Although policy makers sorely need scholarly research on social change and the problems it entails, the social sciences have received little encouragement in the past, as the nation strove to develop economically and technologically.
像今天社會變遷如此快，亟需大量的學術研究做為決策的參考，但過去我們忙著發展經濟與科技，社會科學未受到鼓勵，一直「沒有形成良好的『研究社區』」，瞿海源說。