提到想象力,我们都很容易想到这几类人群:儿童、艺术家和发明家。仿佛,你只有在儿童画、不知所云的诗、天马行空的科幻小说里,才发现了想象。然而,这很可能就是一个“套板反应”。事实上,我们每个人的交流理解,同情共鸣,都在发挥想象。社会科学研究也是如此,我们当下的学者之所以离“思想家”还相差甚远,也可能源于想象的匮乏。真正的思想家不会被知识所累,他们要想象理论的“前景”。美国著名社会学家米尔斯在《社会学的想象力》中,提 When it comes to imagination, we can easily think of these kinds of people: children, artists and inventors. As if you only found the imagination in the children’s painting, the poems you know nothing about, and you know where you are. However, this is likely to be a “slate reaction.” In fact, each of us has an imaginative understanding of communication, sympathy and sympathy. The same is true of social science research. The reason why our current scholars are far from “thinkers” may also stem from the lack of imagination. Real thinkers will not be tainted by knowledge, they want to imagine the theory of “prospects.” Well-known American sociologist Mills in the “sociological imagination” mention