Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu's Legacy explores the achievements and limitations of a Bourdieusian approach to cultural analysis through original contributions from distinguished international scholars. This edited collection offers sustained critical engagement, substantiated by new empirical work. It presents concrete evidence of different approaches to the interpretation of culture in Britain, France and the USA. Discussions are situated in relation to current debates about cultural analysis, in particular the vibrant and extensive disputes concerning the applicability of Bourdieu's concepts and methods. Subsequently, implications for the future of research work in cultural analysis, including into theory and methods, are drawn. The contributing authors offer key interpretations of the work of Bordieu, arguments for alternative approaches to cultural analysis, and critical applications of his concepts in empirical analysis. This book is essential reading for graduate students of sociology, cultural studies, social anthropology or cultural geography, providing great insight into the work of one of the most eminent contemporary scholars in the field of cultural analysis.

What happens when an entire modern state's material culture becomes abruptly obsolete? How do ordinary people encounter what remains? In this ethnography, Jonathan Bach examines the afterlife of East Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall, as things and places from that vanished socialist past continue to circulate and shape the politics of memory.
What Remains traces the unsettling effects of these unmoored artifacts on the German present, arguing for a rethinking of the role of the everyday as a site of reckoning with difficult pasts. Bach juxtaposes four sites where the stakes of the everyday appear: products commodified as nostalgia, amateur museums dedicated to collecting everyday life under socialism, the "people's palace" that captured the national imagination through its destruction, and the feared and fetishized Berlin Wall. Moving from the local, the intimate, and the small to the national, the impersonal, and the large, this book's interpenetrating chapters show the unexpected social and political force of the ordinary in the production of memory. What Remains offers a unique vantage point on the workings of the everyday in situations of radical discontinuity, contributing to new understandings of postsocialism and the intricate intersection of material remains and memory.

Remains of the Everyday traces the changing material culture and industrial ecology of China through the lens of recycling. Over the last century, waste recovery and secondhand goods markets have been integral to Beijing’s economic functioning and cultural identity, and acts of recycling have figured centrally in the ideological imagination of modernity and citizenship. On the one hand, the Chinese state has repeatedly promoted acts of voluntary recycling as exemplary of conscientious citizenship. On the other, informal recycling networks—from the night soil carriers of the Republican era to the collectors of plastic and cardboard in Beijing’s neighborhoods today—have been represented as undisciplined, polluting, and technologically primitive due to the municipal government’s failure to control them. The result, Joshua Goldstein argues, is the repeatedly re-inscribed exclusion of waste workers from formations of modern urban citizenship as well as the intrinsic liminality of recycling itself as an economic process.

Can entrepreneurs develop a nation, serve the poor, and pursue creative freedom, all while generating economic value? In Chasing Innovation, Lilly Irani shows the contradictions that arise as designers, engineers, and businesspeople frame development and governance as opportunities to innovate. Irani documents the rise of “entrepreneurial citizenship” in India over the past seventy years, demonstrating how a global ethos of development through design has come to shape state policy, economic investment, and the middle class in one of the world’s fastest-growing nations.
Drawing on her own professional experience as a Silicon Valley designer and nearly a decade of fieldwork following a Delhi design studio, Irani vividly chronicles the practices and mindsets that hold up professional design as the answer to the challenges of a country of more than one billion people, most of whom are poor. While discussions of entrepreneurial citizenship promise that Indian children can grow up to lead a nation aspiring to uplift the poor, in reality, social, economic, and political structures constrain whose enterprise, which hopes, and which needs can be seen as worthy of investment. In the process, Irani warns, powerful investors, philanthropies, and companies exploit citizens’ social relations, empathy, and political hope in the quest to generate economic value. Irani argues that the move to recast social change as innovation, with innovators as heroes, frames others—craftspeople, workers, and activists—as of lower value, or even dangers to entrepreneurial forms of development.
With meticulous historical context and compelling stories, Chasing Innovation lays bare how long-standing power hierarchies such as class, caste, language, and colonialism continue to shape opportunity in a world where good ideas supposedly rule all.

