Chinese Journal of Sociology ›› 2010, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (3): 21-43.

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Mutual Abandonment: Tension between Society and Sociology:A Discussion with Mr. Xiao Ying

Guo Qiang   

  1. Guo Qiang,The Institute of Humanities Research,East China University of Science and Technology
  • Online:2010-05-25 Published:2010-05-25
  • Contact: Guo Qiang E-mail:E-mail: guoqianggzs@126.com

Abstract:

Abstract:Society without sociology and sociology without society are the inevitable results of their mutual abandonment. For sociology to go back in touch with society, it must be clear about the fundamentals of its own knowledge system, namely, the definitional boundaries of society and sociality, their basic internal meanings, and social subjects. But the vagueness and nonhumanization of social concepts have ended up with their legitimacy and origins lost. Xiao Ying excogitated a side way for the return of sociology; Bourdieu introduced the concept of “Field” to replace “Society.” The tension between society and sociology has led to the distancing of the two from each other, and further, the expected loss of the origins of both society and sociology. The social disorder, the breakage in social intermediation, and the singleness in the media and the public have terminated sociality as well as sociology. The resolution of the tension between the two has become the challenge to the development of society and sociology.

Key words: return ,  society  ,  sociology ,  tension