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Issue9 专业化Vs复合化,边缘化;涉及到判断标准
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作者:dezhi 共用时间:45分1秒 540 words
从2004年2月16日18时36分到2004年2月16日19时45分
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Academic disciplines have become so specialized in recent years that scholars' ideas reach only a narrow audience. Until scholars can reach a wider audience, their ideas will have little use.
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Position disagree
1、反驳“专业化会带来更少的观众”:学科专业化并不表明懂得它的人就很少,这与学科的性质有关,一些自然科学涉及专深的理论,因此普通人很难理解;而一些社会科学方面的研究,关注的是与人民生活息息相关的社会现象,它的专业化反而会吸引更多的人,比如对人口问题的研究
2、没必要:不是说是否reach a wider audience 是评价有用无用的标志,而在于思想家,科学家,艺术家的ideas 都是不能reach wide audience的,但是他们的ideas对于相应领域的发展,对于社会的进步都是十分重要的。或许这个才是评价其有用性的标志。
3、不可能:一个十分专业的领域 有wide audience,这是不可能的。由学者教?对学者讲,费时费力费人;对人们来说,他们能理解这些高深的理论吗?
忍不住说一声:你的1和3不是自相矛盾吗?
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The speaker asserts that the specialization of academic disciplines in recent years has kept scholars' ideas from being understood by more people, which finally lead to their little usage. I disagree with the speaker, for the simple reason that there are faults in the cause-and-effect reasoning.
First of all, the specialization of academic disciplines does not necessary result in a narrow audience of scholars' ideas. It depends on the nature of disciplines. As we know, the academic disciplines can be divided into two classes: the scientific disciplines and the social ones. On the one hand, as to scientific area, it is necessary to make further researches to uncover more mysterious phenomenon of the world, going more and more specialized, which results in a narrow audience. On the other hand, concerning about the social disciplines, the specialization helps to reach a wider audience, as their further study into the social problems attract attentions from more people. The problem of population is a case in point. It has been studied futher since the last century, and more and more people became aware of it, which has immensely advanced our living environment. As a result, we ought not to simply come to the conclusion that specialization would surely lead to a narrow audience.
Secondly, there is no need for scholars in some scientific research areas to make their ideas known by a wider audience. The standard of judging scholars' ideas is not the number of audience who understand the content, but their contribution to other ideas, the society or itsITS指代谁?用THE好了 people, direct or indirect. As far as the scientists themselves concerned, if some idea or theory can form the foundation of other theories or enlighten the inspiration or other experts, it is surely considered to be useful, though it may not be known to more ordinary people. As to ordinary people, to know the fundamental principles or mechanism of the scholars' ideas is a waste of time, for what they concern about is just how to use them. Take the well-known system software Windows for instance. There are so many people all around the world who use this excellent program everyday, but few of them know how it works. However, without a wider audience, this software is never of little use. In a word, to make scholars' ideas known to more is not necessary indeed.
Furthermore, it is almost impossible for both the scholars and the public to make abstruse ideas understood by more ordinary people. 前面这句最好加个限定,在自然科学领域,否则就是和你的第2段自相矛盾了 To achieve this goal, the scholars are required to teach ordinary people their ideas or theories which are difficult to learn. 可以写科普书啊,比如STEPHEN HAWKING的《时间简史》这本书 Nevertheless, this would not do people any good这个地方太绝对了,至少可以激起青年学习科学的兴趣 while wasting much of the scholars' time in further research. Considering the audience, are they wise enough to absorb ideas from different experts which are hard to learn? Do they have time to spend time on it? So it is beyond their ability to understand these ideas.也许普通群众中有一些天才儿童呢?
To sum up, there is no need for scholars to concern about the number of audience. Whether their ideas are useful depends on their contributions to other scientific fields and the society. Even if they reach only a narrow audience sometimes, they are greatly cherished by the society.
总的来说还不错,从文字到论证。缺点在上面都指出来了。好象比以前进步了。加油! |
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