Should governments be involved in economic affairs? Challenging prevailing wisdom about the benefits of self-regulating markets, Nina Bandelj and Elizabeth Sowers offer a uniquely sociological perspective to emphasize that states can never be divorced from economy. From defining property rights and regulating commodification of labor to setting corporate governance standards and international exchange rules, the state continuously manages the functioning of markets and influences economic outcomes for individuals, firms and nations. The authors bring together classical interventions and cutting-edge contemporary research in economic sociology to discuss six broad areas of economy/state connection: property, money, labor, firms, national economic growth, and global economic exchange. A wealth of empirical examples and illustrations reveals that even if the nature of state influence on economy varies across contexts, it is always dependent on social forces. This accessible and engaging book will be essential reading for upper-level students of economic sociology, and those interested in the major economic dilemmas of our times..

"From Communists to Foreign Capitalists" explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization. Delving into the economic change that accompanied these shifts in central and Eastern Europe, Nina Bandelj presents a pioneering sociological treatment of the process of foreign direct investment (FDI). She demonstrates how both investors and hosts rely on social networks, institutions, politics, and cultural understandings to make decisions about investment, employing practical rather than rational economic strategies to deal with the true uncertainty that plagues the postsocialist environment. The book explores how eleven postsocialist countries address the very idea of FDI as an integral part of their market transition. The inflows of foreign capital after the collapse of Communism resulted not from the withdrawal of states from the economy, as is commonly expected, but rather from the active involvement of postsocialist states in institutionalizing and legitimizing FDI. Using a wide array of data sources, and combining a macro-level account of national variation in the liberalization to foreign capital with a micro-level account of FDI transactions in the decade following the collapse of Communism in 1989, the book reveals how social forces not only constrain economic transformations but also make them possible. "From Communists to Foreign Capitalists" is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the social processes that shape economic life.

Editors Nina Bandelj and Dorothy J. Solinger bring together prominent experts on Eastern Europe and China to examine the respective trajectories of political, economic, and social transformations that unfolded in these two areas, while also comparing the changes that ensued within the two regions. The volume features paired comparisons, with one chapter on the countries from the former Soviet bloc and one on China for each of the following themes: the reinstitutionalization of politics, the recasting of state-society relations, the reform of economic systems, changes in economic behavior, and transformations of social institutions. Despite differences in the specific substantive focus and disciplinary grounding among individual chapters, all chapters share a concern with the fate of the state in postsocialism. They elaborate on topics such as the transformations of the old socialist state and its nature, activities and roles; civil society before and after 1989; the ways in which the state has, or has not, acted to encourage new forms of economic behavior; and the state's responsibility for societal trends, whether in family formation, in protest or in inequality. Taking a unique approach to understand twentieth-century socialism on a global scale, Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged uncovers insights about political models and economic patterns that have emerged in the grand project of the transition from socialism.
Readership: Students and scholars of: comparative politics; international studies; political history; socialism and political movements; development studies; area studies of China, Eastern Europe; twentieth-century history.

《众病之王：癌症传》是一部饱含人文主义色彩的社科文化著作。作者悉达多•穆克吉历时六年，凭借翔实的历史资料、专业文献、媒体报道、患者专访等众多信息，向读者阐述了癌症的起源与发展，人类对抗癌症、预防癌症的斗争史。作者借由医学、文化、社会、政治等视角透露出一种社会化关怀；生动、文学性的写作手法展现出鲜活的人物和历史事件，让读者为之动容。

