从社会变迁的视角或借助社会学的社会变迁理论和方法研究青年,是青年研究中比较普遍或通行的做法。在某种意义上说,青年研究的绝大部分成果即是关于青年与社会变迁的研究。这既与社会学自身的学科属性、学科特征使其较比其他学科对青年有更多的关注有关,也决定于青年自身的特点。青年向来被认为是时代精神的传感器,是社会变迁的晴雨表,青年对社会(特别是近现代社会以来)的某些变化,总是 Studying youth from the perspective of social change or through the theory and method of social change in sociology is a common or popular practice in youth studies. In a sense, most of the fruits of youth research are studies on youth and social change. This is both related to sociology’s own academic attributes and disciplinary features that make it more relevant to young people than other disciplines and to the characteristics of young people themselves. Youth has always been regarded as a sensor of the spirit of the times, a barometer of social changes, and certain changes in youth (especially since modern times) have always been