The Logical Analysis Of The Disciplinary Evolution Of STS: From The Perspective Of Paradigm

The STS discipline has developed for more than 40 years, and it has already eliminited the initial infantility and the radicalness, maturing gradually. As an emerging discipline, there are some arguments and puzzledom accompanying with its evolution, and they reveal that the disciplinary system of STS is immature. So we can further promote and perfect the systematization and constitution of the STS discipline. Although the domestic and oversee academia have paid attention to these arguments and puzzledom, it is not enough yet; one seldom construes the dynamic directions from the holisitc standpoint; at the same time, the systematic and synthetic studies are scarce. It is necessary to integrate the academic resources and the research results of STS; of course, it is a kind of foundation work.This paper targets at some tentative work in this line, absorbing the domestic and oversee STS research results, incorporating the background knowledge from the philosophy, the sociology, the anthropology and the hermeneutics, this dissertation adopts the research on the experimental analysis and tentatively analyzes and discusses the STS disciplinary evolution.Based on the characteristics of shaping and hierarchy of the paradigm, I rearticulate the disciplinary paradigm evolution of STS from the viewpoint of the feature and the function. The paper asserts that STS comprises of the logical beginning, the research approaches, the interpreting context and the social institution. Insisting the principle of the history and logic unified, traces the origin of modern STS, analyzes the germination of modern STS thought in science studies and technology studies; using interdisciplinary, the comparison research etc. analytical methods, inspects the shaping of the contemporary STS disciplinary paradigm, pointing out that although STS has realized the social institutionalization initially, the inherent and consistent disciplinary paradigm which effects the leading influence is still shaping in STS domain; at present the STS research is moving toward a plurality, and its disciplinary study is also transforming.In conclusion, the approach of STS research may tend to plurality, but the value of the demands of more and more unified, and interpreted in two ways by the demands of the unity of the value of STS. The paper ultimately proposes some questions that can be further studied. Based on the synthetical studies of the STS discipline, this dissertation tries to present a kind of the holisitc understanding, and the theoretic speculation on the further development of STS.