Ku Agnes Shuk-Mei, Wang Horng-Luen, Choi Jongryul
Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong.
Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Nangang District, Taipei, Taiwan.
Am J Cult Sociol. 2022;10(3):516-534. doi: 10.1057/s41290-021-00127-0. Epub 2021 Feb 5.
The essay reviews the trajectories of cultural sociology in three East Asian societies, namely Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea, which show interesting parallels and distinctive developments within their respective social and historical contexts. Sociologists in these societies in general, and cultural sociologists in particular, have endeavored to reflect on the cultural ramifications of the social and political changes wrought by the processes of modernization, (de-)colonization and democratization. By building on the efforts of their predecessors and taking inspiration from new theoretical ideas from the West, cultural sociologists in these Asian societies have blazed a long trail beyond the conventional approach of the sociology of culture. By seriously considering the analytic autonomy of culture, their works have sought to wrestle with the issues of meaning, identity, morality, trust, everyday life, collective consciousness, community and resistance under the increasing influences of state power, markets and global hegemony.
本文回顾了三个东亚社会，即香港、台湾和韩国的文化社会学发展轨迹，这些轨迹在各自的社会和历史背景下呈现出有趣的相似之处和独特的发展。这些社会的社会学家，尤其是文化社会学家，努力反思现代化、（非）殖民化和民主化进程所带来的社会和政治变革的文化影响。通过借鉴前辈的努力并从西方新的理论思想中汲取灵感，这些亚洲社会的文化社会学家在超越文化社会学传统方法的道路上走出了很远。通过认真考虑文化的分析自主性，他们的作品试图在国家权力、市场和全球霸权日益增长的影响下，探讨意义、身份、道德、信任、日常生活、集体意识、社区和抵抗等问题。
