新社会文化史的兴起与西方现代史学之流变//[The Rise of New Social and Cultural History and the Development of Modern Western Historiography]

The so-called New Cultural History in the West rose in the late 20 th century and has become the dominant trend in the historical studies across Europe and America. This new trend brought a paradigm shift, in Thomas Kuhnʼs sense, in the academic discipline of history.This new paradigm in historical research has occurred in the background of new developments in the social movements for human rights and womenʼs rights as well as scientific breakthrough in modern physics.This article will try to introduce some of the underlying theoretical assumptions as well as a few key analytical concepts of the new paradigm so as to delineate a rough profile of this post-modern school of history.
新(社会)文化史在上世纪晚期蓬勃兴起,成为西方现代史学的主流,给历史学科带来了范式的转变,影响深远。这一范式的转变是在西方社会以民权、女权和广义族裔意识觉醒为特征的民众运动的兴起和民主制度进一步扩张的背景下发生的,也是在科学理论新突破的基础上实现的。这一新史学范式在欧美学术界盛行至今,刷新了传统史学的一系列理论假设和概念框架,给史学研究带来了新视野、新方法、新灵感和新认知,取得了丰硕的成果。本文拟将这一学术发展置于其所发生的社会和学术背景下,对新范式所根据的后现代理论假设和几个核心概念做一些简明扼要的阐释,从而勾勒出新范式独特的轮廓。