从“社区问题”到“问题社区”:当代社区研究的理论困境及其反思
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  • 英文篇名:From the Question of Community to the Community in Question: Theoretical Dilemmas and Reflections of Contemporary Community Studies
  • 作者:吴越菲
  • 英文作者:Wu Yuefei;
  • 关键词:“社区”问题 ; 问题“社区” ; 社区研究 ; 理论困境
  • 英文关键词:the Question of Community;;the Community in Question;;Theoretical Dilemmas;;Community Studies
  • 中文刊名:SHKX
  • 英文刊名:Journal of Social Sciences
  • 机构:华东师范大学中国现代城市研究中心暨社会发展学院;
  • 出版日期:2019-03-10
  • 出版单位:社会科学
  • 年:2019
  • 期:No.463
  • 基金:国家社科基金项目“农业转移人口的乡城流动性及其分类治理研究”(项目编号:18CSH015);; 上海市哲学社会科学规划青年课题“大都市郊区农民的选择性市民化及其流动分化研究”(项目编号:2017ESH008);; 上海市教育发展基金会和上海市教育委员会“晨光计划”(项目编号:17CG22)的阶段性成果
  • 语种:中文;
  • 页:SHKX201903008
  • 页数:11
  • CN:03
  • ISSN:31-1112/C
  • 分类号:91-101
摘要
人与人之间究竟是如何彼此联结的?社会科学始终致力于在变动世界中去发现和理解社会关系的主要形式及其背后的生成机制。相较于传统社区研究所传达的理论确定性,被社会科学广泛论述的"社区"一词在当代越来越多地被诟病为一个问题概念。"社区"是否仍然是一个有生命力的概念?在当代社区研究集体陷入迷思的状况下,更重要的是在历史脉络和跨国语境中重新廓清"社区"被理论化的方式和路径,而不是一再寻求"社区"定义的统一或共识。从传统社区研究对"社区问题"的确定回答到当代社区研究对"问题社区"的批判性检视,激荡了社会联结的理论想象与现实塑造之间交汇的张力。
        How are people being together?Social science has always been committed to discovering and understanding the major forms of social connections and the mechanisms underlying them in a changing world.Compared with the theoretical certainty conveyed by the traditional community research,"community"which is widely discussed by the social science has become interrogative and criticized as a problem concept.Is"community"still alive?Considering the trouble trapped in,it is more important for contemporary community studies to re-clarify the ways and paths of the theorization in historical context and transnational context,instead of repeatedly seeking the unity or consensus of the definition of"community".From the confirmative answer of traditional community research to the critical reflection of contemporary community research on"community",the tensions between the theoretical imagination and reality shaping of social connections are aroused.
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