《台灣社會學》

本文從敘事認同與 Karl Mannheim 關於世代研究的理論角度，探討一九七○年代台灣為何與如何形成特殊的回歸現實世代，分析其回歸現實理念與世代認同之關係。七○年代初台灣的外交挫敗，使不同省籍的年輕知識份子廣泛覺醒，以中國近代國族歷史敘事來理解台灣處境與自己這一代的責任，並批判流亡心態，呼籲回歸現實與社會政治改革。他們的世代認同鑲嵌在國族歷史敘事中：使其成為回歸現實世代的，是他們在國族歷史敘事中定位自我、尋求存在意義而積極實踐的結果。國族歷史敘事所形塑的世代認同，是特定社會變遷的產物，也是激發社會變遷的重要能動，它是一種歷史現象。「世代」是覺悟啟蒙的戰後知識份子用來理解自我、社會、與時代，並企圖改變現狀的概念範疇。研究這個關鍵世代的言論與活動，有助於了解晚近台灣文化、政治本土化或台灣化的長遠源頭與其他相關的歷史變遷。

The author uses a combination of narrative identity theory and Karl Mannheim's theory of generation to a) analyze the emergence of a "back-to-reality" generation in 1970s Taiwan and b) examine the relationship be-tween their back-to-reality ideas and generational identity. Taiwan's ma-jor diplomatic failures in the early 1970s awakened young intellectuals (both Taiwanese natives and the children of mainland Chinese) to new challenges facing the country. They relied on a modern Chinese national-ist historical narrative to make sense of the situation and to promote a sense of duty to the country among other members of their generation, attacking the prevailing sojourn mentality and supporting back-to-reality ideas and socio-political reforms. The author shows that the frame of reference for generational identity was a nationalist historical narrative, within which in-tellectuals positioned themselves and struggled to make sense of their gen-eration's meaning of existence. Their attempts to act out their philosophy qualify them as Taiwan's "back-to-reality" generation. I offer an analysis of how a generational identity shaped by a nationalist historical narrative evolved into a primary motivation for historical actors, noting that gener-ational consciousness was a function of specific social change, which in turn became an agency that facilitated further social change. In this situ-ation, generation--a conceptual category through which the awakening back-to-reality generation understood self and society and articulated its socio-political reformism--was a historical phenomenon in which subjec-tive agency and objective environmental conditions were of equal signifi-cance. It is important to study this generation's discourses and actions as remote origins of the indigenization or Taiwanization of contemporary Ta-iwanese politics and culture.