活着的美国社会学理论家有三代？关注哪些议题？《ST》主编Emirbayer透露

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按：我的观点是，除了死人要追（比如涂尔干韦伯），活人也要follow，要挑出两三代，从中再挑两三个人，就像买股票一样，follow, update，玩一样看自己会不会中彩，这个追的当世landmark成为今后的landmark。这样不仅自己的知识能跟得上，而且追死人的时候，更有意识地跟活人学术共同体（期刊不就是活人的吗？）对话。

我喜欢follow【其实也就看看新出哪些论文，关注哪些议题，sigh，没有读很多 】三代人中各挑出的一位是：

1. William H. Sewell Jr.[1940-, 1962B.A.]，大致是下面说的“60一代”，不过他已经退休了，走在Abbott他们前面了。

2. John Levi Martin[1964-]，也是芝大的，大致是下面的80一代吧（稍晚点）

3. Issac Ariail Reed[07年博士毕业的]，下面提到，是00一代

Proposal to Edit Sociological Theory
Mustafa Emirbayer
Universityof Wisconsin-Madison

这一期介绍前一部分——其实是通过这份提案，从主编视角来看，美国的【活着的学术共同体，别再只谈死人了，好像帕森斯之后就没理论家了似的，或者只翻译Alex了】社会学理论家代表人物有哪些，以及社会学的前沿议题有哪些

Emirbayer其实不仅讲了他要怎么办这份（最著名之一）的社会学理论界刊物，也回顾和历数了

1. 他的经历和观察的学术世代的大咖和明日之星【60、80、00一代】

2. 他和他的团队要关注的各派别当下理论【芝加哥范、布迪厄式、分析社会学……】

Emirbayer说，在他读研究生的80年代，尽管如今所见的landmark在那时都迸出来了，suchas Giddens, Bourdieu, Foucault, Touraine, Habermas, and Goffman，但其实，做社会学理论，并没有什么好名声——这或者是帕森斯的“遗产”。（Yetsociological theory also had a bad name, in part because it was so widelyidentified with the Parsonian enterprise）

他的老师甚至和他说，“我不会浪费时间去搞理论的……。”（“Idon’t waste my time theorizing,” I recall a senior professor in my departmentdeclaring. “I’m too busy doing research and finding out new stuff about thesocial world）

但否极泰来、厚积薄发、时过境迁，如今却是搞社会学的好时代（1980以来）。

——如今在美国社会学台面上的人物，都对搞理论有很高的热情。留意的是，他们都是“60一代”（走进社会学的，而不是出生年份）！

（The academic generationthat came of age during the 1960s and that is at the peak of the disciplinetoday—figures such as Wright, Joas,Alexander, Swidler, Camic, Abbott, Somers, Burawoy, Calhoun, McAdam, Zelizer,Fligstein, DiMaggio, and (Patricia Hill) Collins—has shown a greatenthusiasm for theorizing.）

不仅是“60一代”，现在像我这样年龄的（大概是“80一代”？）也都有一批理论有热情

In my own intellectual generation,sociological theory has become a major part of the profiles of many of mycolleagues: Brubaker, Lamont, Steinmetz,Gorski, Adams, Martin, Wacquant, Wimmer, Smith, Lichterman, Bonilla-Silva.

再年轻的一代里，也是如此（大概“00一代”吧）

itness the sheer theoretical vibrancy ofthe generation just now moving toward tenure or recentlytenured: Tavory, Reed, Benzecri, Khan,Decoteau, Desmond, Vaisey, and Lizardo, to name just a few.

办SociologicalTheory这个刊物，就是百花齐放（efflorescence）

——要超越一些老的划分：beyondthe old divisions between, say, quantitative and qualititive inquiry; or workthat primarily is disciplinary in focus and work that is more public-oriented;or research that is empirically rich and work whose hallmark is theoreticalsophistication.

——至少我自己能搞定的议题吧：常人方法学、社会心理学、经典问题、社会行动、社会结构与文化、因果性与阐释的社会科学哲学议题……

I could respond at least as a partial insider to papersubmissions on ethnomethodology as well as on states and social revolutions; ontheoreticalcontributions from the fields of network studies; the sociology of emotions;organization analysis; cultural sociology; social psychology; racestudies; and democratic theory; and on specialists’ writings on the greatclassical and contemporary sociological theorists as well as on time honoredproblems such as how to theorize social action; how to conceptualize therelation between social structure and culture; how to think about theconnection between dispositions and cognition; and how toapproach problems of causality and interpretation in the philosophy of thesocial sciences.

——我将组建的编委还可以会关注前沿的、跨界的：芝加哥风格的、布迪厄式民族志、实用主义导向的、机制解释的、分析社会学……

sociological theory as a field that doesnot limit itself to the conventional topics (e.g.,study of canonic authors) but rather is, or ought to be, vitally involved inthe most cutting-edgelines of thinking and research in the discipline. I would try to haverepresentation on the board of areas such as historical and cultural analysis;Chicago-style as well as Bourdieuian ethnography; pragmatism-inspiredresearch; and mechanisms-based, analytic sociology.

（Sociological理论大缸第51期）