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42 1 ( ) Vol.42 No. 1 2009 2 Journal of JiangxiNor al University(Social Sciences) Feb.2009 论社会学的想象力的方法论思想蕴涵 魏永峰 ( , 200444) :在社会学的想象力一书中, 米尔斯在深入批判宏大理论与抽象经验主义 种研究风格的基础上, 建构了一个新的方法论思想体系这一体系主要包括六个方面内容, 即人类社会的多样性和异质性的基本理 论预设关注重大时代主题的研究价值关怀从个人困扰上升到公众论题的问题提取方法问题中心论的基本 研究原则历史与比较的基本研究视角和适度大理论的理论发展取向这六个方面之间的关系是相互关联 内在一致的由人类社会的多样性异质性的基本理论预设逻辑地决定了把历史与比较作为社会学的基本研 究视角和把适度大理论作为理论的发展取向; 由这一基本理论预设和关注重大时代主题的研究价值关怀共 同决定了必须把个人困扰上升到公众论题和把问题中心论作为研究必须贯彻始终的基本原则 :社会学的想象力; 方法论;米尔斯 :C91- 03 :A : 1000579(2009 On the Methodology Thinking Implication in The Sociological Imagination WEIYongfeng (Depart ent of Social Sciences,Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China) Abstract: The Sociol ogical Imag ination ,written by Mills, deeply criticizes two study styles, that is, grand theory and abstracted e piricis ; at the sa eti e it constructs anew ethodology syste , which consistsof six aspects as following,assu ption ofHu an variety and heterogeneity, focus of thestudy val ue concerning about crucial the esof the ti e, extraction ethodfro personalproble to public issues, basic study principle of proble - oriented theory, basic study perspective fro history and co parison, theoretical develop ent orientation of oderate grand theory.The six aspects interlink each other and share utual connotation. Assu ption of Hu an variety and heterogeneity logically decides that history and co parison are taken as the basicstudy perspective of sociology, while oderategrand theory as the orientation of theoretical develop ent.The above- entioned basic theoretical assu ption and focus of the study value concerning