| 英文摘要 |
Considering the fact that the scholarship on modernity in the field of law and society studies (hereafter LSS) was presented in terms of either historical-conceptual research or contemporary-empirical research, this study attempts to propose a third way of conducting modernity studies in LSS: establishing a four-fold topology of distinct theoretical viewpoints and their respective implementations in empirical studies in order to draw contributions and implications to Taiwanese LSS. Composed of three parts, this study first starts from the modernity studies in Taiwanese sociology and sets a typology in terms of two dimensions: the human subject as agency or consequence, and the modern as necessary or contingency. Among the four-fold typology, this study locates respectively the theoretical paradigms of J. Habermas, N. Luhmann, M. Foucault, and B. Latour. Secondly, this study reviews the main scholarships based on the four different paradigms in LSS, analyzes the approaches they conducted, their empirical studies, and their contributions to applying or developing the theoretical themes, and draws some implications from English-based LSS to Taiwanese LSS. Lastly, this study concludes with an observation of the changing faces of the ‘legal’ (or the ‘law’) and ‘the social’ (or the ‘society’) projected from these four theoretical paradigms. In order to shorten the distance between the theoretical studies and empirical studies in LSS, both in English and Taiwanese academia, this comparison-oriented typology would enrich the scholarship on modernity in the field of LSS in the future. |
