此文的作者乔治·锐查(George Ritrer)是美国马里兰大学社会学教授。1975年在《美国社会学家》刊物上发表了这篇文章。当时这篇文章曾在美国社会学界引起了广泛的回响。锐查本人也因此名声鹊起。这篇文章虽然发表于十多年前,但他运用范式的概念对杂乱无章的社会学理论起了归类作用,不能不说是匠心独运。这篇文章的意义还在于告诫社会学家不要死抱自己的理论,要善于研究他人理论的长处来共同建设这门学科。他同时还澄清了对各种社会学方法滥用于社会学理论的现象。本文原长20,000字,现节为7,000字 George Ritrer, author of the paper, is a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland. This article was published in the American Journal of Sociology in 1975. At the time this essay had aroused widespread repercussions in American sociology. Rui check himself so famous. Although this article was published more than a decade ago, he used the notion of paradigm to classify disorganized sociological theories. The significance of this article is also to warn sociologists not to cling to their own theories, to be good at studying the strengths of other people’s theories to jointly build this discipline. He also clarified the phenomenon of misuse of various sociological methods in sociological theory. This article originally 20,000 words, the current section is 7,000 words