当代STS研究的社会学进路及其转向  

The Sociological Approach to STS and Its Theoretical Turn

作　　者：赵万里[1] 胡勇慧 

机构地区：[1]南开大学社会学系

出　　处：《科学与社会》2011年第1期80-93,共14页Science and Society

基　　金：国家社科基金项目"科学社会研究中的社会学与人类学视角比较研究"(项目批准号04BSH004)研究成果之一

摘　　要：社会学是当代STS研究的重要进路之一。本文根据国内外有关研究文献,分阶段回顾了STS社会学研究的发展历程和主要贡献。本文认为,社会学视角进入STS研究不仅是STS理论走向成熟的关键因素,而且催生了丰富多彩的经验研究成果,客观上促进了我们对科学技术体制、科学技术知识、科学技术实践的更为深入的理解。本文对科学社会学和科学知识社会学的理论多样性持一种积极评价,视其为社会学说明模式日益开放的标志。而对STS研究近年来出现的试图超越社会学的各种"转向",则持保留的态度。Sociology is one of the important approaches to contemporary STS studies. This paper reviewed the role of sociological studies of science and technology in the stages of STS development. It was shown that sociological perspective help us understand science and technology as institution, knowledge and practice on the strength of its normal theories and methodologies, such as structural- functionalism, social constructivism and so on, which has spawned a variety of empirical pro- grammes and research results. Following the work of sociologists, this article suggests a positive evaluation on the sociologies of science and the sociologies of scientific knowledge, and treats the diversity of sociological accounts as something open-minded. While we take the turn discourses beyond sociology in STS in recent years with a pinch of salt.

关 键 词：STS 科学社会学 科学知识社会学 理论转向 

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