| Indigenization of sociology is an important topic in the history of Chinese academic. In recent years, with the domestic and international environments’changes, the calls for indigenization resurge. Especially after The eighteenth National Congress of the CPC, around the Chinese road debate, such an issue arises:why China always faces the challenges in cultural field when an economic success is made. So there is an urgent need for the indigenization in sociology and other disciplines. which is closely related to the prosperity of the Chinese social sciences.However, there is huge diversity of opinion on the issues of indigenization. The questions such as "What is the indigenization" and "How to do" and other issues remain to be further explored. In my opinion, this topic should be explored at a more basic level from the perspective of the Theory of Knowledge. Currently, the study carried out from this perspective is far from systematic. Few achievements have been gained in sociology in mainland of China.This study focuses on the two aspects of such a topic——history and theory. Firstly, we make an systematic review on the issues of Indigenization of sociology in China, and summerised the history by five stages. Based on it, we made an classification of the opinions about this topic. We categorized five types of indigenization advocates:1. Introduction and Application of the Discipline:2. Validation and Correction of the Theories.3. Localization of Consciousness of Problems;4. Chinese History and Society Particularism;5. Culture and Academy Autonomism.Secondly, we tried to disclose the fundamental logic of those different types of opinions. This study began with the review of the Dispute of Historicism in German social science history. Then, we examined from different approaches in the theory of knowledge related to this topic. All these perspectives argue a specific kind of viewpoint opposite to universalism in social science. These epistemological reflections can be roughly divided into the following four perspectives:1, hermeneutic perspective;2,complexity perspective;3, practical perspective;4, powers perspective.On this basis, we further discuss a number of methodological issues related to the indigenization topics, such as quantitative methods VS. qualitative methods; fundamental researcn VS. applied research, methodological holism VS. methodological individualism, etc. Finally, we have also established a coordinates based on such two dimensions:one is from the particularity to the university, the other is from the factuality to the value. The five types of opinions of indigenization can each take a position in this coordinates.At last, we pointed out that three aspects should be paid attention to when we put forward the movement of academic indigenization:1, Enhancement of Chinese autonomy;2, Perspective of methodological holism;3, the historical particularity of the real problems under the cotemporary context. |
