The modernity is a common core theme for both the contemporary sociology of education and postmodernism.

Although during different periods theoretical viewpoints and research paradigms of sociology vary gready, there are no essential differences among classical, modern and contemporary sociology in the matter of theoretical methods and key subjects.

The postmodern sociology of education and the postmodernism sociology of education can be distinguished from the contemporary sociology of education.

The postmodern sociology of education and the postmodernism sociology of education can be distinguished from the contemporary sociology of education.

On the review and prospect of education sociology in China;

LEI Tong-qun is the first scholar to put forward the idea of localization and carried it into practice in the domain of education sociology in China.

The paper rethink the problem consciousness of the education sociology as discipline, by way of comparing two kinds of pattern of put questions to: "whose?" and "how possible?", it try further clear the problem and approach of education sociology research.

On the start of the Chinese educational sociology from the perspective of knowledge sociology;

Lei Tongqun is an important representative in the development process of Chinese educational sociology.

This paper gives an introduction to the theories about educational anthropology,makes a review of the developing process of educational anthropology in China,and makes a comparison between educational anthropology and educational sociology.