Sharp decreases in union membership over the last fifty years have caused many to dismiss organized labor as irrelevant in today’s labor market. In the private sector, only 8 percent of workers today are union members, down from 24 percent as recently as 1973. Yet developments in Southern California—including the successful Justice for Janitors campaign—suggest that reports of organized labor’s demise may have been exaggerated. In L.A. Story, sociologist and labor expert Ruth Milkman explains how Los Angeles, once known as a company town hostile to labor, became a hotbed for unionism, and how immigrant service workers emerged as the unlikely leaders in the battle for workers’ rights.
L.A. Story shatters many of the myths of modern labor with a close look at workers in four industries in Los Angeles: building maintenance, trucking, construction, and garment production. Though many blame deunionization and deteriorating working conditions on immigrants, Milkman shows that this conventional wisdom is wrong. Her analysis reveals that worsening work environments preceded the influx of foreign-born workers, who filled the positions only after native-born workers fled these suddenly undesirable jobs. Ironically, L.A. Story shows that immigrant workers, who many union leaders feared were incapable of being organized because of language constraints and fear of deportation, instead proved highly responsive to organizing efforts. As Milkman demonstrates, these mostly Latino workers came to their service jobs in the United States with a more group-oriented mentality than the American workers they replaced. Some also drew on experience in their native countries with labor and political struggles. This stock of fresh minds and new ideas, along with a physical distance from the east-coast centers of labor’s old guard, made Los Angeles the center of a burgeoning workers’ rights movement.
Los Angeles’ recent labor history highlights some of the key ingredients of the labor movement’s resurgence—new leadership, latitude to experiment with organizing techniques, and a willingness to embrace both top-down and bottom-up strategies. L.A. Story’s clear and thorough assessment of these developments points to an alternative, high-road national economic agenda that could provide workers with a way out of poverty and into the middle class.

Hyper-Organization offers an institutional explanation for the expansion of formal organization in the contemporary era-in numbers, internal complexity, social domains, and national contexts. Much expansion is hard to justify in terms of technical production or political power, it lies in areas such as protecting the environment, promoting marginalized groups, or behaving with transparency.
The authors argue that expansion is supported by widespread cultural rationalization characterized by scientism, rights and empowerment discourses, and an explosion of education. These cultural changes are transmitted through legal, accounting, and professionalization principles, driving the creation of new organizations and the elaboration of existing ones. The resulting organizations are constructed to be proper social actors, as much as functionally effective entities. They are painted as
autonomous and integrated but depend heavily on external definitions to sustain this depiction. So expansion creates organizations that are, whatever their actual effectiveness, structurally arational.
This book advances theories of social organization in three main ways. First, by giving an account of the expansive rise of 'organization' rooted in rapid worldwide cultural rationalization. Second, explaining the construction of contemporary organizations as purposive actors, rather than passive bureaucracies or loose associations. Third, showing how the expanded actorhood of the contemporary organization, and the associated interpenetration with the environment, dialectically generate
structures far removed from instrumental rationality.

本书集中研究了近代中国人日本留学活动史，具体而言：以近代中国人日本留学活动的发展变迁史为研究对象，按近代历史时期的划分的四个阶段，具体研究清末、北洋政府时期、国民政府时期、日伪政权治域下、日据时期台湾学生留日教育活动的政策变迁，探究各个时期留学教育活动的实况，总结各个时期留日教育活动的特点及趋势，挖掘对当前留日教育乃至整个留学教育活动的启示意义。

Growing protests in non-democratic countries are often seen as signals of regime decline. China, however, has remained stable amid surging protests. Playing by the Informal Rules highlights the importance of informal norms in structuring state-protester interactions, mitigating conflict, and explaining regime resilience. Drawing on a nationwide dataset of protest and multi-sited ethnographic research, this book presents a bird's-eye view of Chinese contentious politics and illustrates the uneven application of informal norms across regions, social groups, and time. Through examinations of protests and their distinct implications for regime stability, Li offers a novel theoretical framework suitable for monitoring the trajectory of political contention in China and beyond. Overall, this study sheds new light on political mobilization and authoritarian resilience and provides fresh perspectives on power, rules, legitimacy, and resistance in modern societies.
Presents a new view of political mobilization and authoritarian resilience
Provides a novel theoretical framework in which to monitor the trajectory of political contention in China and beyond
Proposes fresh perspectives on power, rules, legitimacy, and resistance in modern societies

