第37期
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2006 / 12
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pp. 1 - 31
社會學舆公共影響力:新政策社會學的願景
Sociology and Its Public Influence: The Vision of New Policy Sociology
作者
蔡明璋 Ming-Chang Tsai
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(國立台北大學社會學系 Department of Sociology, National Taipei University)
蔡明璋 Ming-Chang Tsai
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國立台北大學社會學系 Department of Sociology, National Taipei University
中文摘要
台灣社會學界應該更積極進行政策社會學的研究,以提升社會學的公共影響力,避免因爲過度追求專業化而將這門學科銬上自我規訓輿社會隔離的鎖鍊。本文討論公共社會學輿強勢專業社會學兩個範型的問題,並指出社會工程學的可行性。政策社會學在台灣所面臨的經濟學霸權輿官僚情境的限制,文中亦加以分析。社會學家可以積極的跨越實證研究者的角色,在合理的理念基礎上,提出規範性的製度創新。最後提出新政策社會學的六個命題,作焉倡議政策研究的願景。
英文摘要
This address encourages sociologists in Taiwan to engage in policy-oriented researches to increase social influence of this academic discipline. We had overstressed professionalization of sociological research such that the consequent self-disciplining and social isolation had generated severe backlashes. This paper criticized two potential proposals public sociology and strong professional sociology that aimed to obtain social popularity for sociology. It is contended that there exists favorable potentials from social engineering model. Moreover, obstacles that policy sociology might encounter in Taiwan, mainly dominance of economics and bureaucratic hurdles, were detailed. Sociologists can play a more positive role by proposing innovative institutions that are norms-and reason-based. In conclusion, six theses of new policy sociology are presented to manifest a vision of new policy sociology.