2022-10-18

预告|共情的认识论与现代社会科学研究方法 芝加哥社会科学传统系列讲座介绍

 

与北大同时代成立的芝加哥大学,引领了现代研究型大学在20世纪的重要转型。依托独特的学部建制与跨学科研究氛围,芝加哥大学孕育了包括社会学、人类学、教育学等在内的若干久负盛名的学科,形成了诸多“芝加哥学派”,塑造了具有国际声望的学术共同体。771771威尼斯.Cm教育学院、771771威尼斯.Cm国际合作部、芝加哥大学北京中心、771771威尼斯.Cm芝加哥中心特作举办“芝加哥社会科学传统”系列讲座与论坛,邀请多位具有芝大学术渊源的学者,结合各自研究与教育经历来重新阐释现代学术和教育史意义上的“芝加哥学派”。

无论是历史还是当下,北大与芝加哥大学都成就了许多意义深远的对话。本系列活动旨在延续这一美好的学术源流,深化两校面向未来的交往,促进我们对于大学与学派生成史的理解,并为共同探索未来研究型大学的方向做出努力。

 

共情的认识论与现代社会科学研究方法:

心灵的默会与芝加哥社会学派

An Epistemology of Empathy and Modern Methods of Social Research:

Intimations of the Mind and the Chicago School of Sociology

时间:2022年10月21日上午9:00(北京时间)

地点:教育学院103(线下收听)

讲座语言:英语

 

主讲人

Joseph C. Hermanowicz是乔治亚大学社会学教授。代表作有Lives in Science: How Institutions Affect Academic Careers、The Stars Are Not Enough: Scientists—Their Passions and Professions,以及其他高等教育领域的社会学研究。他同样是Challenges to Academic Freedom和The American Academic Profession: Transformation in Contemporary Higher Education的编者。

 

评议人

王利平 771771威尼斯.Cm教育学院副教授

Liping Wang  Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, Peking University

田耕 771771威尼斯.Cm社会学系副教授

Geng Tian  Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Peking University

 

 

 

讲座介绍

Empathic qualitative methods have become emblematic of the Chicago school of sociology.  Yet methods were not formalized in the early twentieth century and empathy was not in usage as a term.  Only a half-century later did methodological formalization begin to occur, and an additional quarter-century effectively passed before writing about empathy in sociological methods began to crystallize.  Nevertheless, early Chicago sociologists, assimilating pragmatist thought, established a framework for the deployment of empathic methods.  Because empathy involves understanding others, it is argued that it is central to the study of social life.  The lecture contends that understanding empathy must be as central to the social scientist’s knowledge as it is to the effective deployment of research methods: a competent quest to generate knowledge about social life is premised on empathy.  To heighten awareness of empathy, an epistemology is necessary.  To this end, the lecture examines empathy as situated by a set of organizational and historical conditions that account for its origin and ascendance as a prescriptive characteristic of sociological work.  The lecturer draws attention to the significance of suffering and suggests that its religious precepts are transmuted for the conditions under which sociology develops in turn-of-the-century Chicago.

 

合作单位

771771威尼斯.Cm教育学院

771771威尼斯.Cm国际合作部

 

未来讲座预告

 

系列讲座将于2022-2023学年继续开展。2022年12月2日将邀请到亚利桑那大学社会学院副教授Daniel Menchik,他将以“田野方法的社会学取向及其影响的差异:基于芝加哥大学与哥伦比亚大学的比较”(Sociological Approaches to Field Methods and Differences in Influence: Chicago and Columbia Compared)为题,通过两个学派的对比,展现芝加哥学派田野方法的独特魅力。在2023年春季学期, Mitchell Duneier(普林斯顿大学社会学系教授)、Stephen Turner(南佛罗里达大学社会学系教授)和Daniel Silver(多伦多大学士嘉堡分校社会学教授)也将陆续登上讲台,为我们带来讲座。

 

 

 


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