晚近,英国学者朗西曼出版了3卷本巨著《论社会理论》的前两卷,引起了西方学术界的注意。著名马克思主义史学家霍布斯鲍姆评论说:“这是令人震惊的气势磅礴的成果,……我还没有看到有其他的比较历史研究象这本书那样给我留下如此深刻的印象。”社会学家盖尔纳教授评论说:“这是一部极重要的非凡著作,它以空前的抱负提出一种可称为一般的人类社会理论,并使这种理论与历史资料相结合。” 该书第一卷副标题为“社会理论的方法论”,它以社会理论的功能为研究对象,把社会 Recently, the British scholar Ranceman published the first two volumes of the volume 3 book “On Social Theory”, which attracted the attention of western academia. Hobbesbaum, a well-known Marxist historian, commented: “This is a shocking and majestic achievement ... I have not seen any other comparative historical studies that left me so profoundly as this book ”The sociologist Professor Gellner commented:“ This is an extremely important extraordinary book, with an unprecedented ambition to come up with a theory that can be described as a general human society and bring it into line with historical material The first volume of the book subtitle entitled ”Methodology of Social Theory", which takes the function of social theory as the research object, the social