摘要
生命历程研究是社会学研究的重要领域之一。从方法论层面来看,由量化研究主导的传统生命历程研究在揭示社会“平均人”生命历程的基本模式的同时,牺牲了呈现个体差异、社会制度与历史进程之间的互动性、复杂性和丰富性的能力。即使重视质性研究的生命历程制度化研究,也只是重在关注结构性“制度”。质性取向的生命历程研究需要拓展领域,通过个体生命故事来揭示社会和历史进程的丰富性和复杂性,以此获得对社会结构、社会事件和历史进程的深刻理解与洞察,补齐量化研究和制度化研究的方法论短板。质性研究方法在生命历程研究中的应用在如下三个方向达成了重要的拓展和创新:呈现数字统计“规律性”模式背后的具体机制和故事,拓展社会学想象力,以及发掘个体在生命历程中的“能动性”。
The study of the life course is one of the important fields of sociological research.Methodologically,traditional studies of the life course,dominated by quantitative research,reveal the basic model of society’s“average human”the life course,but at the same time they sacrifice the ability to present individual differences and the interaction,complexity and richness between social systems and historical processes.Even the theory of the institutionalization of the life course,which pays attention to qualitative research,focuses on the structural“institution”only.Qualitatively oriented study of the life course needs to expand the field and reveal the richness and complexity of the social and historical process through individual life stories,so as to gain a deep understanding and insight into social structures,social events and historical processes,and make up for the methodological shortcomings of quantitative and institutionalized research.The application of qualitative research methods in the study of the life course has advanced in the following three directions:presenting the specific mechanism and story behind the regularity model of digital statistics,expanding the sociological imagination,and exploring the individual’s initiative in the life course.
出处
《中国社会科学评价》
CSSCI
2022年第4期109-121,157,158,共15页
China Social Science Review
