The Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of Arts and Culture offers a comprehensive overview of sociology of art and culture, focusing especially – though not exclusively – on the visual arts, literature, music, and digital culture. Extending, and critiquing, Bourdieu’s influential analysis of cultural capital, the distinguished international contributors explore the extent to which cultural omnivorousness has eclipsed highbrow culture, the role of age, gender and class on cultural practices, the character of aesthetic preferences, the contemporary significance of screen culture, and the restructuring of popular culture. The Handbook critiques modes of sociological determinism in which cultural engagement is seen as the simple product of the educated middle classes. The contributions explore the critique of Eurocentrism and the global and cosmopolitan dimensions of cultural life. The book focuses particularly on bringing cutting edge ‘relational’ research methodologies, both qualitative and quantitative, to bear on these debates. This handbook not only describes the field, but also proposes an agenda for its development which will command major international interest.

《新阶级社会：美国梦的终结？》(第四版)介绍了新阶级结构和不平等的社会学，它追问美国梦是否已经逐渐消逝。这部力作揭示出美国阶级不平等如何以及为何扩大、加剧并变得比以往更加根深蒂固。第四版已经经过全面修订和重新组织，包括一个概述了核心主题的新引言，以及几个涵盖更广泛主题的较短章节。新资料涉及对“大衰退”及其持续影响的讨论、中产阶级的消亡、不断上升的大学成本和不断增加的学生债务、电子媒体在塑造人们对阶级的看法方面的作用等。

How can we help African American and Latino students perform better in the classroom and on exams? In Keepin' It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White, Prudence Carter argues that what is needed is a broader recognition of the unique cultural styles and practices that non-white students bring to the classroom. Based on extensive interviews and surveys of students in New York, she demonstrates that the most successful negotiators of our school systems are the multicultural navigators, culturally savvy teens who draw from multiple traditions, whether it be knowledge of hip hop or of classical music, to achieve their high ambitions.

Before his 12th birthday, Philip Jia Guo had already lived in six cities spanning three continents, learned three distinctively different languages, and attended seven schools that had almost nothing in common with one another. On the Move traces his global journey to places as drastically dissimilar as his birthplace in South China, a quaint town in Switzerland, the American Deep South, both the poorest and wealthiest neighborhoods of New York City, and an affluent suburb in Southern California. He poignantly describes his struggles to fit in as a perpetual outsider and his feelings of being constantly forced by circumstances beyond his control to adapt to new environments, schools, languages, and cultures. On the Move interweaves candid narratives of this immigrant boy's unique childhood experiences with critical observations of such hotly contested social issues as race, ethnicity, class, religion, child development, peer group relations, immigration, assimilation, and national identity. This book appeals to anybody who is interested in learning more about the experience of being an immigrant and especially its impact on young children.

历史上，从未有这么多人在一两代人的时间内取得如此巨大的经济进步。
中国正在经历的从一个相对贫穷的发展中国家到中产国家的转型，一直是我们这个时代最为炫目的一出人生剧。从长远来看，在影响中国发展的多股力量中，没有一股力量会比中国中产阶级的迅速崛起和急速增长更有意义的了。
当然，中国中产阶级崛起的意义远远超出了经济学的范畴。本书重点考察过去20年间，由中国中产阶级产生和成长所带来的社会政治后果。其中心问题是：从现在到将来，中国中产阶级的崛起会对这个国家的社会结构和政治制度产生什么样的影响？
作为第一部研究中国中产阶级的英文专著，本书各章的撰稿人以第一手的独创性研究为基础，提出了各种富有挑战性的观点，同时也为针对整体问题的每一种研究方式，提供了现有最好的资料。撰稿人们一致认为，一种新兴的社会经济力量已经深刻地改变了中国的社会分层和经济格局，同时也有迹象表明，中国的中产阶级有可能成为政治变革的关键性力量。

《比较视野下的中产阶级形成:过程、影响及社会经济后果》收录了国内外研究中产阶级问题的知名学者的最新研究成果，对中产阶级的形成、发展、特征、社会经济地位、社会政治功能和相关理论进行了深入探讨，特别重点分析了中国中产阶级的概念界定、发展规模、价值认同、社会态度、收入和消费特征。同时，在国际比较视野下，中外学者也研究了欧美发达国家的中产阶级、后发的“亚洲四小龙”的中产阶级、新兴经济体国家和转型社会的中产阶级的异同。