阅读《下沉年代》，如同坐在第一排观看美国梦的午夜葬礼
“这是一个时代苍凉的侧影：受挫的努力，被辜负的信任，凋零的生机，以及日渐黯淡的希望。力透纸背的书写，栩栩如生的人物，呈现了美国三十多年的沧桑巨变，也为当下社会撕裂的悲剧写下了发人深省的前传。”——刘擎，华东师范大学教授
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☆ 延续《光荣与梦想》时间线的美国社会内层新史，一部定义我们时代的史诗
☆ 一本书写尽美国梦碎三十年：四个人的一生，四个阶层的剧痛，一代人的失败挽歌
☆ 许倬云、刘擎、周濂、欧逸文推荐，荣获美国国家图书奖，超20家机构年度好书：
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☆《纽约客》资深作家操刀，新世纪非虚构顶峰之作，入选 Slate 25年来最佳50本非虚构
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仿佛在一夜之间，世界轰然倒塌。所有老派的行事规矩和道德准则被抛在一旁，华盛顿的说客比政客还多，纽约交易部门不再有禁忌，佛罗里达州的楼价跌到谷底，铁锈地带的钢铁工厂相继关门，南方的农场不再耕种烟草。富者更富，穷人更穷。
美国国家图书奖得主乔治·帕克跟踪四位不同阶层的60后美国人——追逐美国梦的南方白人农民，失去工厂岗位的非裔女性工人，在华尔街和华盛顿之间穿梭的精英，借互联网经济发迹的硅谷大佬——展现四段沉浮人生，揭开四种阶层剧痛，写出一代人的愤怒与悲哀。
这是唯一一代生活不断下沉的美国人：他们生在战后经济增长的黄金年代，摸爬滚打半生后，却迎来传统社会结构的轰然倒塌。
在主角的故事之外，此书如电影镜头般扫视美国近三十余年的社会变迁，绘成一幅文化、经济、政治交织的全景流动长卷。作者为政客纽特·金里奇、作家雷蒙德·卡佛、沃尔玛创始人山姆·沃尔顿、说唱歌手Jay-Z等人立传，以十位时代偶像映射出十种或回响、或沉沦的时代精神；也记下成千上万迷失在房地产市场的投机者，成千上万占领华尔街的抗议者，成千上万挣扎在生存线上的沉默者，写尽美国梦碎三十年。
阅读《下沉年代》，如同坐在第一排观看美国梦的午夜葬礼。这是献给每一个美国人的安魂曲，也是一本关于时代转折及世界剧变的当下启示录。
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乔治·帕克指出今天的美国正在解体，旧日熟悉的机构，如地方小银行、工会会所、工厂厂房、教堂，以及地方活动主体的各种从事社会服务的“俱乐部”，正在逐渐消失殆尽。美国国内不仅有阶级的区别，还有人群之间的区别，个体也在寻找自己的属性和类别。各个群体，也都在为自己争取更好的地位。社会成员中弱势者，又在争取个人完全的自由和平等。如此横切、竖切的后果，是美国最后会被切割成为许多孤立、离散的个人。——许倬云，历史学家
这是一个时代苍凉的侧影：受挫的努力，被辜负的信任，凋零的生机，以及日渐黯淡的希望。力透纸背的书写，栩栩如生的人物，呈现了美国30多年的沧桑巨变，也为当下社会撕裂的悲剧写下了发人深省的前传。——刘擎，华东师范大学教授
《下沉年代》有点像黄仁宇的《万历十五年》，试图通过一个年代，书写更为漫长的社会变迁。《纽约客》资深作家帕克巧妙地将大人物和小人物交错着写，兼顾造就时代的人和被时代造就（或毁灭）的人。——方柏林，旅美学者
如同乔治·奥威尔的作品，乔治·帕克的写作带着一股道义之力。《下沉年代》，一本横扫一切、铿锵有力、以至于每个人都应该阅读的作品。——大卫·格雷恩，著有《花月杀手》
《下沉年代》是我们国家过去三十年来发生的非凡故事。乔治·帕克写就了一部定义我们时代的史诗，读起来奇妙、亲切和真实。——戴斯特·费尔金斯，著有《跑步在最绝望的城市》
乔治·帕克呈现了我们生活和时代的历史，以洞察的眼光捕捉到我们失去的美国。——劳伦斯·赖特，著有《末日巨塔》
现在，那些在第二次经济大萧条中破碎的心灵和生命，为自己找到了雄辩的代言人和狂热的捍卫者：乔治·帕克。《下沉年代》是美国的悲剧，亦是文学的胜利。——大卫·弗鲁姆，美国知名时评人
