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今年4月1～5日,由中国科学院《自然辩证法通讯》编辑部、南开大学社会学系等发起和主持的全国科学社会学第二届学术讨论会,在天津南开大学召开。这是时隔五年多我国科学社会学界的又一次重要的学术会议。会议的议题是:①科学社会学理论研究和理论评价;②科学社会学实证研究;③科学与社会的互动和科学的文化意义。正如会议发起者和许多与会者所预料的,在正式出席会议的40名代表中,真正从事科学社会学研究工作的还是少数(上海尤其少)。但会议议题“科学与社会的互动”却吸引了许多人的兴趣,虽然这方面的讨论属于更宽泛的“科学与社会”问题,而不属于现今较严格、较专业化的科学社会学问题。笔者在参加这次会议过程中,会上会下曾与一些同行交谈;有几个问题令笔者留下了深刻的印象。
From April 1 to April 5 this year, the 2nd National Symposium on Scientific Sociology, sponsored and presided over by the Editorial Department of Dialectics of Nature in Sciences, Department of Sociology, Nankai University, was held in Nankai University, Tianjin. This is another important academic conference that lasted more than five years in the scientific community in our country. The topics for the conference are: ① theoretical and theoretical evaluation of sociology of science; ② empirical study of sociology of science; ③ interaction of science and society and scientific cultural significance. As the organizers of the conference and many participants predicted, among the 40 delegates who attended the conference, there are still quite a few (especially less in Shanghai) who are actually engaged in research in sociology of science. However, the topic of the conference, “Interaction between Science and Society”, has attracted the interest of many people. Although discussions in this area belong to the broader issue of “science and society,” they are not part of the more rigorous and specialized sociology of science today. In the process of attending this meeting, I talked with some colleagues at the conference; there were several questions that left a deep impression on the author.