Transcending the"Ying Chengyi Dilemma":Methodological Imagination and Indigenous Strategy of Social Surveys in Early China
The social survey of Chinese scholars in the early 20th century has produced rich research outcomes.Due to tough conditions of doing social surveys,an early sociologist Ying Chengyi once proposed"a Chinese society that is not suitable of conducting social surveys".Based on the interactions between the"Western technique"and the"Chinese context",Chinese scholars established and extended the methodological imagination according to their personal experiences of fieldwork.They also adapted and revised research methods based on the encountered"troubles",and developed local strategies that match the social reality.Early Chinese Sociologists expanded the connotation of social survey methods through actions.Their intellectual resilience is also an important historical resource for the construction of Chinese autonomous sociological knowledge system in the new era.
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