The 21th century is an era of the marine, which calls for human being to face the marine. The history, reality and the future of the marine society makes human being to explore it comprehensively. The topic about the development of marine sociology comes into being only in the past decade, which has a pretty obvious character that it is from Guangdong of China instead of the western that put forward the Marine Sociology.

　　It makes clear the purpose and main theme from the very beginning：

　　The marine Sociology is a subfield that studies the relationship between the marine society and the development of human being.

　　To research the marine society, we must set about from the dimensions of history, core, subject and function, from which the infinite, broadness, rationalisation and balance of the marine society can be revealed. 

　　From the perspective of the history of the marine sociology, to explore the transformation and the relationship of the marine and the land and the human nature in the marine makes us believe that the marine belongs to both the nature and the human society.

　　From the perspective of core of the marine sociology, we could get to the conclusion that the marine is a system similar to the mainland by exploring the economy, environment, politics, culture and the other aspects of the marine.

　　From the perspective of the subject of the marine sociology, to explore the relationship of the individuals, the groups, the communities and the organizations of the marine makes it more obvious how the marine get along with the nature and the human society.

　　From the perspective of the function of the marine sociology, we should get use of the marine, without which we have no need to develop the marine sociology.

　　It is the infinite, broadness, rationalness and balance of the marine society, aside with the history, core, subject and function of it that form the mechanism and rules to perceive and understand it,which make the marine sociology take on an extremely colorful view attracts the scholars in Guangdong to describe the outline of the marine sociology by this book with reverence and grace.

　　The book marine sociology has taken Guangdong Association of Sociology and Guangdong Association of Civilization three years to finish it,which fills the research blank of the marine sociology with the methodology of Marxism and globalization, founds a comprehensive academic system of the marine sociology, responds to the needs of the century, contributes to the construction of the academic research of Guangdong of China,and will arose the attention of the world and promote the social science and the natural science to research the marine society .

　　The forum of presentation of marine sociology was held in Shenzhen in 23-24, March, 2012 in which 150 civil experts took apart and made speeches, and covered by the media.

　　This is the 44th book in a serial of Chinese Civilization publications by Fanying. There are four parts in this book. The first part consists the speeches of the leaders and experts specially invited; and the second part consists the dissertations of the conventioners upon the new book; and the third part consists the summaries of some authors of the book; and the fourth part consists the representative reports about the forum.

　　
　　Editor    

　　May 26,2012