方法论意味着在某一门学问或所要探索的知识领域上，对所使用的个别方法加以整合、比较探讨与批判。与其他学科相比，社会学研究的方法更为多样化。因而，在研究中方法论的选择对于研究者而言尤为重要。
受到全球化的深刻影响，越来越多的研究选择在跨国视角下进行，这不仅要求研究者对社会学思想与理论有全面的把握，同时也要求研究者既要对自己"本土"的经验有深刻的理解，又不能将目光仅局限于"本土"经验。在中国与欧洲的社会学研究中，由于对于方法论的偏好不同，也使得在研究范式上产生差异，进而产生不同的研究路径；在实际操作中，跨文化的环境为田野调查也带来了重重困难。这些都将对研究产生影响，也是本次论坛所要讨论的主题。
本论坛旨在搭建一个国际学术交流的平台，促进中国与法国的青年学生之间的交流与合作。通过现场讨论和来自中国与法国的教授的共同指导与评论，形成跨文化的思维碰撞，从而形成新的认识。
9:00-10:00 Introduction and group photo
Professor Liu Yuzhao, Vice Dean of School of Sociology and Political Science, Shanghai University
Professor Laurence Roulleau-Berger, Research Director at National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Triangle, ENS Lyon, co-Director of the LIA
Discussant: Professor Liu Yuzhao and JiYingchun
1 hour for presentations (15 mins for each presentation) & 45 minutes for comments and discussions
1. Victor Remy, Lyon II University, Doing fieldwork on the fringe - ethnographic visits in a charity-ran shelter in Shanghai (Discussant：SU Liang)
2. LIANG Haixiang, Nanjing University, Residential Segregation under the Two-tier Labor Market (Discussant：MA Zhenkai)
3. Wuniriqiqige, Shanghai University, Research on education return of migrant workers (Discussant：WANG Jiapeng)
4. Margot De Groot Van Embden, ENS de Lyon, Expression of subjective knowledge and criteria of scientificity (Discussant：GUO Hongbo)
Discussant: Professor Wu Yuxiao and Professor Laurence Roulleau-Berger
1 hour for presentations (15 minutes for each presentation) & 45 minutes for comments and discussions
5. SU Liang(苏亮), Shanghai University, Patients’ Choice: From Big Hospital to Private Clinic——Research on Urban Medical Security System Changes in Qingdao (Discussant：VerenaRichardier)
6. XIE Wei(谢硙), Fudan University, Curative Effect Feedback and the Adoption of Traditional Chinese Medicine among the Aged (Discussant：LIANG Haixiang)
7. VerenaRichardier, ENS de Lyon, "De-westernization of humanitarian care apparatus and new "moving sovereignties" through operational partnerships in China and Mali."---An ethnographic approach of humanitarian work (Discussant：LIN Weizhi)
8. WANG Jiapeng(王佳鹏), Nanjing University, How to See Invisible Emotions?----Reflection on Qualitative Methodology of Emotion Studies (Discussant：Wuniriqiqige)
Discussant: Professor Liu Yuzhao and Yan Jun
45 minutes for presentations (15 minutes for each presentation) & 35 minutes for comments and discussions
9. GUO Hongbo(郭宏波), Shanghai University, The Influence of Village Elites on the Distribution of Collective Property Rights in Resource-oriented Villages (Discussant：XIE Wei)
10. LIN Weizhi(林伟挚), Shanghai University, Village Election: From Factional Competition to One Factional Dominant (Discussant：Victor Remy)
11. MA Zhenkai(马振凯), Shanghai University, An Attempt of Formal Modeling in the Pattern of Difference Sequence (Discussant：Margot De Groot Van Embden)
17:20-18:00 Round table, summary and discussion.