时间来到1794年，22岁的弗里茨一直在写一首关于蓝花的诗，他常把开头读给别人听：
“我并不渴望富有，但是我渴望看到蓝花。蓝花不断地出现在我心里，我无法想象，也无法思考其他事情了。因为在我曾经生活的世界里，谁会为花朵而烦恼呢？”
一次偶然的拜访，他爱上了年仅12岁的 少女索菲。她并不美丽，甚至算不上漂亮，不虔诚，喜欢大笑。早慧又热忱的诗人、熟读费希特哲学的他，怎么会陷入这种脱胎换骨的迷恋？
仅仅十五分钟，她像一种神秘而超越的力量降临，成为他的智慧，他的精神向导，他的蓝花。因为爱情，一个普通女孩可能成为一个男人心中永恒的星星，开启他绝对浪漫主义的一生。
佩内洛普·菲茨杰拉德的最后一部小说，以德国浪漫派诗人诺瓦利斯的早年经历为蓝本，想象了从弗里茨到“蓝花诗人”的传奇一生。他与索菲的相遇，成为他人生及创作的转折点。在他短暂的29年生命中，他始终追寻着那朵不朽而瞬逝的蓝花。
悲喜剧圣手 写作生涯至高杰作
19次当选媒体年度图书 获美国国家图书评论奖
《蓝花》是历史小说的最佳范例。它不仅承认了历史的基本差异性，还使之成为故事内容不可分割的一部分。这是菲茨杰拉德最好的一本小说，优雅、别出心裁、引人发笑、慷慨大度。我崇拜这本书。——乔纳森·弗兰岑
无与伦比的杰作，一部完美的小说。——詹姆斯·伍德

More than two million students are enrolled in for-profit colleges, from the small family-run operations to the behemoths brandished on billboards, subway ads, and late-night commercials. These schools have been around just as long as their bucolic not-for-profit counterparts, yet shockingly little is known about why they have expanded so rapidly in recent years—during the so-called Wall Street era of for-profit colleges.
In Lower Ed Tressie McMillan Cottom—a bold and rising public scholar, herself once a recruiter at two for-profit colleges—expertly parses the fraught dynamics of this big-money industry to show precisely how it is part and parcel of the growing inequality plaguing the country today. McMillan Cottom discloses the shrewd recruitment and marketing strategies that these schools deploy and explains how, despite the well-documented predatory practices of some and the campus closings of others, ending for-profit colleges won’t end the vulnerabilities that made them the fastest growing sector of higher education at the turn of the twenty-first century. And she doesn’t stop there.
With sharp insight and deliberate acumen, McMillan Cottom delivers a comprehensive view of postsecondary for-profit education by illuminating the experiences of the everyday people behind the shareholder earnings, congressional battles, and student debt disasters. The relatable human stories in Lower Ed—from mothers struggling to pay for beauty school to working class guys seeking “good jobs” to accomplished professionals pursuing doctoral degrees—illustrate that the growth of for-profit colleges is inextricably linked to larger questions of race, gender, work, and the promise of opportunity in America.
Drawing on more than one hundred interviews with students, employees, executives, and activists, Lower Ed tells the story of the benefits, pitfalls, and real costs of a for-profit education. It is a story about broken social contracts; about education transforming from a public interest to a private gain; and about all Americans and the challenges we face in our divided, unequal society.

In the classroom, Asian Americans, often singled out as so-called “model minorities,” are expected to be top of the class. Often they are, getting straight As and gaining admission to elite colleges and universities. But the corporate world is a different story. As Margaret M. Chin reveals in this important new book, many Asian Americans get stuck on the corporate ladder, never reaching the top.
In Stuck, Chin shows that there is a “bamboo ceiling” in the workplace, describing a corporate world where racial and ethnic inequalities prevent upward mobility. Drawing on interviews with second-generation Asian Americans, she examines why they fail to advance as fast or as high as their colleagues, showing how they lose out on leadership positions, executive roles, and entry to the coveted boardroom suite over the course of their careers. An unfair lack of trust from their coworkers, absence of role models, sponsors and mentors, and for women, sexual harassment and prejudice especially born at the intersection of race and gender are only a few of the factors that hold Asian American professionals back.
Ultimately, Chin sheds light on the experiences of Asian Americans in the workplace, providing insight into and a framework of who is and isn’t granted access into the upper echelons of American society, and why.

Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued. If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that you're a woman.
Invisible Women shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the population. It exposes the gender data gap – a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against women, and that has created a pervasive but invisible bias with a profound effect on women’s lives.
Award-winning campaigner and writer Caroline Criado Perez brings together for the first time an impressive range of case studies, stories and new research from across the world that illustrate the hidden ways in which women are forgotten, and the impact this has on their health and well-being. From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, urban planning and the media, Invisible Women reveals the biased data that excludes women. In making the case for change, this powerful and provocative book will make you see the world anew.

