This edition is a penetrating and urgent study of the increasing levels of income inequality in the United States and the world. The erosion of the middle class poses a threat to worldwide economic and political stability, as consumers and their children slowly disappear into growing rates of poverty, crime, and violence. Braun examines the economic plight of all people including those in developing nations where a tiny minority controls much of the wealth, and links this inequality to relationships between Third World nations and multinational corporations. This second edition includes new information on the working poor, Mexico and NAFTA, cross-country perceptions of inequality, mass media and political manipulation, and corporations and their overpaid CEOs.

The 8th edition of "Social Stratification and Inequality" continues to provide a comprehensive, up-to-date exploration of the economic and social divisions in human societies. Extensive comparative information, as well as an overview of how social stratification has changed and evolved over time, gives readers a global perspective on class conflict. Praised for its thorough research and scholarship, "Social Stratification and Inequality" includes current statistics and the latest trends in the field.

《社会分层与不平等(历史比较全球视角下的阶级冲突第7版)/社会学人类学译丛》作者哈罗德·R.克博》
《社会分层与不平等：历史、比较、全球视角下的阶级冲突》一书的第七版为我们提供一项对人类社会的经济和社会分工领域的综合性的最新研究。本书的新颖之处在于通过广泛地比较，以及对社会阶层变迁和演化历程的概观，为读者展现了一种讨论阶层冲突问题的全球性视角。作者通过运用最新的统计数据，反映出社会学领域最新的研究趋势。本书的英文原著自出版以来，赢得了美国大学师生的广泛赞赏，成为社会学专业的经典入门教材，同时也受到关注社会问题的普通读者们的喜爱。

▲一幅恢弘的人类社会分层的历史与现实图景
【内容简介】
《权力与特权》主要回答了社会分层领域中的核心问题：谁得到了什么？为什么能够得到？格尔哈特•伦斯基通过辩证的视角来审视这一学科思想的的发展，勾勒了正在兴起的理论综合的框架。他认为众多社会学家——如马克思、斯宾塞、萨姆纳、凡勃伦、莫斯卡、帕累托、索罗金、帕森斯和达伦多夫—— 所持的多元、矛盾的观点都可以被包含于不断发展的、系统化的理论主体当中。
【本书获誉】
本书对于具有决定性后果的不平等现象进行的一般性解释，至今依然受到推崇。着手研究工作的学者都会将伦斯基这部富于想象力的、具有深远意义的著作视为一份不可或缺的指南。
——拉尔夫•达伦多夫，《美国社会学评论》
一次对人类不平等之因果，政治和经济权力之基础的广泛而深远的追问……伦斯基的这部杰作指引我们穿越诸世纪到达地球最偏远的角落……比较社会分析方面的一部杰作。
——海因茨•尤劳，《美国政治科学评论》

经过三十多年的努力，卢曼已经使“系统理论”成为德国社会学理论的新典范。但是其影响范围是跨学科的，哲学、心理学、 心理治疗、政治学、艺术、教育、法学、新闻传播等学科不断地引用他的作品。其理论魅力就在于，透过更抽象的、精简的进路来翻写其它的理论及经验研究的成果。封一般学者或学术工作者来说， 要达到这样的理论运用，是要付出相当的心力，因局卢曼使用了极为复杂的专业术语来控制住理论的抽象度。为了减轻入门的困难， 能尽可能地在短时间内对系统理洽有一各概略的掌握，作者出版了这本导读。本书主要分成四大部份：1.一般的系统理论，2.关于社会系统的理论，3.关于全社会的理论，4.对于今日社会的诊断。

《城市社会学》反映了城市社会学理论和研究的最新发展，既包括世界与中国的城市化、人类生态学理论、社区邻里关系与社区权力的研究和新城市社会学理论，也包括国内尚鲜有论及的、20世纪80年代后发达国家城市社会学领域中的最新理论，如社会学的社区主义理论、以社会为中心的社会资本理论、城市政治中的增长机器理论和机制理论、全球城市理论等，以及中国城市社区和国外社区的研究。

劳动社会学是一门用社会学的理论体系和方法对劳动者的社会劳动活动的结构、功能及其运行规律进行研究的分支社会学。本书系统介绍了国内外关于劳动社会学研究的主要理论、流派与研究视角，从个人、群体和组织、社会三个层面出发，分析了劳动者劳动活动的五个主要层面——劳动者、职业、劳动组织、劳动关系与劳动社会问题。本书还运用劳动社会学相关理论和方法，对中国现实生活中的重大劳动问题(如职业选择、职业流动、劳动关系、劳动制度、就业与失业等)进行了深入分析。
本书可作为大专院校师生劳动社会学、劳动经济学等相关课程的教材，也可做实际工作人员研究劳动问题的参考书籍。

