易小明先生关注“差异”问题已有多年 ,《社会差异研究》(湖南人民出版社 ,1999年 1月版 )是他最近的一个理论总结。就文本中所透露出的信息来看 ,我们大致可以得出一个这样的印象 ,即作者力图从行文到内容都避免理论的空泛。他的思路是这样的 :在对差异进行基础性的界定之后 , Mr. Yi Xiaoming has paid close attention to the issue of “difference” for many years and “the study of social differences” (Hunan People’s Publishing House, January 1999 edition) is a recent summary of his theory. From the information revealed in the text, we can generally conclude that the author tries to avoid the vagueness of the theory from the writing to the content. His idea is this: After a fundamental definition of the difference,