社会学在研究全球化方面发挥着关键作用。全球化要求从根本上改变社会学研究范式的参照点 ,但指导大多数社会学研究的分析框架仍然是民族国家中心论范式。以民族国家和国家间体系作为探索的领域或参照系 ,未能说明全球化带来的大量新情况。面对全球化 ,许多宏观社会学研究仍以国家为分析单元 ,将国家间的互动视为世界社会的主要动态 ,因而已经走到认知和解释的极限。社会结构的跨国化和全球化这种本体论的转换 ,要求进行某种认识论的转换。社会学关于全球化的研究 ,应当超越民族国家中心论范式 ,在社会学分析中区分表象 (从民族国家分析框架中得到的民族国家性现象 )与实质 (跨国性、全球性的现象 ) ,并以多种跨国性和全球性现象和过程为主题 Sociology plays a key role in the study of globalization. Globalization requires fundamentally changing the reference point of sociological research paradigms, but the analytical framework that guides most sociological studies remains the national state-centered paradigm. The search for a system or frame of reference by a system of nation-states and inter-states fails to explain the large number of new developments brought about by globalization. In the face of globalization, many macroscopic sociological studies still take the state as the unit of analysis and regard the interaction among nations as the main dynamic of world society. Therefore, they have come to the limit of cognition and explanation. The ontological transformation of social structure, such as transnationalization and globalization, requires some kind of epistemological transformation. Sociology’s research on globalization should go beyond the paradigm of nation-state center, distinguishing appearances (the phenomenon of nation-state from the framework of nation-state analysis) and substance (transnationality and global phenomena) in sociological analysis and A variety of transnational and global phenomena and processes as the theme