软科学是一个定义不清、边界模糊的概念,目前只是将支撑民主和科学的整个科学知识体系统称为“软科学”。从这一定义出发,决策的科学化、民主化显然是软科学得以发展的前提。应该说,十余年的改革开放及1986年全国软科学研究工作座谈会,为这一学科的发展开辟了道路,创造了良好的外部条件,但一门学科的确立与发展,关键还在于该学科内 Soft science is a concept of ambiguous definition and vague boundaries. At present, the whole scientific system of knowledge that supports democracy and science is called “soft science”. From this definition, the scientific and democratic decision-making is clearly the prerequisite for the development of soft science. It should be said that more than ten years of reform and opening up and the 1986 Symposium on Soft Science Research have opened the way for the development of this discipline and created favorable external conditions. However, the key to the establishment and development of a discipline lies in that Within the discipline