'The strengths of this text are the breadth of theories covered; the integration of gender-related topics - family, work, religion; the use of substantial quotes from primary texts; the consistent inclusion of methodological issues.!I have no doubt that it will find a solid position in the field of theory texts' - Kathleen Slobin, North Dakota State University The popular Pine Forge Press textbook, Sociological Theory, has been broken into two volumes, to meet the needs of lecturers and students. Contemporary Sociological Theory covers developments in the discipline from the 1930s and includes important new voices in social theory, including 14 female theorists. The treatment of individual theories and theorists is balanced with the development of key themes and ideas about social life, including race, class and gender.

The tenth edition of
is more substantially revised and updated than any single new edition of this classic text in the last twenty years. Readers will find the basic theoretical framework of
unchanged, but the application of this framework has been expended to analyze many of today's current issues and developments.
NEW TO THE 10th EDITION:
o New or expanded material on globalization, outsourcing, prospects for a Chinese century, and the end of cheap oil.
o New and expanded materials on Islamic fundamentalism.
o New unit on the growing generation gap in industrial societies.
o New unit on women in agrarian societies with special sidebar on the recent discovery of 'Women's Secret Language in [pre-modern] China.'
o New and expanded materials on the role of money and moneyed interests in industrial democracies and on the dark side of the Industrial Revolution.
o Statistical data on contemporary societies updated with latest available figures and several valuable new tables.
o Several new sidebars: 'Paris in the Horticultural Era'; 'The Myth of Primitive Environmentalism' (the case of Easter Island per Jared Diamond); 'Changing Catholic Belief and Practice in France and the United States'; and 'Women's Secret Language in China'.
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Symbolic interactionism, resolutely empirical in practice, shares theoretical concerns with cultural studies and humanistic discourse. Recognizing that the humanities have engaged many of the important intellectual currents of the last twenty-five years in ways that sociology has not, the contributors to this volume fully acknowledge that the boundary between the social sciences and the humanities has begun to dissolve. This challenging volume explores that border area.

This book reformulates the sociologicalsubdiscipline known as the sociology of knowledge.Knowledge is presented as more than ideology, including aswell false consciousness, propaganda, science andart.

This is a collection of articles dealing with the point of view of symbolic interactionism and with the topic of methodology in the discipline of sociology. It is written by the leading figure in the school of symbolic interactionism, and presents what might be regarded as the most authoritative statement of its point of view, outlining its fundamental premises and sketching their implications for sociological study. Blumer states that symbolic interactionism rests on three premises: that human beings act toward things on the basis of the meanings of things have for them; that the meaning of such things derives from the social interaction one has with one's fellows; and that these meanings are handled in, and modified through, an interpretive process.

A notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves. This book explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way that we appear to others. Dr. Goffman uses the metaphor of theatrical performance as a framework. Each person in everyday social intercourse presents himself and his activity to others, attempts to guide and control the impressions they form of him, and employs certain techniques in order to sustain his performance, just as an actor presents a character to an audience. The discussions of these social techniques offered here are based upon detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1972, and a past president of both the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association, Carl Degler is one of America's most eminent living historians. He is also one of the most versatile. In a forty year career, he has written brilliantly on race (Neither Black Nor White, which won the Pulitzer Prize), women's studies (At Odds, which Betty Friedan called a stunning book), Southern history (The Other South), the New Deal, and many other subjects. Now, in The Search for Human Nature, Degler turns to perhaps his largest subject yet, a sweeping history of the impact of Darwinism (and biological research) on our understanding of human nature, providing a fascinating overview of the social sciences in the last one hundred years.
The idea of a biological root to human nature was almost universally accepted at the turn of the century, Degler points out, then all but vanished from social thought only to reappear in the last four decades. Degler traces the early history of this idea, from Darwin's argument that our moral and emotional life evolved from animals just as our human shape did, to William James's emphasis on instinct in human behavior (then seen as a fundamental insight of psychology). We also see the many applications of biology, from racism, sexism, and Social Darwinism to the rise of intelligence testing, the eugenics movement, and the practice of involuntary sterilization of criminals (a public policy pioneered in America, which had sterilization laws 25 years before Nazi Germany--one such law was upheld by Oliver Wendell Holmes's Supreme Court). Degler then examines the work of those who denied any role for biology, who thought culture shaped human nature, a group ranging from Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead, to John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner. Equally important, he examines the forces behind this fundamental shift in a scientific paradigm, arguing that ideological reasons--especially the struggle against racism and sexism in America--led to this change in scientific thinking. Finally, Degler considers the revival of Darwinism without the Social Darwinism, racism, and sexism, led first by ethologists such as Karl von Frisch, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Konrad Lorenz, and Jane Goodall--who revealed clear parallels between animal and human behavior--and followed in varying degrees by such figures as Melvin Konner, Alice Rossi, Jerome Kagen, and Edward O. Wilson as well as others in anthropology, political science, sociology, and economics.

