Time

10:00-12:00, Sep. 28^th (Wednesday)

Place

Tencent Meeting

Meeting ID: 583549242

Meeting Password: 220928

Lecture Introduction

In the past half century, in addition to the traditional method of compiling the disciplinary history of sociology, which is to sort out important figures, publications, organizations and institutions in chronological order, the studies of the disciplinary history of sociology have also focused on the complex relationships among academic knowledge, disciplinary institution, interpersonal communication and social background. With the latter focus, the influences of the Cold War on the development of American sociology have been investigated. The scholars pointed out that the government actions and cultural atmosphere brought by the Cold War, such as attaching importance to science and technology, understanding other societies, international cultural publicity and internal controls, had six impacts on American sociology from three aspects of system, culture and ideology:

(1) Academia has become more dependent on government funding;

(2)Interdisciplinary cooperation and self-identification of sociology have deepened;

(3)The research objects and scopes are guided and restricted, and the neutral attitude beyond politics prevails;

(4) The existing tradition of scientism has been further strengthened;

(5) The individual-collective social model has been extended and deepened.

(6) Specific theories and methods such as modernization theory have appeared or have been widely used. Up to this day, some of these influences have disappeared in the United States, while some others have spread to the practices of sociology around the world.

Speaker

Junpeng LI, Ph.D. in Sociology at Columbia University, is a professor at School of Sociology of Central China Normal University. Li’s main research interests include Sociology of Knowledge, Historical Sociology, Cultural Sociology and Political Sociology.

Host

Luyang ZHOU, Ph.D. in Sociology at McGill University at Montreal, is a “ZJU100 Young Professor (B)” at Department of Sociology of Zhejiang University. As a comparative historical sociologist, Zhou has conducted long-term studies in the linkage between nationalism and revolutionary movements.