This article identifies two tendencies in left-wing approaches toward the social sciences. The first expresses skepticism towards science as a kind of product of the ruling ideology that solely reproduces the status quo. The second worries about the capacity of scientific inquiry to actually change people's ingrained beliefs and prejudices. Antonio Gramsci and W.E.B. Du Bois are representative of these two diverging approaches. Their views on science, however, offer more commonalities than at first meet the eye. They are both critical of sociological traditions that seek to discover universal laws of society, arguing that such an approach fails to grasp the complexity of causality and the role of human action in shaping their lives and history. On the other hand, both see the potential for rigorous and nuanced scientific analysis to offer grounds for concrete action and warn off wishful thinking. By combining their views, this article presents a conception of the role and potential of social scientific inquiry for progressive movements toward social change that navigates between the double-sided concerns represented by Gramsci and Du Bois.

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科学的两次左转：葛兰西和杜波依斯论社会科学的解放潜力

本文指出了左翼社会科学方法的两种倾向。第一个表达了对科学的怀疑，科学是一种仅仅再现现状的统治意识形态的产物。第二个问题担心科学探究是否有能力真正改变人们根深蒂固的信仰和偏见。安东尼奥·葛兰西和韦伯·杜波依斯是这两种不同方法的代表。然而，他们对科学的看法比乍一看有更多的共同点。他们都对寻求发现社会普遍规律的社会学传统持批评态度，认为这种方法未能把握因果关系的复杂性以及人类行为在塑造其生活和历史中的作用。另一方面，双方都看到了严格而细致的科学分析的潜力，可以为具体行动提供基础，并防止一厢情愿的想法。通过结合他们的观点，本文提出了社会科学探究对于社会变革进步运动的作用和潜力的概念，在葛兰西和杜波依斯代表的双面关注之间进行导航。