Abstract: For the solution of sociological crisis, there are two ways. One is the regeneration and reconstruction within positivism, and the other is the criticizing positivism of comprehensiveness and criticism. While post-positivism accounts for the connection between empirical environment and metaphysical environment, comprehensiveness and criticism make it possible to solve the contradiction between “value free” and “reference to values”. But all of the three isms call for the basis of empirical evidence. Therefore, it is inevitable for sociological methodologies to converge under such a mutually needed relationship.

Key words: comprehensiveness, criticism, sociological crisis, positivism