探寻社会学理论发展的非经验主义道路
Exploring a Non-Empirical Way of Sociological Theory Development
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摘要: 默顿倡导以中层理论为中介来联结社会学的经验研究和一般理论研究，推动社会学理论的合理发展，这一倡导具有合理性。但是默顿试图通过以经验研究为基础优先发展中层理论，然后再通过对中层理论进行归纳来形成一般理论这种经验主义策略进而实现这一目标的想法却可能是错误的。正如中层理论并非从经验事实中归纳得来一样，一般理论也难以从中层理论中归纳而来。我们需要探索一条非经验主义的社会学理论发展道路。Abstract: Merton advocates an way of sociological theory development which take theories of the middle-range as an intermediary to link sociological empirical research and general theoretical research. This proposal is reasonable. But Merton’s attempt to achieve this goal by prioritizing the development of theories of the middle-range based on empirical research and then forming a general theory by generalizing theories of the middle-range may be wrong. Just as a theory of the middle-range is not derived from empirical facts, a general theory is also difficult formed from generalize of theories of the middle-range. We need to explore a non-empirical way for the development of sociological theory.
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Key words:
- sociological theory /
- theory of the middle-range /
- empiricism /
- non-empiricalism
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