20世纪 80年代以来 ,西方社会学的元研究及其元理论化趋势的高涨 ,既受社会学理论和社会学元理论内部因素的影响 ,也受社会学学科之外因素的影响。但作为社会学发展中自我反省意识的必然产物 ,它又是在反思社会学自身危机的基础上迅速发展起来的 ,其主要功能就在于为社会学及其理论“立法”。 Since the 1980s, the rising trend of meta-research and meta-theorization in Western sociology has been affected not only by the internal factors of sociological theory and sociological meta-theory but also by factors outside sociology. However, as an inevitable result of the self-reflection consciousness in the development of sociology, it is also rapidly developed on the basis of rethinking the crisis of sociology itself. Its main function lies in “legislation” for sociology and its theory.