劳动社会学视野中的服务业研究

在我国经济和社会转型中,大力发展服务业成为国民经济的发展方向。目前,我国学者对服务业的研究主要集中在经济学领域,从社会学视角开展的服务业研究尚不多见。鉴于此,梳理了20世纪下半叶以来西方劳动社会学对服务业研究的相关成果。这些研究集中讨论了两方面的问题:第一,服务业劳动是什么?即服务业劳动过程的特点研究;第二,谁在从事服务业?即服务业劳动者的社会分化与分层。试图通过对既有研究的介绍和梳理,为我国社会学者参与服务业研究提供参考。     

Sociology: A disinvitation?

Among his many books are An Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective; The Capitalist Revolution: Fifty Propositions about Property, Equality, and Liberty; Pyramids of Sacrifice: Political Ethics and Change; Religion in Revolutionary Society; Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion;and In Search of an East Asian Development Model (the latter was published by Transaction).     

试析曼海姆知识社会学理论

曼海姆通过对现代认识论与心理学研究问题的分析,提出了以环境决定知识和群体知识决定个人知识等观点为核心的知识社会学理论。他认为以往知识理论都是政党政治的产物,而知识社会学建立的目的是为了建构一门超党派、为人类服务的纯客观的知识体系。尽管他的知识社会学理论深化了存在论向度的知识问题研究,但由于其对社会问题把握缺失总体性综合式研究思路与方法,因而显得抽象、空洞并难以实现。     

The Structural Transformation of Sociology

The advent of public sociology over the past decade represents the end of a string of crisis moments in sociology. Since the 1950s and, especially, the 1960s, sociology was argued to be in a crisis because the discipline was thought to be conservative and contributing to sustain the status quo. As a result, the 1970s witnessed a radicalization of sociology, but the 1980s saw a general decline of sociology. Upon a resurgence during the 1990s, the crisis advocates have come back with a vengeance in the form of a renewed commitment to a heavily politicized sociology under the heading of public sociology, a perspective that is now thoroughly institutionalized and widely embraced. In sociology, the effects of the 1960s thus began to be felt in earnest some 40 years late.