This new work explores the meaning and implications of professionalism as a form of social organization. Eliot Freidson formalizes professionalism by treating it as an ideal type grounded in the political economy; he presents the concept as a third logic, or a more viable alternative to consumerism and bureaucracy. He asks us to imagine a world where workers with specialized knowledge and the ability to provide society with especially important services can organize and control their own work, without directives from management or the influence of free markets.

Freidson then appraises the present status of professionalism, exploring how traditional and national variations in state policy and organization are influencing the power and practice of such professions as medicine and law. Widespread attacks by neoclassical economists and populists, he contends, are obscuring the social value of credentialism and monopolies. The institutions that sustain professionalism in our world are simply too useful to both capital and state to dismiss.

作为著名的德国哲学家、法兰克福学派的倡导者，霍克海默所提出的“批判理论”在德国思想界具有举足轻重的地位。本书即是他的代表作之一。正如作者自己所说，本书探讨的是这样一个主题，即文化进步走向其对立面的各种趋势。本书正是通过对20世纪30和40年代美国社会现象的描述，试图着揭示这一主题。

基于芝加哥学派的历史演变与理论贡献，遵循以“情境化”、“六经注我”为主以及“从描述到阐释”的学术进路，在“史”“论”结合的基础上勾勒出作为一个知识共同体的芝加哥学派的整体性图景。研究脉络分为两部分，前面4章主要是回溯学派的历史演变，而后面4章致力于澄清学派对社会学学科的理论贡献。
作者希望通过本研究能够向感兴趣的读者提供一个全景式、整体性、具有内在关联的芝加哥学派图景，让人们不仅对芝加哥学派的诞生、发展与演变的“历史”有一个基本的认识，而且让人们还能够深刻理解芝加哥学派在理论上为后人留下的遗产。

◎日本女性主义理论第一人、《厌女》作者上野千鹤子 面向普通读者的女性主义普及课
◎女性为何如此艰难？女性如何奋斗至今？又该如何奋斗？
◎工作、婚恋、育儿，该如何以女性主义的角度思考？
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※去年东京大学入学演讲《等待着你的是即使努力也无法获得回报的社会》引发热议，使上野千鹤子成为了明星学者与作家。本书是继《厌女》《父权制与资本主义》在中国出版之后，她备受期待的新作。
※本书也是上野千鹤子的第一本面向普通读者的女性主义普及读物。不像她比较艰深的学术著作，本书语言幽默平实、通俗易懂，在轻松的对谈形式中向大众普及女性主义的内涵、历史，以及如何以女性主义角度思考日常中的工作、婚恋、育儿问题。
※本书内容触及现代女性所关心的核心问题，揭示了在当今社会中女性仍然面对的诸多不公与困境。上野千鹤子从自身的经历着手，将女性主义放置在个人生活的背景中，告诉我们女性主义不仅仅关乎女性，更关乎每个人的日常生活。
※本书辅以日本人气漫画家田房永子的漫画，在轻松愉悦的氛围中，接受一次女性主义的洗礼。
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女性主义是什么？为什么我们需要女性主义？如何用女性主义进行思考？
围绕上述种种问题，日本著名学者上野千鹤子与知名漫画家田房永子，开始了一场从零开始的女性主义课堂。她们用幽默的语言、传神的漫画，回溯女性主义的发展历程，畅谈母女关系、性、工作、婚恋、育儿等日常生活中的议题，驳斥关于女性的刻板偏见。
这堂课不仅开启了一趟全新的旅程，更告诉我们：女性主义，不仅仅关乎女性，更关乎每个人的日常生活。

For more than 100 years, Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism has set the parameters for the debate over the origins of modern capitalism. Now more timely and thought provoking than ever, this esteemed classic of twentieth-century social science examines the deep cultural "frame of mind" that existed at the birth of modern capitalism and to this day influences attitudes toward work in northern America and Western Europe. In this volume, Stephen Kalberg revises his internationally acclaimed translation--using shorter sentences and more lucid language--to make the work even more accessible to students and other readers. Capturing the essence of Weber's style as well as the subtlety of his descriptions and causal arguments, this is the only translation of the revised 1920 edition of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism published since 1930. To draw readers into the material, this engaging volume includes extensive introductions by the editor, a chronology of Weber's life, a glossary, and numerous clarifying endnotes. Detailed commentaries discuss the controversies Weber addressed, explain his complex causal argument by reference to the general contours of his sociology, summarize the history of "the Protestant Ethic debate," and examine the significance of "the Protestant Sects" essays. Ideal for courses in sociology, anthropology, political science, history, international relations, economics, and cultural studies, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand the origins and endurance of the modern West.

《经济社会学手册(第2版)》的作者现在对内容目录做一个简要的补充说明，意在为那些希望根据自己的特有兴趣进入《经济社会学手册(第2版)》这座宝山各取所需的读者提供行动指南。对于那些对社会学领域的问题感兴趣的读者，作者向他们推荐第1章（经济社会学导论）。第1篇的其他部分包括对经济与社会进行比较和历史分析的第2章（经济社会学的比较与历史分析方法），该章由Frank Dobbin撰写；论述对经济进行制度分析最新发展的第3章（经济学与社会学中的新制度主义），本章的作者是Victor Nee；由Pierre Bourdieu撰写的第4章，对批判性人类学的系统阐述（经济人类学原理）；由Roberto Weber和Robyn Daws撰写的第5章（行为经济学），该章论述了行为经济学的发展，这种发展一直以对新古典经济学中的心理学假定进行修正为己任，并追溯分析这些修正的意义以及由Mabel。Berezin撰写的第6章（情感与经济），该章对分散于各处的关于情感在经济生活中所起作用的文献进行了评述。

Professor Jones gives a succinct and critical analysis of the sociological theories and methodology of Emile Durkheim. He focuses on four of Durkheim's books -- The Division Of Labour In Society (1893), The Rules Of Sociological Method (1895) and The Elementary Forms Of Religious Life (1912). With an illuminating chapter analysis of each work, this text is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students.

