相较于对过去和当下经验的再现，“未来”的重要性被社会学研究忽视，甚至始终未能进入其主流视野。21世纪以来，社会学正在重启对“未来”的研究兴趣，并思考通往“未来”的新认识通道和知识生产方式。当前，“未来”不仅获得了现代意涵，还逐渐成为考察社会变迁中人类能动性和时间开放性的重要认识范畴。围绕“现实未来”“主观未来”“潜在未来”和“替代未来”，未来社会学研究以多元化的研究进路，通往真切的人类未来经验、潜在的社会进程和可欲的发展空间。 

In comparison to the representation of past and present experiences, the importance of the future has long been overlooked by sociological research and has never entered the mainstream domain. Since the 21st century, sociology has been reviving its interest in the future and thinking the new cognitive channels and ways of knowledge production towards the future. In current situation, the future has gained its modern connotation and become an important cognition category for understanding human agency and the openness of time in social transition. Centered on "objective future”, "subjective future", "latent future” and "alternative future", the sociological research of future explores diverse approaches to authentic experiences of human future, latent social processes, and desirable development spaces.

本文系国家社会科学基金项目“基层社会利益治理的抗解性及应对研究”（23BSH080）的阶段性成果之一。

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