在這個1980年代中期以來逐漸由過去「選舉中心」投票民主轉向以「討論為中心」的社會中，主張公民應透過知情、理性、平等之社會溝通後參與集體決定的審議民主，要求公民更細緻地進行文化詮釋並介入社會行動。韋伯（Weber, M.）認為「行動是社會的，是行為的個體將主觀意義賦予在行動上、考慮他人的行為，並在行動過程中指向他人。」然而，在行動之前的行為個體主觀意義如何形成，仰賴行動者的文化詮釋能力。本課程邀請修課學生藉由文化表徵的分析與詮釋（analysis and interpretation of cultural representations）學習理解人們如何理解自身及其所處的社會，並且練習批判性地提出關於文化詮釋的見解，期能更適切地評估自身的位置與可能可以採取的社會行動策略。以近年來在臺中市與公民日常生活密切相關的「參與式預算」、「新移民/移工」、「抵抗都市更新」、「食農」等議題為對象，本課程提供修課修課學生進行文化詮釋與社會行動實作，並依據「問題研析、實作方法、批判反思」三階段進行。修課學生將多次至臺中市博物館與審議民主現場參與活動或上課，藉此體悟文化與公民行動的關聯，並對社會現況提出批判，檢視社會行動在臺中市之實踐及其更多的可能性。因此，文化詮釋既是本課程內容，同時也是問題意識，而社會行動作則為方法，一方面促進修課同學理解社會現實，另一方面則鼓勵其對臺灣社會問題背後的文化詮釋提出社會學批判。

In this society that has gradually shifted from the past "election-centered" voting democracy to a "discussion-centered" society since the mid-1980s, deliberative democracy that advocates that citizens should participate in collective decisions through informed, rational, and equal social communication requires citizens to conduct more detailed cultural interpretations and participate in social actions. Weber (M.) believes that "action is social, and it is the individual who acts that gives subjective meaning to the action, considers the actions of others, and points to others during the action." However, how the individual subjective meaning of the action is formed before the action depends on the actor's cultural interpretation ability. This course invites students to learn to understand how people understand themselves and the society they live in through the analysis and interpretation of cultural representations, and to practice critically proposing opinions on cultural interpretation, hoping to more appropriately evaluate their own position and possible social action strategies. Focusing on issues such as "participatory budgeting", "new immigrants/migrant workers", "resistance to urban renewal", and "food farmers" that have been closely related to citizens' daily lives in Taichung City in recent years, this course provides students with courses to conduct cultural interpretation and social action implementation, and is based on the three stages of "problem analysis, implementation methods, and critical reflection". Students taking the course will participate in activities or take classes at the Taichung City Museum and deliberative democracy sites many times to understand the connection between culture and civic action, criticize the current social situation, and examine the practice of social action in Taichung City and its possibilities. Therefore, cultural interpretation is not only the content of this course, but also problem awareness, and social action is a method. On the one hand, it promotes students in the course to understand social reality, and on the other hand, it encourages them to put forward sociological criticism of the cultural interpretation behind Taiwan's social problems.

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3. 2015，《30雜誌：社會設計的18個創新》，臺北市：遠見天下。

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