本书是普通高等学校社会学专业主干课系列教材。本书以作者自己的经验研究与实践为基础，将家庭和婚姻看作历史的范畴，在透视家庭结构、家庭功能和家庭关系的内在联系的基础上对社会和家庭的相互作用，尤其是社会转型期这种相互作用的特点做了相对深入的分析和阐述。该书的另一个特点是以现象学社会学的意义探究来把握深度访谈，对定性研究方法在家庭社会学研究中的应用做了新的尝试。本书既有一定的理论深度，又与作者的研究实际密切结合，内容新颖，篇幅适中，适合作为高等院校家庭社会学课程的教材或参考书。

《通往奴役之路》（The Road to Serfdom）是诺贝尔经济学奖得主弗里德里克·哈耶克的最知名著作，这本书最先在1944年于英国由Routledge Press出版，接著在1944年9月由芝加哥大学出版。读者文摘在1945年4月也出版了稍微减缩的版本，最后总共销售超过600,000本。Look杂志在1950年左右出版了加上图片的版本，后来又被通用汽车公司以小册子形式大量发放。这本书被翻译成超过20种语言出版，哈耶克称要将这本书献给“所有党派的社会主义者”读一读。该书的第50周年纪念版本则由米尔顿·佛利民（另一名诺贝尔奖得主）撰写序言。《通往奴役之路》一书是对古典自由主义和自由意志主义理论的阐述中最著名、而又最受欢迎的书籍之一。

OG Kush. Sour Diesel. Wax, shatter, and vapes. Marijuana has come a long way since its seedy days in the back parking lots of our culture. So has Howard S. Becker, the eminent sociologist, jazz musician, expert on “deviant” culture, and founding NORML board member. When he published Becoming a Marihuana User more than sixty years ago, hardly anyone paid attention—because few people smoked pot. Decades of Cheech and Chong films, Grateful Dead shows, and Cannabis Cups later, and it’s clear—marijuana isn’t just an established commodity, it’s an entire culture. And that’s just the thing—Becker totally called it: pot has everything to do with culture. It’s not a blight on culture, but a culture itself—in fact, you’ll see in this book the first use of the term “users,” rather than “abusers” or “addicts.” Come along on this short little study—now a famous timestamp in weed studies—and you will be astonished at how relevant it is to us today.
Becker doesn’t judge, but neither does he holler for legalization, tell you how to grow it in a hollowed-out dresser, or anything else like that for which there are plenty of other books you can buy. Instead, he looks at marijuana with a clear sociological lens—as a substance that some people enjoy, and that some others have decided none of us should. From there he asks: so how do people decide to get high, and what kind of experience do they have as a result of being part of the marijuana world? What he discovers will bother some, especially those who proselytize the irrefutably stunning effects of the latest strain: chemistry isn’t everything—the important thing about pot is how we interact with it. We learn to be high. We learn to like it. And from there, we teach others, passing the pipe in a circle that begins to resemble a bona fide community, defined by shared norms, values, and definitions just like any other community.
All throughout this book, you’ll see the intimate moments when this transformation takes place. You’ll see people doing it for the first time and those with considerable experience. You’ll see the early signs of the truths that have come to define the marijuana experience: that you probably won’t get high at first, that you have to hold the hit in, and that there are other people here who are going to smoke that, too.

From the time of its first publication, Tearoom Trade engendered controversy. It was also accorded an unusual amount of praise for a first book on a marginal, intentionally self-effacing population by a previously unknown sociologist. The book was quickly recognized as an important, imaginative, and useful contribution to our understanding of "deviant" sexual activity. Describing impersonal, anonymous sexual encounters in public restrooms—"tearooms" in the argot—the book explored the behavior of men whose closet homosexuality was kept from their families and neighbors.
By posing as an initiate, the author was able to engage in systematic observation of homosexual acts in public settings, and later to develop a more complete picture of those involved by interviewing them in their homes, again without revealing their unwitting participation in his study.
This enlarged edition of Tearoom Trade includes the original text, together with a retrospect, written by Nicholas von Hoffman, Irving Louis Horowitz, Lee Rainwater, Donald P. Warwick, and Myron Glazer. The material added includes a perspective on the social scientist at work and the ethical problems to which that work may give rise, along with debate by the book's initial critics and proponents. Humphreys added a postscript and his views on the opinion expressed in the retrospect.