文章对于《和平的角逐———关于社会竞争的社会学讨论》一书的社会价值、学术价值及其主要的观点作了全面的述评。文章指出 ,该书作者渴望理想型竞争的出现 ,而且把这种竞争理解为一种合理的制度安排。即必须建立一种有利于社会竞争存在的发展的体制。在这处体制中 ,社会竞争作为个人的行为模式是理性的 ,作为人与人之间的互动方式是有规则和规范的 ,作为一种社会运行机制是制度化的 The article gives a comprehensive review of the social value, academic value, and key points of his book, “Peaceful Competition - A Sociological Discussion on Social Competition.” The article points out that the author of this book longs for the emergence of ideal type competition, and understands this kind of competition as a reasonable institutional arrangement. That is, we must establish a system conducive to the existence of social competition. In this system, social competition as a model of individual behavior is rational, as a way of interaction between people is regular and normative, as a social operating mechanism is institutionalized