Performing Cultural Sociology
Performing Cultural Sociology
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执行文化社会学
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2008
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J. Ossandón
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Rodrigo Cordero;Francisco Carballo;J. Ossandón
传统上，社会学家将与其学科相关的文化研究称为“文化社会学”。自 20 世纪 80 年代中期以来，杰弗里·亚历山大 (Jeffrey Alexander) 一直在改变这门学科，创造了一个新术语：“文化社会学”。这一剧变的目的是重新定义社会学对与社会行动相关的意义的理解，并将意义和社会行动重新定义为一般社会研究的类别（见Alexander，2007）。亚历山大的作品试图构建超越帕森斯理论大厦的建筑。这意味着，对于亚历山大来说，文化是一种在分析上不同于社会且独立于社会的结构，而社会又被理解为行动的内部环境。因此，亚历山大将文化视为社会学分析的“自变量”（Alexander and Smith，2003）。他对文化的重新思考强调社会学内部需要一个新的子学科，同时由于其强调意义的创造性和表演性而重振了政治、经济学或法律等其他领域。从这个意义上说，亚历山大在文化社会学方面的“强有力的计划”，也是对社会科学的一个强有力的赌注。在过去的二十年里，文化社会学已经成为美国社会学中一个日益制度化的领域。亚历山大在推进自己的理论范式方面发挥了重要作用，同时在其工作下塑造了一代又一代的研究生。难怪“文化社会学的强有力的计划”是不同文化分析流派的一致参考（Kurasawa，2004）。亚历山大的作品一直是一些批评评论的对象，产生了同样多的支持和拒绝（即 Collins, 1985; Colomy and Turner 1998; Emirbayer, 2004; Fuhrman, 1986; Inglis et al., 2006; Joas, 2005; Kurasawa, 2004; McLennan, 2004, 2005; Mouzelis, 1999；波吉，1983；华莱士，1984）。在本次采访中，杰弗里·亚历山大讨论了他的著作的思想演变，从早期重新思考社会学理论逻辑的尝试到他在社会表现理论方面的最新务实转向。此外，他将其文化社会学置于情境中并解释了与《欧洲社会理论杂志》11(4): 523–542 的一致点。
Traditionally, sociologists have referred to the study of culture that concerns their discipline as ‘sociology of culture’. Since the mid-1980s Jeffrey Alexander has been turning the discipline on its feet, coining a new term: ‘cultural sociology’. The purpose of this upheaval is to redefine the sociological understanding of meaning in relation to social action as well as to rework both meaning and social action as categories for social research in general (see Alexander, 2007). Alexander’s work seeks to construct above and beyond Parsons’ theoretical edifice. This implies that, for Alexander, culture is a structure analytically different and autonomous from society, which is, in turn, understood as the internal environment of action. Consequently, Alexander regards culture as an ‘independent variable’ for sociological analysis (Alexander and Smith, 2003). His rethinking of culture stresses the need for a new sub-discipline within sociology, while reinvigorating other fields such as politics, economics or law due to its emphasis on the creative and performative character of meaning. In this sense, Alexander’s ‘strong program’ in cultural sociology, is also a strong bet for the social sciences. In the last two decades cultural sociology has become an increasingly institutionalized field within American sociology. Alexander has played a major role in advancing his own theoretical paradigm while shaping generations of graduate students under its workings. It is no wonder that the ‘strong program in cultural sociology’ is an unvarying reference among different schools of cultural analysis (Kurasawa, 2004). Alexander’s work has been the object of several critical reviews generating as much adhesion as rejection (i.e. Collins, 1985; Colomy and Turner 1998; Emirbayer, 2004; Fuhrman, 1986; Inglis et al., 2006; Joas, 2005; Kurasawa, 2004; McLennan, 2004, 2005; Mouzelis, 1999; Poggi, 1983; Wallace, 1984). In the present interview Jeffrey Alexander discusses the intellectual evolution of his work, from early attempts in rethinking the theoretical logic of sociology to his latest pragmatic turn in terms of a theory of social performance. Moreover, he contextualizes his cultural sociology and explains the points of agreement and European Journal of Social Theory 11(4): 523–542