从社会回应模式看青少年离家出走现象

青少年离家出走问题已经成为全球性的社会现象,以西方研究社会问题的社会历史视角为基础提出的两个核心观点为"社会现象成为社会问题经历了发展的过程"和"社会各种人群或组织在社会问题的发展过程中给与了回应",从中可提炼出新的社会问题的研究模式,即社会回应模式。并通过应用中国"青少年离家出走"现象的发展过程来探讨这一社会回应模式在中国的适用性十分必要。研究发现,20世纪80年代至21世纪初期间(1980-2003年),青少年离家出走这一社会现象在中国经历了六大阶段的发展过程,并且在整个过程中,社会各人群对这一社会现象都有回应,但相应的社会回应和社会回应的研究仍存在不足。因此,对理论的进一步验证需要填充更多实证的数据,未来研究要进一步关注社会现象新一轮的发展历程和社会回应。

A New Approach to Study Young Adolescents＇ Running Away from Home in China： Proposal of the Social Response Model

Based on the two key assumptions from the perspective of the nature history of social problems which originated from western research, that is ＂social phenomena becoming social problems has gone through stages of development＂ and ＂people or organizations from the society will give response to the social problems during the process＂, this paper refines the existing model and proposes a new research model to study social problems, which is called the Social Response Model. This paper then applies the development history of young adolescents running away from home in China to test the applicability of the new Social Response Model in China. The findings indicate that since 1980s to early 21st century the issue of young adolescents/ running away from home in China has gone through six stages of development and different people/s response in the society to this issue during the process, but the social response and the related research on social response is still lacking. This paper further proposes the direction of future research in China.