,but also to encourage conceptual discovery which means to give new social theoretical imports to some existing but non-technical terms so as to turn them into theoretical concepts.The author sets out five basic types of conceptual discovery and dissects the problems of objective out-of-focus and institutionalized dislocation in conceptual discovery.Finally,the author uplifts conceptual discovery to the height of cultural consciousness.
作者
应星
Ying Xing(Department of Sociology,Tsinghua University)
出处
《开放时代》
CSSCI
北大核心
2023年第3期28-37,5-6,共12页
Open Times
关键词
发明
发现
概念生产
中国社会理论
invention
discovery
conceptual production
Chinese social theory