独创，锋利，勇敢，至关重要。我这么多年来读到最好的非虚构作品之一。——凯瑟琳·布，著有《地下城》
乔治·帕克为二战后的美国社会契约写出一曲忧伤但又如爵士乐般轻快的安魂曲。在这片越来越吵、难以抑制的土地上，你会为那些活在越来越沉默的绝望生活中的人们发笑和落泪。——大卫·M. 肯尼迪，普利策奖得主
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结合小说般的叙事和严谨的纪实报道，乔治·帕克撕开美国表面下的破碎裂痕。通过贯穿大城市和小城镇的经济衰退，他以敏锐的眼光审视银行家和华尔街，同时追踪我们诸多经济基础设施的痛苦解体。他精准描绘了奋斗者和普通工人的肖像，对富人、野心家、乃至恶臭的名流进行了快照般的捕捉，生动展现了富层阶级与平民之间日益扩大的鸿沟。——美国国家图书奖授奖辞
从现在开始的一百年里，第一本能让人理解这个时代的书，可能是乔治·帕克的《下沉年代》，一部既详尽又意义深远的里程碑作品。——《西雅图时报》
一本兼具野心和慈意之书，以多重角度看待当下的美国。书中充满蜂鸣般的悲情和愤怒，对那些困在校准不当的金融机械齿轮的人们传达了特别的同情。——《纽约时报》
从沃尔特·惠特曼到约翰·多斯·帕索斯，从诺曼·梅勒和厄普代克到汤姆·沃尔夫和亨特·汤普森，小说家和记者总能在普通美国人的生活中发现顽强且机敏的个人主义，对机遇的坚硬信念，以及走出黑暗时代的道路。当下，帕克对国家现状进行了灰暗的描写，令人痛心，却也真实准确。他没有提供虚假希望，亦不给出好莱坞式结局，但是在另一种美国创造力中，在雷蒙德·卡佛式故事和爱德华·霍珀式画像中，在人的尊严和心灵中，他找到了一种力量——当人们因生活崩溃而深感孤独时，这种埋藏在肌肉记忆中的力量会爬升上来。——《华盛顿邮报》
《下沉年代》是一部将叙事推向极限的非虚构作品，直抵通常只有虚构作品才能达到的罕见层级。它写了一部伟大小说所能写尽的一切，但更为特别的是，它也完成了小说似乎不再愿意做的事——更为有趣，更愿意做实验。作者帕克迅速转换视角，打乱叙事，相信读者会在令人震惊的平行叙事中做出自己的判断。——《Esquire》
《下沉年代》是一段献给迷失时光的抒情安魂曲，为了那些被裁减的梦想和屈服的希望。这本书让人着迷，也令人心碎，它是一部丰盈的艺术之作，展示了所有失去希望和允诺的美国人如何受苦。——《每日科斯》
作为《纽约客》特约作家，乔治·帕克是美国最好的非虚构作家之一。就其敏锐性而言，《下沉年代》更像是一本小说，而不是非虚构作品。此书更有感染力。——《金融时报》
一本庞大、高度原创的纪实作品，证明了在这个世界上，新闻报道的未来并不黯淡。帕克的写作是一场险峻的冒险，让人为之侧目。——《纽约书评》
这是最好的时代，也是最坏的时代，帕克出色的叙事如同狄更斯本人第一次将所有这些历史都融入一本书中。这本书事关各种各样的人，无论贫富，他们都陷入经济动荡和社会变革的持续风暴中。人们周围的一切都在变化，珍爱之物尽被销毁。帕克以绝对专业的纪实手法讲述了人们的故事，却比大多数美国当代小说敢于做到的要更加详尽，更有质感，当然，也更具野心。——《洛杉矶时报》
帕克发出一种异常清晰、充满人道的美国之声，它继承了纪实文学的传统，让常人生活超越日常。当我们的后代审视这个现代帝国的遗迹，并从中筛选出文化残骸，这样的美国之声便是延续久远的微小宝藏。——《独立报》
除了本身题材外，《下沉年代》更像是一本实验小说，以其书写的范围、对当代生活质感的体现及包容不同思想的方式，从扬斯敦的社区组织者写到自由主义互联网大亨，它会让读者们联想到“美国三部曲”和《无尽的玩笑》。诸如书写鲍威尔的传记体文章，发在《巴黎评论》中也并不违和，因为这本书不只是关于真相，更是充满智慧、讽刺和惊人的想象力。——《巴黎评论》
帕克的叙事是文学性的，而非规范性的：他不提供政策建议，也不谋求崇高。如同一本伟大的政治小说，《下沉年代》以前所未有的清晰揭示了一个问题，但让读者自己去寻找解决方案。但是，这既是一个绝望的故事，也是一个坚韧的故事。帕克的角色们会做出或好或坏的决定，享受意外好运和不幸，他们竭力维持，他们屈服于生活，接着又更加努力。他们的生活值得被细细讲述，不仅因为具有启发性，更因为它们是如此美丽动人。——《华盛顿月报》

