高科技的发展,使我们的地球“越变越小”了;从而使人们对世界的和平与发展、人类的共存共荣等一系列有关重大问题甚为关注。这些问题的解决,迫切要求人类自己对人和社会的本质及其规律有个统一的认识。另一方面,由于社会的发展,人类社会的实践所积累的对人和社会与整个自然界的认识,已使我们对人和社会的本质及其规律有了较为深刻的认识。所以,社会学理论的研究正进入了一个新的发展阶段.其明显的标志是在西方社会学理论经历了一个学派林立、“群龙无首”的 The development of high technology has made our planet “ever smaller” so that people are most concerned about a series of major issues such as world peace and development and the coexistence and common prosperity of mankind. The solution to these problems urgently requires that human beings themselves have a unified understanding of the nature and laws of people and society. On the other hand, due to the development of society, the knowledge of people and society and the entire natural world accumulated by the practice of human society has given us a deeper understanding of the nature and laws of man and society. Therefore, the study of sociological theory is entering a new stage of development, the obvious sign of which is that Western sociological theory has experienced a school of thought,