Abstract: The resumption and reconstruction of sociology in China produced a group of unique sociologists. As both the witnesses of the social transformations and reconstruction and the earliest academics who produced the sociological disciplinary knowledge, they played a pioneering role in the course of the disciplinary development. The formation of the “sociologists” and their academic responses to social structures and transformations can be explained preliminarily in the light of the constructed analytical framework. Sociology of knowledge and oral history can be adopted as the perspective and method of the further study of the explanation.

Key words:  , “sociologists”, sociology of knowledge, oral history, framework, intellectual-social duality