Originally published in 1893 and never out of print, Emile Durkheim's groundbreaking work remains one of the cornerstone texts of the sociological canon--now updated and re-translated in this new edition. As the Industrial Revolution was changing the landscape of society, Durkheim presented a new vision of the social structures at the root of capitalism, and the issues he grappled with still resound today. If pre-industrial societies were held together by common values, sentiments, and norms, equally shared by all, what holds modern societies, with their complex division of labor and non-cohesive social structure, together? What did this new social order mean for the autonomy of the individual? Durkheim argued that class conflict is not inherent in a capitalist society, as Marx contended, but that the unfettered growth of state power would lead to the extinction of individuality. Only in a free society that promotes voluntary bonds between its members, Durkheim suggested, can individuality prosper. In this new edition, the first since 1984, world-renowned Durkheim scholar Steven Lukes revisits and revises the original translation to enhance clarity, accuracy, and fluency for the contemporary reader. Lukes also highlights Durkheim's arguments by putting them into historical context with a timeline of important information. For students and scholars, this edition of "The Division of Labor" is essential reading and key to understanding the relevance of Durkheim's ideas today.

What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza’s Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it.
Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, and how does that affect what stories get told and how they are told? How did we come to view the nation as the inevitable context for history, and what happens when we move outside those boundaries? What is the relation among popular, academic, and public history, and how should we evaluate sources? What is the difference between description and interpretation, and how do we balance them? Maza provides choice examples in place of definitive answers, and the result is a book that will spark classroom discussion and offer students a view of history as a vibrant, ever-changing field of inquiry that is thoroughly relevant to our daily lives.

Written from the standpoint of the social behaviorist, this treatise contains the heart of Mead's position on social psychology. The analysis of language is of major interest, as it supplied for the first time an adequate treatment of the language mechanism in relation to scientific and philosophical issues.
"If philosophical eminence be measured by the extent to which a man's writings anticipate the focal problems of a later day and contain a point of view which suggests persuasive solutions to many of them, then George Herbert Mead has justly earned the high praise bestowed upon him by Dewey and Whitehead as a 'seminal mind of the very first order.'"--Sidney Hook, "The Nation"

"Thompson's book has been called controversial, but perhaps only because so many have forgotten how explosive England was during the Regency and the early reign of Victoria. Without any reservation, The Making of the English Working Class is the most important study of those days since the classic work of the Hammonds."-- Commentary
"Mr. Thompson's deeply human imagination and controlled passion help us to recapture the agonies, heroisms and illusions of the working class as it made itself. No one interested in the history of the English people should fail to read his book."--London Times Literary Supplement

In this provocative book, Susan Bordo untangles the myths, ideologies, and pathologies of the modern female body. Bordo explores our tortured fascination with food, hunger, desire, and control, and its effects on women's lives.

This is a groundbreaking study of our culture's obsession with weddings. By examining popular films, commercials, magazines, advertising, television sitcoms and even children's toys, this book shows the pervasive influence of weddings in our culture and the important role they play in maintaining the romance of heterosexuality, the myth of white supremacy and the insatiable appetite of consumer capitalism. It examines how the economics and marketing of weddings have replaced the religious and moral view of marriage. This second edition includes many new and updated features including: full coverage of the wedding industrial complex; gay marriage and its relationship to white weddings and heterosexuality and demographics shifts as to who is marrying whom and why, nationally and internationally.

Two women, virtual strangers, sit hand-in-hand across a narrow table, both intent on the same thing - achieving the perfect manicure. Encounters like this occur thousands of times across the United States in nail salons increasingly owned and operated by Asian immigrants. This study looks closely for the first time at these intimate encounters, focusing on New York City, where such nail salons have become ubiquitous. Drawing from rich and compelling interviews, Miliann Kang takes us inside the nail industry, asking such questions as: Why have nail salons become so popular? Why do so many Asian women, and Korean women in particular, provide these services? Kang discovers multiple motivations for the manicure - from the pampering of white middle class women to the artistic self-expression of working class African American women to the mass consumption of body-related services. Contrary to notions of beauty service establishments as spaces for building community among women, "The Managed Hand" finds that while tentative and fragile solidarities can emerge across the manicure table, they generally give way to even more powerful divisions of race, class, and immigration.

Judith Stacey has added a new preface to her classic study of how the traditional nuclear family has been supplanted by a variety of new relationships that are not defined by blood ties and traditional gender roles.

Cultural sociology - or the sociology of culture - has grown from a minority interest in the 1970s to become one of the largest and most vibrant areas within sociology globally. In The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Sociology, a global range of experts explore the theory, methodology and innovations that make up this ever-expanding field. The Handbook′s 40 original chapters have been organised into five thematic sections: Theoretical Paradigms; Major Methodological Perspectives; Domains of Inquiry; Cultural Sociology in Contexts; Cultural Sociology and Other Analytical Approaches. Both comprehensive and current, The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Sociology will be an essential reference tool for both advanced students and scholars across sociology, cultural studies and media studies.