【作者简介】刘幼迟，中国人民大学社会学理论与方法研究中心

【文章来源】《社会学评论》2025年第4期

【内容提要】本文引入社会因素的效用函数，分析了社会博弈对技术应用中的路径依赖和锁闭打破的影响机制。在新旧技术并存的条件下，即使新技术可以给博弈各方带来物质收益的增加，但由于存在相对地位和人情关系对效用的影响，新技术选择未必成为博弈参与各方的优势策略，对旧技术的路径依赖依然可能持续。但相对地位和人情关系并非总是维系旧技术路径的保守力量，在一定条件下，它们在技术应用的社会博弈中也会扮演打破锁闭的积极角色。该现象在企业基于新旧技术选择的内部各部门的社会博弈、内部上下层级关系的处理以及企业的外部市场关系中都存在。本研究有助于理性预测新技术在应用中可能遭遇的社会障碍。

【关键词】新技术 / 路径依赖 / 社会博弈 / 相对地位 / 人情关系

【全文链接】http://src.ruc.edu.cn/CN/Y2025/V13/I4/202

The Social Game Analysis of Technological Path Dependence:Taking the Promotion of a New Scheme in a Certain Enterprise as an Example

Abstract: This paper based on a utility function that incorporates social factors, analyzes the impact of social games on the path dependence and lock-in breaking mechanisms in the application of technology.The analysis shows that under the condition of coexistence of old and new technologies, even if the new technology can bring an increase in material benefits to all parties in the game,due to the impact of relative status and interpersonal relationships on utility, the choice of new technology may not necessarily become the dominant strategy for all parties involved in the game, and the path dependence on old technology may still continue.The analysis also shows that relative status and interpersonal relationships are not always conservative forces that maintain the old technology path. Under certain conditions,they play an active role in breaking the lock-in during social games in technology applications.Combined with case analysis, the above characteristics exist in the internal social games of enterprises based on the choice of old and new technologies, in the handling of internal hierarchical relationships, and in the external market relationships of enterprises. This study contributes to the rational prediction of potential social barries in the application of new technologies.