费孝通教授从事社会学研究五十年,踏遍青山,立足实际,从实地接触中来研究中国社会.中国社会的主体是农业社会,农村是中国社会学的实验室,所以,费先生几乎毕生致力于农村社会的研究;而其研究的主要方法,在于进行社区分析,亦称社区研究.如果说吴文藻教授是社区研究的倡导者,那么,费先生就不仅在口头上鼓吹,而且在行动上付诸实践.他写下的许多蜚声中外的论著,其中除了一部分时评、译著之外,大部分著作源自社会生活,得益于社会调查,是社区研究的产物.这些著作犹如一座座航标,记载着这位年事已逾七旬的老学者在学术上的劳绩. Professor Fei Xiaotong engaged in social studies for fifty years, traveled to the mountains, based on reality, from the field contact to study Chinese society .Chinese society is the main agricultural society, rural China is a sociology laboratory, so Mr. Fei almost Devoted his life to the study of rural society, and his main method of research is community analysis, also known as community research.If Professor Wu Wenzao is the advocator of community research, Mr. Fei not only advocated verbally, but also in action Put into practice many of his famous Chinese and foreign works, in addition to a part of the assessment, translation, most of the work from social life, thanks to social surveys, is the product of community research. The beacon marks the academic performance of an older scholar who has been over 70 years old.