★ 比尔·盖茨无比期待的新知佳作。
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突然爆发的金融危机、效果显著的网 络营销、广泛传播的政治谣言、劫持电脑并勒索高额赎金的电脑病毒，这些现象看似彼此无关，但却拥有一个共同的特 点：它们都是传染性事件。这并不只是一种通俗化的比喻，实际上，如果隐去标签，金融泡沫和麻疹的传播曲线几乎别无二致。
以历史上的重大疫情和科学人物为线索，《传染》讲述了传染病研究中的模型方法的发展历程。以此为基础，作者用一个个实例展示了如何用这些方法来研究和应对社会问题：用防控性病的方法降低金融危机的爆发风险；通过分析童话的“基因组”追溯其起源；用接种疫苗的策略降低暴力活动的发生率；通过找到社交网络上潜在的超级传播者来提高网络营销的效果……
无论是疾病还是社会现象，传染的前提都是人际网络，而模型方法的核心正是对网络的深入理解和调控。如今的我们身处在一个个复杂并相互影响的人际网络中，从传染的角度去审视和应对各类问题，或许能为我们提供全新的启示。

The nonprofit sector has changed in fundamental ways in recent decades. As the sector has grown in scope and size, both domestically and internationally, the boundaries between for-profit, governmental, and charitable organizations have become intertwined. Nonprofits are increasingly challenged on their roles in mitigating or exacerbating inequality. And debates flare over the role of voluntary organizations in democratic and autocratic societies alike. The Nonprofit Sector takes up these concerns and offers a cutting-edge empirical and theoretical assessment of the state of the field.
This book, now in its third edition, brings together leading researchers—economists, historians, philosophers, political scientists, and sociologists along with scholars from communication, education, law, management, and policy schools—to investigate the impact of associational life. Chapters consider the history of the nonprofit sector and of philanthropy; the politics of the public sphere; governance, mission, and engagement; access and inclusion; and global perspectives on nonprofit organizations. Across this comprehensive range of topics, The Nonprofit Sector makes an essential contribution to the study of civil society.

Is "community" in America in decline? If so, does this mean that charitable giving in the United States is also in decline? In this innovative and original work, Emily Barman offers new insights into this important issue. Analyzing workplace charity in different cities across the United States, Contesting Communities shows that while traditional notions of community might be in decline, new types and visions of community have emerged. Barman traces how these different "communities" take the form of organizational competition between the United Way and new alternative fundraisers over workplace contributions. Deftly blending sociological theory of organizations with archival research, interviews with nonprofit leaders, and original survey data, Contesting Communities ultimately shows that the meaning of community occurs almost incidentally to the wishes of those who give and the needs of those who receive.

