During the history of sociology, positivism and anti - positivism are two very important sociological traditions. They argued with each other and developed with the arguement from the begginning to now. In this article, the author firstly introduces the history and the social surroundings of the two traditions, then points out the great difference between them. On this basis, the author concludes that in future sociology will probably break out the limits between positivism and anti- positivism and find out a new way integr...