科学社会学、组织社会学、制度社会学、社会转型和社会变迁。
主要著作1.中国单位组织变迁过程中的失范效应,李汉林,渠敬东著,2005-03
2.寻求新的协调――中国城市发展的社会学分析,李汉林等著,2004-11
3.知识流通论,李汉林著 2004-11-22
4.中国的单位组织―资源、权力与交换,李路路,李汉林,2003-10
主要学术著作1.中国单位组织变迁过程中的失范效应,2003年,合著,上海人民出版社;
2.中国单位组织:资源、权力与交换。2000年,合著,浙江人民出版社;
3.Searching for Hidden Reality: Anomie and Social Change. 1997, (with Atteslander, Tanur and Wang), Swiss Academy of Development;
4.Research on the Chinese Work Unit Society. (With Qi Wang) 1996,Peter Lang Press;
5.Work Unit - The Basic Structure of Chinese Society: Data Material. (With Li, Wang) 1996,Beijing Press;
6.中国单位现象研究资料集,1995年,合著,**文献出版社;
7.The Chinese New Value: Attitude to Modernization and Reform Policy. München, 1995,Minerva Press (with Bettina Gransow);
8.The Basic Structure of Chinese Society: From theTraditional Clan System to the Modern Danwei-Organization. Opladen, 1991,Westdeutsche Press;
9.The Differentiation of Evaluation of Science in the Knowledge Production. 1984 München,Minerva Press。