Promoted by Sociology and Dialectics of Nature, Sociology of Science has become an important branch in disciplinary, system of China Sociology. According to the viewpoint of the author of thesis who made general review of the subjects and contents of the discipline in 80s. Sociology of Science of China has completed its start and exploration, and made rich achievements, but research level is still difficult to satisfy the need of social development, scientific and technical progress, and disciplinary construction. For Sociology, it should strengthen the academic support to Sociology of Science. For Sociology of Science, it should overcome its shortcoming, such as the scattered adsorption from the foreign theory, the lag behind in the construction of relatively unite paradigm in theory research, the weak of theory significance of empiric researches. In that case, the Sociology of Science can get larger development.
Law of the Village Council Organization tried out in 1987 and issued in 1998, marks the beginning of the village autonomy process and symbolizes the withdrawal of the State’s compulsory force from the countryside. In such a setting, the dual effects, which comes from the liberal concurrence nature of the village autonomy and the trust construction mechanism in rural societies, strengthen to certain extent the individual’s clan orientation during the council members’ selection, and therefore enlarge the institutional space of clans’ action. A series of reforms in the countryside since 1970s have brought up the growth of little group’s interest and individualism. As a result, the appearance of clans in farmers’ life world begins to turn to the side of purely intimacy and keeps in the meantime facing to the side of interest, particularly in the case of important events.
