This article analyzes social causes of prevalence of the rumor and gossip about SARS in Beijing, Guangzhou and other districts of China in early 2003 when SARS was spreading. Methods like questionnaires, interviews an...This article analyzes social causes of prevalence of the rumor and gossip about SARS in Beijing, Guangzhou and other districts of China in early 2003 when SARS was spreading. Methods like questionnaires, interviews and analysis of documents are used in this article. Rumors and gossip are information spread in society which has no adequate proofs and are the results of three components working together which are aberration of people’s mind, recreation of disseminator and use of folk culture and tradition.展开更多
The paper probed into some sociological theories and its multiple paradigms using the Thomas Kuhn’s theory on paradigm. On two basic ideal types of macro micro and naturalism humanism, the author brought forward that...The paper probed into some sociological theories and its multiple paradigms using the Thomas Kuhn’s theory on paradigm. On two basic ideal types of macro micro and naturalism humanism, the author brought forward that contemporary sociological theories could be classified into four basic patterns as Social Facts, Social Behavior, Social Critique and Social Definition. Finally, the author discussed the possibility of a more integrated paradigm of sociology in the context of Post modernism.展开更多
文摘This article analyzes social causes of prevalence of the rumor and gossip about SARS in Beijing, Guangzhou and other districts of China in early 2003 when SARS was spreading. Methods like questionnaires, interviews and analysis of documents are used in this article. Rumors and gossip are information spread in society which has no adequate proofs and are the results of three components working together which are aberration of people’s mind, recreation of disseminator and use of folk culture and tradition.
文摘The paper probed into some sociological theories and its multiple paradigms using the Thomas Kuhn’s theory on paradigm. On two basic ideal types of macro micro and naturalism humanism, the author brought forward that contemporary sociological theories could be classified into four basic patterns as Social Facts, Social Behavior, Social Critique and Social Definition. Finally, the author discussed the possibility of a more integrated paradigm of sociology in the context of Post modernism.