What kind of animal is Homo sapiens and how did we come to be this way? In this wide ranging history, Carl Degler traces our attempts over the last century to answer these questions. In doing so, he has produced a volume that will fascinate anyone curious about the nature of human beings.

《童年与社会》一书是20世纪伟大的心理学家、普利策奖得主、美国国家图书奖得主埃里克森的代表作。本书的出版标志着心理社会理论（俗称生命周期八阶段理论）的初步成形。在本书中，埃里克森首次提出了生命周期八阶段理论，它的前提假设是：八种基本力量随着我们的生命历程逐渐显现，每种基本力量都是在特定时间出现的发展性冲突的产物。此外，作者带我们走近小男孩山姆、海军陆战队队员、小女孩安妮、小男孩彼得，去了解身体、自我和社会的关系；走近两个气质迥异的印第安部落——大草原上的猎人和鲑鱼河畔的渔民部落，认识过去历史如何影响了人类的现实处境；走近小女孩简和玛丽、小男孩本和汤姆，认识微观世界（游戏）与宏观世界（现实）的关系；走近美国、德国和俄国，了解民族历史与民族现状如何一道塑造、摧毁、重塑一个民族的个性。
本书（原版）曾在心理学、人类学、文化学、社会学等领域引起巨大反响，被奉为一本研究童年之社会意义的经典著作，更有人称这本书为一本从心理学出发的百科全书。
◎编辑推荐:
 20世纪更伟大的心理学家、“普利策奖”得主埃里克森成名之作！
 中科院心理所院士张侃作序推荐！
 “人类学之母”玛格丽特•米德对本书给予了极高的评价，称本书为“关于人类科学的欧洲和美国思想的绝妙结合”。
 非典型心理百科，透过男孩—女孩、个人—群体、游戏—现实、历史—现状，认识身体、自我和社会的关系。
◎媒体推荐：
《童年与社会》一书成功地整合了（而非简单地联系起）不同学科关于儿童发展现象的事实和观点，是一本荟萃富有想象力的临床见解、缜密的思考、富有幽默感的洞见和深刻的人性的绝佳好书。
——《科学》杂志
用精神分析来研究文化人类学，《童年与社会》独树一帜，无与伦比。
——《神经病学和精神病学档案》
在我看来， 《童年与社会》一书是关于人类科学的欧洲和美国思想的绝妙结合。
——玛格丽特•米德
著名人类学家
美国人类学会主席
美国自然史博物馆馆长

Children and Society presents a comprehensive sociological portrayal of children and childhood from birth to the beginning of adolescence. A major theme is the tension between children's active agency and the socializing influences of the family, school, peer groups, and mass media. The book
incorporates the most recent research and theories of childhood socialization. Its theoretical perspective is primarily symbolic interactionism which emphasizes the development of the self. The volume features research that documents cultural variations within American society shaped by social
class, race and ethnicity, and gender.

Children and Society is organized into four parts, each with an introduction. Part I, Understanding Childhood Socialization, consists of four chapters. Chapter One reviews how social scientists have conceptualized children, leading to today's understanding of childhood as a social construction.
Chapter Two briefly discusses the characteristics of the human organism that both require and make socialization possible, and the characteristics of society that receives the newborn. Chapter Three reveals the range of meaning of the concept of socialization in western and non-western societies and
includes a review of the history of western childhoods. Chapter Four offers a careful exposition of the development of the self.

Part II, Agencies of Socialization, focuses on the major agencies that help shape the development of the self in the United States and similar societies. One chapter each covers families, schools, peer groups, and mass media respectively. Diversities of Socialization are the focus of Part III.
Whereas Chapter Four presented a general account of how the self develops, the three chapters of Part III examine the variations that are shaped by social class, race, ethnicity and neighborhood, and gender. The single chapter in Part IV, Looking Back and Looking Ahead, stresses that socialization
is a life-long process. It briefly sketches issues of continuity and discontinuity in socialization throughout adolescence, adult life, old age, and death.

Jean Piaget's influence on psychology has been profound. His pathbreaking investigations and theories of cognitive development have set child psychology moving in entirely new directions. His bold speculations have provided the inspiration for the work of others. His studies have been the subject of many books and countless articles. And, significantly, his influence has spread to other disciplines and is having an ever-growing impact on the general culture at large.

Here Jean Piaget, with the assistance of his long-time collaborator Bäel Inhelder, offers a definitive presentation of the developmental psychology he has elaborated over the last forty years. This comprehensive synthesis traces each stage of the child's cognitive development, over the entire period of childhood, from infancy to adolescence.

Childhood personality and behaviour forecast adult life - but many children with severe behaviour problems nevertheless turn into competent and successful adults. Who recovers, and who goes on to become a schizophrenic, a criminal, or an alcoholic? This book presents the findings from major longitudinal studies in psychopathology, extending from childhood into adulthood.

