Due to its particular historical development,sociology as a discipline has gone through several stages in China.Over the last decades,sociologists in China have used \%dingxing yanjiu \% and quantitative approach to c...Due to its particular historical development,sociology as a discipline has gone through several stages in China.Over the last decades,sociologists in China have used \%dingxing yanjiu \% and quantitative approach to conduct sociological inquiry.From methodological and epistemological standpoints,this paper identifies five existing problems pertinent to \%dingxing yanjiu\% and quantitative approach.Focusing on the content of sociological knowledge,and the participants and process of knowledge construction,this paper argues that qualitative approach should be pursued not only to address existing problems,but also to engender sociological knowledge.Employing narratives,fieldnotes,and research findings,the author shows how an inductive approach could challenge existing theories,incorporate voices of the weak and marginalized,and examine the researcher’s pre\|conceptions and biases.展开更多
Being not a branch of sociology reconstructed in the late 1970s and the early 1980s in China,female sociology in China,exactly speaking is the product of the studies on “the women problems"in the mid 1980s.New t...Being not a branch of sociology reconstructed in the late 1970s and the early 1980s in China,female sociology in China,exactly speaking is the product of the studies on “the women problems"in the mid 1980s.New trends has appeared in femals sociology in China during the recent 15 yeas:in respect of the standpoint of studies the emphasis has shifted from on value free to on both value free and feminism.In regard to the idea studies the view has diverted from regarding women as a special role to the multi roles women play and grasping the whole expressed by women as ”human being".In aspect of the strategy of studies the leading roles of the countermeasure studies has been replaced by the coexistence of the counter measure studies,academics and participate studies.Participate studies have been an important characteristic of methodology in female sociology in China.As for the contents of studies focus has transited from the “problem studies"in the 1980s to “the female person"in the early 1990s and to “gender person"in the late 1990s.As a result these changes female sociology as a relatively independent scientific field is at the initial stage of its development in view of its less depending on sociology and women studies.展开更多
文摘Due to its particular historical development,sociology as a discipline has gone through several stages in China.Over the last decades,sociologists in China have used \%dingxing yanjiu \% and quantitative approach to conduct sociological inquiry.From methodological and epistemological standpoints,this paper identifies five existing problems pertinent to \%dingxing yanjiu\% and quantitative approach.Focusing on the content of sociological knowledge,and the participants and process of knowledge construction,this paper argues that qualitative approach should be pursued not only to address existing problems,but also to engender sociological knowledge.Employing narratives,fieldnotes,and research findings,the author shows how an inductive approach could challenge existing theories,incorporate voices of the weak and marginalized,and examine the researcher’s pre\|conceptions and biases.
文摘Being not a branch of sociology reconstructed in the late 1970s and the early 1980s in China,female sociology in China,exactly speaking is the product of the studies on “the women problems"in the mid 1980s.New trends has appeared in femals sociology in China during the recent 15 yeas:in respect of the standpoint of studies the emphasis has shifted from on value free to on both value free and feminism.In regard to the idea studies the view has diverted from regarding women as a special role to the multi roles women play and grasping the whole expressed by women as ”human being".In aspect of the strategy of studies the leading roles of the countermeasure studies has been replaced by the coexistence of the counter measure studies,academics and participate studies.Participate studies have been an important characteristic of methodology in female sociology in China.As for the contents of studies focus has transited from the “problem studies"in the 1980s to “the female person"in the early 1990s and to “gender person"in the late 1990s.As a result these changes female sociology as a relatively independent scientific field is at the initial stage of its development in view of its less depending on sociology and women studies.
