社会学家的窍门

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• These basic sociological ideas were lost not by accident, but because sociologists did not allow the definition of some activities as "wrong" (whatever term was used to register that judgment) to become an object of investigation. Who successfully defined some activities as deviant and how they did that were not discussable questions. Conventional social scientists treated those definitions as obvious or God-given... In the same way, studies on education often focused on why students did not learn what they ought to have learned in school...They never looked for the answer in the teachers or in the organizations of school life... In short, sociologists forget their own theories when anything important in the world is at stake. They fail to follow the clear instructions those theories imply... (查看原文)

  以心 2014-02-09 13:02:52

• So it is a good good trick to think of some set of social activities as having just that organic character, looking for all the connections that contribute to the outcome we are interested in, seeing how they affect one another, each creating the conditions for the others to operate... Seeing society as an organism isn't itself an analytic trick, just a general caution to pay attention to all the things connected to what you're interested in. The society-as-organism view works especially well when we want to acknowledge and make room in our analysis for the independent variation of whole subsystems of phenomena that are neither totally unrelated nor related in any profoundly deterministic way. The first consists of forgetting about types of people as analytic categories and looking instea... (查看原文)

  以心 2014-02-10 05:19:45

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