《汉译世界学术名著丛书》之一，主要是对闲荡于街头巷尾的意裔青年的生活状况、非正式组织的内部结构及活动方式，以及他们与周围社会（主要是非法团伙成员和政治组织）的关系加以观察是，并对这一观察过程、所获资料及结论的翔实而生动的记述。
本书作者于1936至1940年，对波士顿市的一个意大利人贫民区（即作者称之为“科纳维尔”的波士顿北区）进行了实地研究。他以被研究群体——“街角帮” 一员的身分，置身于观察对象的环境和活动中，对闲荡于街头巷尾的意裔青年的生活状况、非正式组织的内部结构及活动方式，以及他们与周围社会（主要是非法团伙成员和政治组织）的关系加以观察，并及时作出记录和分析，最后从中引出关于该社区社会结构及相互作用方式的重要结论。

George C. Homaris' classic volume was among the first to study the small group as a microcosm of society. It introduced a method of analysis and a set of influential theories that cut across areas of specialization on the personality, community, and industry.

This book documents the conventional wisdom that Japanese workers displayed significantly more commitment to their organizations than did American workers. But as the authors point out in their new prologue, the world is very different from when this survey of U.S. and Japanese manufacturing firms first appeared; the latter are now moving closer to the American "market individualist" model. Originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1990.

Deviant Behavior, 10/e by Erich Goode provides a comprehensive study of the behavior, beliefs, conditions, and reactions to deviance, giving students a better understanding of this phenomenon. Deviance is discussed from the sociological perspectives of positivism and constructionism. Readers will grasp the reason behind deviant behavior through the positivist perspective and why certain actions, beliefs, and physical characteristics are condemned through the constructionist perspective.

By articulating a general theory of crime and related behavior, the authors present a new and comprehensive statement of what the criminological enterprise should be about. They argue that prevalent academic criminology—whether sociological, psychological, biological, or economic—has been unable to provide believable explanations of criminal behavior.

The long-discarded classical tradition in criminology was based on choice and free will, and saw crime as the natural consequence of unrestrained human tendencies to seek pleasure and to avoid pain. It concerned itself with the nature of crime and paid little attention to the criminal. The scientific, or disciplinary, tradition is based on causation and determinism, and has dominated twentieth-century criminology. It concerns itself with the nature of the criminal and pays little attention to the crime itself. Though the two traditions are considered incompatible, this book brings classical and modern criminology together by requiring that their conceptions be consistent with each other and with the results of research.

The authors explore the essential nature of crime, finding that scientific and popular conceptions of crime are misleading, and they assess the truth of disciplinary claims about crime, concluding that such claims are contrary to the nature of crime and, interestingly enough, to the data produced by the disciplines themselves. They then put forward their own theory of crime, which asserts that the essential element of criminality is the absence of self-control. Persons with high self-control consider the long-term consequences of their behavior; those with low self-control do not. Such control is learned, usually early in life, and once learned, is highly resistant to change.

In the remainder of the book, the authors apply their theory to the persistent problems of criminology. Why are men, adolescents, and minorities more likely than their counterparts to commit criminal acts? What is the role of the school in the causation of delinquincy? To what extent could crime be reduced by providing meaningful work? Why do some societies have much lower crime rates than others? Does white-collar crime require its own theory? Is there such a thing as organized crime? In all cases, the theory forces fundamental reconsideration of the conventional wisdom of academians and crimina justic practitioners. The authors conclude by exploring the implications of the theory for the future study and control of crime.

《犯罪的一般理论》内容简介：犯罪学（criminology）是一门在国外产生的重要学科。犯罪学研究的重镇一直在国外，特别是在西方发达国家。中国的犯罪学研究要想得到大的发展，必须很好地吸收全人类犯罪学研究的精粹。美国等其他国家犯罪发展的成功历史也表明，翻译国外的重要犯罪学书籍，是发展本国犯罪研究、提升本国犯罪学水准的重要途径。
中国人公安大学出版社一直将犯罪学作为重要的出版方向之一，此次将《犯罪学名著译丛》介绍给广大读者，也是致力于发展中国犯罪学事业的重要举措。
收入本《译丛》的著，主要是根据下列标准来衡量的：一是犯罪学史上产生过重大影响的；二是获得过重要学术奖项的；三是统计研究表明被广泛引用的；四是与中国犯罪学的发展关系密切的。
本《译丛》是一套开放的丛书，随着时间的推移，我们将尽可能多地把犯罪名著翻译过来，不断累积，蔚为大观，力争成为了解国外犯罪学研究的重要桥梁，为中国乃至整个华人世界犯罪学事业的发展，为恰当认识、有效预防和科学处置犯罪与犯罪人，做出我们的贡献。

In this topical and authoritative discussion of the problems of toleration which arise in multi-cultural and multi-racial society, the authors focus their attention on the conflicts which can occur between minority cultures and the dominant society. They raise questions about the role of group membership in the formation of individual identity, the tensions which may arise between individual identity and allegiance to the group, and the possibility of resolving those tensions through dialogue. Taken as a whole, the collection aims to explore the justification of toleration in modern liberal political theory and to investigate the implications of that theory for political practice.