In the past twenty-five years, a number of countries have made the transition to democracy. The support of international organizations is essential to success on this difficult path. Yet, despite extensive research into the relationship between democratic transitions and membership in international organizations, the mechanisms underlying the relationship remain unclear.
With Organizing Democracy, Paul Poast and Johannes Urpelainen argue that leaders of transitional democracies often have to draw on the support of international organizations to provide the public goods and expertise needed to consolidate democratic rule. Looking at the Baltic states’ accession to NATO, Poast and Urpelainen provide a compelling and statistically rigorous account of the sorts of support transitional democracies draw from international institutions. They also show that, in many cases, the leaders of new democracies must actually create new international organizations to better serve their needs, since they may not qualify for help from existing ones.

A landmark work of social and cultural history, The Chosen vividly reveals the changing dynamics of power and privilege in America over the past century. Full of colorful characters (including Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, James Bryant Conant, and Kingman Brewster), it shows how the ferocious battles over admissions at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton shaped the American elite and bequeathed to us the peculiar system of college admissions that we have today. From the bitter anti-Semitism of the 1920s to the rise of the “meritocracy” at midcentury to the debate over affirmative action today, Jerome Karabel sheds surprising new light on the main events and social movements of the twentieth century. No one who reads this remarkable book will ever think about college admissions -- or America -- in the same way again.

In the wake of labor market deregulation during the 2000s, online content sharing and social networking platforms were promoted in Japan as new sites of work that were accessible to anyone. Enticed by the chance to build personally fulfilling careers, many young women entered Japan's digital economy by performing unpaid labor as photographers, net idols, bloggers, online traders, and cell phone novelists. While some women leveraged digital technology to create successful careers, most did not. In Invisibility by Design Gabriella Lukács traces how these women's unpaid labor became the engine of Japan's digital economy. Drawing on interviews with young women who strove to sculpt careers in the digital economy, Lukács shows how platform owners tapped unpaid labor to create innovative profit-generating practices without employing workers, thereby rendering women's labor invisible. By drawing out the ways in which labor precarity generates a demand for feminized affective labor, Lukács underscores the fallacy of the digital economy as a more democratic, egalitarian, and inclusive mode of production.

Left-leaning political parties play an important role as representatives of the poor and disempowered. They once did so by promising protections from the forces of capital and the market’s tendencies to produce inequality. But in the 1990s they gave up on protection, asking voters to adapt to a market-driven world. Meanwhile, new, extreme parties began to promise economic protections of their own—albeit in an angry, anti-immigrant tone.
To better understand today’s strange new political world, Stephanie L. Mudge’s Leftism Reinvented analyzes the history of the Swedish and German Social Democrats, the British Labour Party, and the American Democratic Party. Breaking with an assumption that parties simply respond to forces beyond their control, Mudge argues that left parties’ changing promises expressed the worldviews of different kinds of experts. To understand how left parties speak, we have to understand the people who speak for them.
Leftism Reinvented shows how Keynesian economists came to speak for left parties by the early 1960s. These economists saw their task in terms of discretionary, politically-sensitive economic management. But in the 1980s a new kind of economist, who viewed the advancement of markets as left parties’ main task, came to the fore. Meanwhile, as voters’ loyalties to left parties waned, professional strategists were called upon to “spin” party messages. Ultimately, left parties undermined themselves, leaving a representative vacuum in their wake. Leftism Reinvented raises new questions about the roles and responsibilities of left parties—and their experts—in politics today.

《劳作的女人》将女性的生活场景从深闺内闱的家庭生活拓展到了更为广阔的、处于急剧变革之中的城市空间。在城市化和市场力量的作用下，许多普通的女性迈出家门，她们外出工作去看电影、听戏、逛公园、逛大街。城市空间给女性提供了追寻自由的舞台，但也是她们遭受歧视、压迫的地方。无论社会上层还是下层，在传统的眼光看来女性应该是属于“内”的，家庭之外的领域传统上来说是男人的领地，对男人来说，进入公共空间的妇女是“有问题的”，她们对公共空间的分享、借用和占有逾越了性别的界限、挑战了男性的尊严。于是，这个空间里的偏见、压迫、骚扰和抗争从来没有停止。

