#social process

CHARLES HORTON COOLEY WAS AN AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST, PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, AND FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, KNOWN FOR HIS CONCEPT OF THE LOOKING GLASS SELF, WHICH IS THE CONCEPT THAT A PERSON'S SELF GROWS OUT OF SOCIETY'S INTERPERSONAL INTERACTIONS AND THE PERCEPTIONS OF OTHERS.

CHARLES HORTON COOLEY

M. John Harrison

CHARLES HORTON COOLEY WAS AN AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST. HE STUDIED AND WENT ON TO TEACH ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, WAS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION IN 1905 AND BECAME ITS EIGHTH PRESIDENT IN 1918. HE IS PERHAPS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS CONCEPT OF THE LOOKING-GLASS SELF, WHICH IS THE CONCEPT THAT A PERSON'S SELF GROWS OUT OF SOCIETY'S INTERPERSONAL INTERACTIONS AND THE PERCEPTIONS OF OTHERS.

翻譯了李瑞中老師推薦的謝宇（李師最愛！）和吳曉剛（似乎是林宗弘的老師）的一篇評論回應。不得不說，儘管「社會研究方法甲上」只是一門大學部必修，但這學期在李師的提點下還是想通和澄清了不少量化研究的概念，特別是他一直耳提面命的大方向：理論與資料之間的關係，統計方法不能取代的理論功能，社會科學思維與統計思維的差異云云。回到第一節課開的reading，謝宇的《社會學方法與定量研究》，其中一大重點就是要理解和留心Otis Dudley Duncan所謂「統計至上主義」──即「計算是做研究的同義詞之想法，統計是科學方法論的完全或充分基礎之天真信念，統計公式是為了評估不同實質理論的相對價值之類而存在之迷信」──的謬誤和危害。而這篇謝宇為自己的文章辯論的文章，或許對此也有所裨益。

Las formas violentas e ingenuas que toma, sus justificaciones políticamente correctas de vanas pretensiones altruistas... pero necesario como motor de la asistencia o curiosidad. ^_^

So so sad!