田野工作的价值与限度

• 作 者: 夏国锋
• 机 构: 华中师范大学政治学研究院 湖北武汉430079
• 出 处: 理论界
• 发表日期: 2007年02期
• 关键词: 田野工作 价值 限度

本文以人类学中的田野工作作为讨论的对象,从概念及其作为已经被社会科学领域的众多学科所借用的研究方法入手,认为田野工作在社会科学学术理论的验证及破除意识形态霸权方面有着其客观的应用价值。同时,本文还就其作为一种方法而具有的自身限度,从研究者与被研究者之间的互为主体的理解真实程度及田野的微观研究特色,与理论的整体理解取向之间的张力存在两个方面进行了反思。

This article takes the field work in anthropology as the object of discussion and starts from the concept and its research methods which have been borrowed by many disciplines in the field of social science. It holds that field work has the following features in the verification of the academic theory of social sciences and the eradication of ideological hegemony Its objective application value. At the same time, this article also on its own as a method has its own limits, from the researchers and the researcher each other between the true understanding of the degree and the field of micro-research features and theoretical understanding of the overall tension between the orientation There are two aspects of reflection.