【作者简介】王智慧，中国人民大学体育部、中国人民大学社会与人口学院、中国人民大学体育与社会发展研究中心教授，主要研究方向为运动社会学、身体社会学与文化社会学。

【文章来源】《社会学评论》第4期

【内容提要】本文以奥运金牌的物质性和社会符号意义为视角，试图在“社会的社会学”和“联结的社会学”两种对立范式之间寻找交互融合的解释机制，以探讨金牌嵌入社会文化之中的行动逻辑，考察金牌与其他行动者交互所建构的社会事实。金牌在从被激活到发挥能动作用，再到语境再造的社会生命历程中，转化为一种社会生产力，促进了奥运冠军等行动者的社会阶序跃迁，激励了竞技体育从业者行为，在群体中创造了区隔与联结；金牌在礼俗社会中的嵌入，揭示了现代性背景下人情关系互动的变异趋势和价值属性，以及社会交换互动和权力运行的微观生态。随着金牌进入展陈状态，它不但促进了社会记忆的再语境化，延续了“物之活力”，而且表意了新文化空间的生成，形塑了一种社会网络体系和文化传承机制。

【关键词】物的社会生命；行动者网络理论；语境化；奥林匹克运动；体育文化

【全文链接】http://src.ruc.edu.cn/CN/Y2023/V11/I4/137

The Social Life of the Olympic Gold Medal: An Interactive Social Interpretation of Gold Medal and Actors

WANG Zhi-hui

Abstract：Aiming at the materiality and symbolism of Olympic gold medals,we tried to find an interactive and integrated explanation mechanism within the “sociology of the social”and“sociology of associations”, the logic of how gold medals embed in social culture, and the social facts constructed by gold medals and other actors. After the gold medals are activated, they enter the reconstruction of the context of social life: they would be transformed into a kind of social productivity, which promotes the social order transition of Olympic champions and other actors, stimulates the behavior of competitive sports practitioners, and divides while connecting the group. In the social embedding of gemeinschaft,the gold medals reveal the variation trend and value attribute of human interaction under the background of modernity, as well as the micro-ecology of social interaction and power operation. Later, gold medals enter the exhibition state,which not only promotes the recontextualization of social memory and continues the“vitality of things”but also indicates the generation of new cultural space and shapes a social network and cultural inheritance mechanism.

Keywords:the social life of things, actor-network theory, context, OlympicMovement, sports culture