在涂尔干出版《自杀论》以后的100多年中,统计学和计算机技术迅速发展,社会科学的定量研究技术也相应得到了不断的发展与革新。尽管社会科学尚没有取得像自然科学一样的显著成就,但是在许多研究者看来,社会科学在方法上已逐渐向自然科学靠拢。作为具有象征意义的知识规范,主流期刊的学术标准已体现出人们对于科学方法的 In the more than 100 years after Durkheim’s publication of Suicide, statistics and computer technology developed rapidly, and the quantitative research technology in social science has been continuously developed and innovated accordingly. Although the social sciences have not achieved the same remarkable achievements as the natural sciences, in many researchers’ view, the social sciences have gradually moved towards the natural sciences. As a symbol of the norms of knowledge, academic standards of mainstream journals have shown that people for the scientific method