第一章主要介绍了社会学的基本问题，阐述、对比了社会学的两种研究视角和它们在社会学中的地位，进而说明对其进行研究的必要性。

The first chapter introduced the basic issues of sociology; this paper compared two kinds of sociological perspectives and their position in sociology, and then explained the need for its study.

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在经典的、更被广泛接受的、最终源自韦伯社会学的替代理论中，原因的等级被视为历史上特定的。

In the classic, more widely accepted alternative ultimately derived from Weberian sociology, hierarchies of causes are treated as historically specific.

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你可以使用他们在社会学或政治学中所做的这些小盒子中的一个，使这些箭头无处不在。

You could do one of these little boxes they do in sociology or political science and have these arrows running all over the place.

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We're not going to talk about sociological attitudes that we have towards the dying in our culture and how we tend to try to keep the dying hidden from the rest of us.

我们不会去讨论在我们的文化中,面对死亡的社会学态度,以及我们如何试着去避免面对死亡。

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