國立政治大學社會學系

【講題】Out in the Field in the Archives: One Historical Sociologist’s Perspective on the Discipline

             檔案館中的田野：一個歷史社會學家對整體學科的視野

【講者】翁哲瑞（國立台灣大學社會學系助理教授）

【時間】2022.05.02（一）14：10-16：00

【地點】國立政治大學綜合院館南棟13樓社科院第1會議室

【主辦】國立政治大學社會學系

【演講簡介】

Most of the field of sociology understandably focuses on contemporary society. There are more than enough worthy social phenomena and intriguing social puzzles, not to mention social crises, to fill several lifetimes of research. Often, at least in the United States, historical sociology can seem like an academic luxury, to be reserved only for the wealthiest and most exclusive institutions. What, then, can a historical perspective offer to the field? I will argue that historical sociology provides us with the tools to produce and adjudicate between different interpretations of a given social phenomenon. Based on my research on language standardization in republican China (1911–1949), I will illustrate how three different periodizations—presentist, short-termist, and long-termist—give us three contrasting understandings of the creation and rise of Mandarin Chinese.

【講者簡介】

Jeffrey Weng is assistant professor of sociology at National Taiwan University. He holds a PhD in sociology from UC Berkeley and was 2020–2021 Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow on Contemporary Asia at Stanford University. His research centers on language, race, ethnicity, and nationalism in 20th-century China, and his work has appeared in the Journal of Asian Studies, Theory and Society, the European Journal of Sociology, and is forthcoming in the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies.

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【人數限制】36人 (額滿即止)

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