该专著将基于对近现代中国学者新闻学论著的文本细读和情境分析，梳理、整合和揭示在中国新闻学的生成和演化过程中，作为立场的“中国”是如何在被他们认同的过程中，又随着情境的变化，被不断地建构和重构，进行历史地造就中国新闻学的整体面貌。

Mannheim, a pioneer in the field of SOCIOLOGY (740), here analyzes the ideologies that are used to stabilize a social order and the wish-dreams that are employed when any transformation of that same order is attempted. Translated and with a Foreword by Louis Wirth and Edward Shils; Preface by Wirth; Indices.