【作者简介】刘思达，王思凝，香港大学

【文章来源】《社会学评论》2026年第2期

【内容提要】长期以来，传统社会学芝加哥学派的学术史研究囿于“中心化”视角，聚焦于芝加哥大学及其核心学者的在地化经验，而忽视了学派思想在全球流动中的动态重构。本文以“去中心化”为方法论，突破地理与机构的边界，通过对加拿大社会学家与芝加哥学派之间的跨国流动的考察，以及对燕京学派的犯罪研究如何融合和转化芝加哥学派研究方法的分析，揭示了学派历史并非静止于单一地点、局限于少数学者，而是在多重时空中，通过学者生命经验与学术网络的动态互动不断生成与演变。本文的去中心化研究路径不仅丰富了社会学芝加哥学派的历史图景，更为理解学术传统的全球传播与本土转化提供了新的理论和方法启示。

【关键词】学术史 / 去中心化 / 芝加哥学派 / 加拿大社会学 / 燕京学派

【全文链接】http://src.ruc.edu.cn/CN/Y2026/V14/I2/149

Decentering Academic History: A Case Study of the Chicago School of Sociology

Abstract: Traditional studies on the academic history of the Chicago School of Sociology have long been confined to a“centralized”perspective, focusing on the localized experiences of the University of Chicago and its core scholars while neglecting the dynamic reconstruction of the school’s ideas through global circulation. Adopting a“decentering”methodology, this paper transcends geographical and institutional boundaries to reveal the multi-temporal and spatial networks of the school’s knowledge production, using Canada and China as two illustrative case studies. Through an in-depth analysis of transnational intellectual exchanges between Canadian sociologists and the Chicago School, as well as an examination of how the Yenching School’s criminological research assimilated and transformed the Chicago School’s methodologies, this study demonstrates that the history of the school is not a static product confined to a single location or a handful of scholars. Instead, it is continuously shaped and reshaped through dynamic interactions between scholars’lived experiences and academic networks across multiple temporal and spatial contexts. This decentering approach not only enriches the historical narrative of the Chicago School of Sociology but also offers new theoretical and methodological insights for understanding the global dissemination and local adaptation of academic traditions.