Abstract

In Taiwan\'s academic circle, sociology is a late comer with a rather small size of population. Among all of the sociologists, American-trained Ph. D. holders occupy an overwhelming amount. As a result, influenced by positivism as the main trend of thought dominated in American sociology, American-trained Taiwanese sociologists, particularly those holding the positions in the major research and teaching institutions, forms as a dominant power-holding ideological clique. They play an important role in shaping the development of Taiwan sociology through a mean by controlling the various institutionalized channels of opportunity. To a small-sized academic community just in the beginning stage of promotion like Taiwan sociology, such a power-centralized process of institutionaliztion will hazard to the future wellness of structure of the entire community if sociology is considered as a discipline desperatedly required to concern with the cultural meaning of locality embedded in social phenomena investigated.

Keywords: Taiwan sociology, clique of power-holder, divergent problem, convergent problem

摘要

台湾社会学是一个起步较晚、从业人口迷你短小的学术社群，其中的成员以留学美国、且具有博士学位的居多数。在这样的情况下，美国社会学中居主流地位的实证主义传统，不自主地移植到台湾，成为社会学界潜藏的主流意识，并因而形塑出一个潜在的权力集团。尤其，在近年来，国内学术界提出「学术研究国际化以追求卓越」的口号，在政府中之学术行政单位极力的配合与鼓动下，台湾地区学术研究更形被「建置化」，这更加有利于各个学门中之权力集团的形成与进行操纵。对学术人口迷你短小的社会学社群而言，尤其，考虑到其研究乃针对着人的「散发性」存在意义，这样一