西方旅游社会学研究进展

Abstract

20世纪 30年代以来 ,旅游社会学研究逐渐成为了一个旅游学与社会学交叉且备受关注和争议的领域 ,研究成果颇丰。文章综合考察了欧美英语国家旅游社会学文献 ,对西方旅游社会学研究进行大胆梳理 ,把西方旅游社会学研究大致划分为 4个阶段 ,即 (1)早期的起源阶段 (“二战”以前 ) ;(2 )过渡时期 (“二战”后至 2 0世纪 6 0年代 ) ;(3)形成和发展时期 (2 0世纪 70～ 80年代 ) ;(4 )系统经验研究时期 (2 0世纪90年代至今 )。认为 ,尽管学科地位仍受质疑 ,但随着旅游社会学研究范围的扩大、研究对象的明晰、研究内容的丰富、研究方法的成熟 ,旅游社会学研究进入了系统经验研究阶段 ,旅游社会学作为独立的研究领域毋庸置疑 ,旅游社会学作为广为接受的独立学科分支也指日可待

The research on tourism sociology has become a cross-disciplinary (between tourism science and sociology) and controversial domain since 1930s and achieved remarkable results.The paper,after reviewing the literatures of tourism sociology in English-speaking countries,divides the research into four stages,i.e.,1.the earlier original stage (before World War Ⅱ);2.the transitional stage (from World War Ⅱ to 1960s); 3.the forming and developing stage (1970s to 1980s); 4.the systematic empirical research stage (from 1990s up to now). Though the academic status of tourism sociology is still questionable, the research of tourism sociology has entered the systematic enpirical research stage with the enlargement of its study scope,clarity of its study object,diversity of its study content and maturity of its study method.Doubtlessly tourism sociology is now a unique research domain and it won't be long before tourism sociology is widely accepted as an independent discipline.