Contemporary Sociology and the Challenge of Descriptive Assemblage
Contemporary Sociology and the Challenge of Descriptive Assemblage
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当代社会学与描述性组合的挑战
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2009
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M. Savage
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本文认为，当代资本主义明显的描述性转向挑战了正统社会学对因果关系中心重要性的强调和对描述性方法的诋毁。本文回顾了当代三位截然不同的社会学家安德鲁·艾伯特、约翰·戈德索普和布鲁诺·拉图尔对描述社会学的不同主张，并阐述了他们对“社会学描述者”作用的不同看法。有人认为，他们明显的差异需要放在社会学更广泛的重新定位中，从历史上与人文学科的接口转向自然科学。这种重新定位如何涉及传统上在正统社会学中被谴责的视觉方法的新角色，文章最后提出了社会学如何最好地将自己定位于描述性转向的建议。
This article argues that the descriptive turn evident in contemporary capitalism challenges orthodox sociological emphases on the central importance of causality and the denigration of descriptive methods. The article reviews the different evocations of descriptive sociology pronounced by three very different contemporary sociologists: Andrew Abbott, John Goldthorpe, and Bruno Latour, and lays out their different approaches to the role of the `sociological descriptive'. It is argued that their apparent differences need to be placed in a broader re-orientation of sociology away from its historical interface with the humanities and towards the natural sciences. How this reorientation involves a new role for visual methods which have traditionally been decried in orthodox sociology is examined, and the article concludes with suggestions for how sociology might best orient itself to the descriptive turn.