email with Guiquan, 提到他在读的Miachael Mann的《社会权力的来源》
突然想到，用政治、经济、意识形态、军事四种权力来源来分析中国社会的social structure，阐释structure hegemony的变迁，以及基于这样的structure，agents不同的hegemony strategy，的确是个思路。
突然想到，用政治、经济、意识形态、军事四种权力来源来分析中国社会的social structure，阐释structure hegemony的变迁，以及基于这样的structure，agents不同的hegemony strategy，的确是个思路。
可我该想想怎样把韦伯取向的分析视角纳入到critical realism中来？
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是Michael Mann。我之前拼错了。刚刚写了点东西，细想又不妥，删掉了。还是先听听你说的critical realism具体是什么意思吧。我仅在莫斯可的传播政治经济学和哈克特、赵月枝的维系民主里见过。这里讨论民族主义，具体怎么用呢？
Dear Guiquan, thanks for your attention and comment:)
Realism stresses the separation of thought and being and the primacy of being over thought. For the critical realists, the knowledge or thought may develop or change, but the objects of this knowledge will remain as they are.
They consider the world is ordered and structured in a certain way, and so knowledge is possible.
However, they recognize this in its notion of ontological depth. And so they attempt to move from one level of explanation to an underlying one. When a stratum of reality has been described, the next step is to examine what mechanisms underlie or intersect with this level. So it is a radical approach focusing on processes of emergence and change.
How can I use it? I hope to use the concept of hegemony as my framework to study Chinese nationalism. You know, the hegemony is normally understood as emphasizing consent in contrast to reliance on the use of force. And it normally argues that the position of the ruling group is not automatically given, but rather that it requires the ruling group to attain consent to its leadership through the complex construction of political projects and social alliances.
Nevertheless, it just stress the agential aspect of hegemony, and will leads to a Machiavellian view of politics as if hegemony were simply the conscious project of different social groups. Therefore, it just sees important social processes as simply the products of significant social actors. From the critical realism perspective, although human beings create hegemony through their actions, they do so under certain social conditions not of their own choosing. Therefore, they distinct two types of hegemony, concerned with structural hegemony and a surface hegemony of actual hegemonic projects.
Under such concept, I just hope to study the relationship between Chinese official and popular nationalism in different time periods and the characteristics of Chinese nationalism displayed in the Beijing Olympics. But I haven’t consider it in detail.
赞!确实是训练有素.这是Critical Realism and Hegemony: Hic Rhodus, Hic Saltus的思想吗? 看来是将葛兰西的理论深化了。
我知之不多, 就不乱说话了。不过我想起以前问赵月枝，为什么用批判现实主义的认识论？她说其实心里觉得辨证唯物主义更清楚。但在她的书里，批判现实主义的观点已经够用了，能解释问题了，所以就用这个。
所以我想研究是要将问题与理论联系起来，提出问题要顺着理论走，并以理论解答问题----这也是我在考虑的。
盼这个dissertation ideas 继续写。。
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