旅游社会学研究的理论流派

现今,旅游社会学研究已形成众多理论流派,其中较具代表性的有七种:发展演进学说,新迪尔凯姆学说,冲突和批判学说,功能主义学说,韦伯主义学说,形式主义、现象学和人种学方法论,符号互动主义。不同理论流派从不同角度审视了旅游社会现象,为旅游社会学研究提供了崭新的视角,并共同推动了旅游学研究的进展。

On the Theoretical Approaches of Tourism Sociology

There exitst a variety of theoretical approaches in the research of tourism sociology nowadays. This article is a review of seven typical theoris respectively. They are developmental (evolutionary and cyclical) perspectives, neo-Durkheimian perspectives, conflict and critical perspectives, functionalist perspectives, Weberian perspectives, formalism, phenomenology and ethnomethodology, and symbolic interactionism. Each of the theoretical approaches has contributed to the study of contemporary tourism and offers new perspective to the understanding of the phenomena and promotes the research of tourism sociology.