Theories of middle range, as a theoretical paradigm of sociology, have multiple
backgrounds: Robert King Merton and his teacher Parsons. In the middle of the
twentieth century, the background of the struggle between different western
ideologies; It is the deeper background of the middle-range theory that the debate
between "universal" and "special", "one" and "many" in western civilization is
presented in the ideological context of different times. Through the analysis of
the multiple background you can see, in the western knowledge system, the
theory meaning and its function in the human society and the role of the what
in the world, starting from the understanding of the theory of this pair of original
intention, spread the researchers may be able to find more reasonable attitude and
position of the theoretical exploration.