基因门诊的田野调查
基因检测医师团队的深度访谈
技术的不确定性带来的医患互动
一部重新看待“正常”与“未来”的民族志
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新生儿筛查，指的是在婴儿出生24小时之后到6天内所做的针对一些遗传性疾病等的筛查，以提供预防性的医学措施。本书通过在基因门诊的田野调查，在对75个家庭共计193次到诊所的访问和咨询进行观察，以及对诊所基因检测医师团队深度访谈的基础上，对于新生儿筛查技术在美国的推行历史和这项技术在实践中引发的可预期及不可预期后果进行了生动详尽的记录和分析。
作者向我们展示了技术的“不确定性”如何使得病患和医生进行协商和互动，又是如何影响人们对于“正常”以及未来的理解和期待。这本书是医学、公共卫生和公共政策学者的理想之选，也为普通读者提供了看待医学技术、主流叙事和政策的新视角。
作者提醒我们，对于技术的研究不能忽视具体的社会情境，不同收入水平、不同阶级的家庭并不是都能享有平等的医疗资源、负担起长期治疗所需要的营养品和药物费用。在为“拯救婴儿”的技术欢呼时，不应该忽视美国社会中目前存在的制度和资源不平等等问题，也不该忽略一项“科学”的技术的推广背后的组织和制度力量和市场利益。
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专家推荐：
这本对新生儿筛查的社会现实进行的复杂而严峻的作品，阐明了政策、技术、临床医生、医疗机构和医疗宣传之间的复杂关系，以及它们对患者和从业者非常强大的影响。我们已经非常清楚，技术进步在承诺解决旧问题的同时，也会产生新
的问题。《拯救婴儿》应该是任何认真关注21世纪卫生政策和人类状况的人感兴趣的作品。
——查尔斯·罗森伯格，哈佛大学科学与医学史教授和社会科学的Ernest E. Monrad教授
新生儿遗传病筛查是公共卫生事业的一项胜利，与疫苗接种和卫生设施齐名。但是，由于每年有数百万婴儿接受筛查，人们可能会忽视这样一个事实：每个家庭的情况都是独特的，他们对筛查计划的看法-——它的好处、它的焦虑、它难以发音的疾病名称——都会有所不同。蒂默曼斯和布赫宾德以敏锐的洞察力和同情心捕捉到了这些个人故事。他们所描述的临床情景，都是真实的，引人入胜，揭示了家属和医生的态度和反应，出乎意料又在情理之中。
——韦恩·格罗迪，加州大学洛杉矶分校医学院医学博士

Creating a clear, analytical framework for readers, Institutions and Organizations: Ideas and Interests, Fourth Edition continues to reflect the richness and diversity of institutional thought, viewed both historically and as a contemporary, ongoing field of study. By presenting the differences as well as the underlying commonalities of institutional theories, this book presents a cohesive view of the many flavors and colors of institutionalism. It evaluates and clarifies developments in both theory and research while identifying future research directions.
Key Features:
- Elaborates on the three pillars of institutions as part of a larger framework and sheds light on the interplay between institutions and social systems
Includes a detailed discussion between three differing explanations and approaches of institutionalization―economic, sociological, and neo-institutional scholars in organizational studies
- Examines how symbols, relations, routines, artifacts, and other carriers transmit institutional arrangements across time and space
- Devotes a chapter to the theoretical and practical significance of organization fields
Emphasizes the best and most recent theoretical and empirical contributions in each chapter

本书所收的论文大抵集中在晚明到清初这一段，它们基本上与“明清思想的转型”这一个大论述息息相关，但是作者刻意挖掘前人所忽略的问题，故书中所处理的人物、材料、主题，不一定都落在一般熟习的论述范围之内。由它们可以看出整个“明清思想转型”是一个内容非常复杂、成份非常多元的历史现象，由心学到考证学的转变只是其中一端而已。 本书所收文章大抵不只是就思想谈思想，而是尝试着将思想与其他历史因素结合起来考察，它们或为道德紧张感、或为知识社群的变动、或为时代心态、或为文人生活、或为地方社会、或为政治变动、或为官方正统意识形态等，对于思想史研究而言，收在本书中的文章是一些新的尝试。
增订版新增新序和三篇长文，呈现了作者对于明清思想转型较为系统的思考。

In this volume, four leading thinkers of our times confront the paradoxes and dilemmas attending the supposed stand-off between Islam and liberal democratic values. Taking the controversial Danish cartoons of Mohammad as a point of departure, Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Saba Mahmood inquire into the evaluative frameworks at stake in understanding the conflicts between blasphemy and free speech, between religious taboos and freedoms of thought and expression, and between secular and religious world views. Is the language of the law an adequate mechanism for the adjudication of such conflicts? What other modes of discourse are available for the navigation of such differences in multicultural and multi-religious societies? What is the role of critique in such an enterprise? These are among the pressing questions this volume addresses.