长期以来,档案学研究处于经验性的、初期的阐述阶段,人们将更多的注意力集中在实际问题的解决上而不是理论的概括上,档案学理论常常落后于实践而无法指导实践。档案学研究的这种落后状况在很大程度上与其方法论的贫乏有关,这主要表现在以下方面: (1)档案学研究方法比较单一,更多的是经验的总结和定性的描述; For a long time, archival science research is in the stage of experiential and early exposition. People pay more attention to the solution of practical problems than the generalization of theories. Archival theory often lags behind practice and can not guide practice. The backwardness of archival science research is largely related to its poor methodology. This is mainly manifested in the following aspects: (1) The research methods of archival science are relatively simple and more are the summaries of experiences and the qualitative descriptions;