卡尔·马克思与西方社会学,提出这个问题并不表明文章尝试对一个著名人物特别是马克思,他与西方社会学之间的关系,做出任何判断或是具体的知识考据。但是,提出这个问题有利于激发我们重新思考马克思与现代社会学之间的关系,这常使得社会学再现新颜,在过去、现在和未来始终为这门学科提供不竭的社会学想象力。本文通过回溯西方社会学的萌生和马克思所生活的时代背景,以及分析社会学家眼中的马克思肖像,特别是马克思的思想与现代社会学理论的勾连,以期获得新的智识启发。
The essay is aimed at putting forward the question of the relationship between Karl Marx and western sociology, which doesn't include any judgment or specific textual research. It arouses us to rethink the relationship between Marx and modern sociology and makes the sociology produce new shapes, so as to provide inexhaustible sociological imagination in the past, present and future. This paper attempts to gain intellectual enquiry by tracing back the initiation of western sociology and Marx's era background, and analyzing Marx image in the eyes of the sociologists, especially the integration of Marxist thoughts and modern sociological theory.