好消息！人工智能无法取代人类，自动化永远存在最后一英里悖论。
坏消息！所有人都将被隐藏起来，成为信息机器上默默运转 的齿轮。
高度警觉视为“灵活”，孤立无援称为“自主”，克扣工资只是“技术错误”……
朝九晚五的全职就业逐步瓦解，在家工作得到的却不是自由。
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5年跨界研究，200余次实地访谈，10000余份问卷调查，
揭开即将波及全球数亿人，却鲜少见诸报端的新世界。
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★《金融时报》2019年评论家精选图书奖
★福特汉姆大学麦格农中心图书奖
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系统出现的一个小故障导致琼的MTurk账户突然被冻结——这是按需工人最可怕的噩梦。“没有一封电子邮件通知我软件出了问题；我只知道自己不能再登陆了，”她说，“我给客服打电话，他们告诉我必须等网站修复这个问题。账户冻结让我损失了近200美元。我失去了高薪工作，原因是平台自己出了问题，而不是我的工作质量有问题。”当事情出错的时候，琼这样的幽灵劳工根本不知道发生了什么，更别提追索补偿了。“我等了40个小时，不知道自己还能不能继续工作，能不能维持收入，也完全不知道原因。”
人类学家玛丽和计算机科学家西达尔特联手，揭露了人工智能和数字经济背后隐藏的人类劳动力。这支看不见的线上就业大军正不断扩张，它既不存在于现有的法律中，也未得到固有文化的承认，而算法无意识的残酷又带来了诸多未知。
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《销声匿迹》是一部即时的经典之作。它与那些阐明了制造业车间的伟大民族志形成共鸣。然而过去的产业依赖于一个生机勃勃的社区，其中人们一起工作、玩乐、生活。新的数字流水线上的工人们彼此并不相识，对我们而言也是陌生的。他们的不可见性使他们成了幽灵。格雷和苏里让我们能够看到他们，与他们共情，并认识到我们对于其处境的共谋。通过强调人工智能如何依赖于人类劳动，以及对于提供这些劳动的生命的丰富描述，作者们提出一个有着牢靠基础的面向改善和行动的策略工具包，从而为我们带来了希望。
——玛格丽特·莱维（Margaret Levi, 斯坦福大学政治学教授）

作家 / 电台主播 / 音乐家 克莱门西・伯顿-希尔
分享珍藏 古典音乐歌单
一整年的音乐探索指南
在网易云音乐或AppleMusic歌单，随时聆听
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🎼 编辑推荐
🎹 366首古典乐
最受欢迎的作品
或是音乐汪洋里的沧海遗珠
春秋晴雨，每日推荐
仿佛拥有一个可以拆一年的礼物盒子
每 个普通的日子
都有不同的惊喜
🎹 225位作曲家
从中世纪，蔓延到当代
1月1日从巴赫开始，12月31日以施特劳斯结束
超过二百二十五位作曲家的不同风格
带我们逐渐潜入古典音乐深海
🎹 跳出常规
不是百科全书式的知识罗列
更像一本厚厚的经典歌单
除了包含被人喜爱的音乐曲目
还罕见囊括四十多位女性及特殊文化背景作曲家的精彩作品
更真实、更鲜活的展示古典音乐的生生不息、丰富多元
🎹 轻松领悟
感性引导，理性解读
篇幅精短，随心阅读
古典音乐不再晦涩难懂、拒人千里
文字带来的心绪，每个人都能心领神会
🎹 随时聆听
附带Apple Music播放列表，精心整理网易云音乐歌单
无论你是谁，不论你身在何处
只要有网络，都能随心聆听
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🎹作家、电台主播、音乐家克莱门西・伯顿-希尔分享私家收藏的音乐宝库，用自己深爱的作品丰富你的生活。
对于“外行”来讲，古典音乐有着晦涩难懂且拒人于千里之外的名声。但作家、电台主播、音乐家克莱门西・伯顿-希尔相信，古典音乐的狂欢随时欢迎每个人的加入。无论你是谁，无论你来自哪里，无论你如何与音乐相遇，音乐都属于你。
🎹为一整年里每一个普通的日子准备了惊喜，每天一首，轻松有趣，仿佛可以拆一年的礼物盒子。
作者潜入了一千多年的古典音乐深海，甄选出超过二百二十五位作曲家的三百六十六首作品，从中世纪到当代，为现代人的生活提供可供思考、反省、建立联系的空间。每首作品篇幅都不长，可以利用碎片时间听完，无论是创造仪式还是当作背景都无妨，触动你的音乐总会属于你。
🎹跳出常规选择，介绍了四十多位女性作曲家，以及不少来自不同文化背景的作曲家。用一种鲜活的方式展示音乐的魔力。
这不是一本关于古典音乐正典的百科全书，也不会为读者展示人们刻板印象中“破旧的、陈列着死去的欧洲白人男性的博物馆”，而是用简单的聆听和感受，逐渐告诉读者：古典音乐是一种生生不息、丰富多元、充满活力的全球艺术形式。
🎹介绍了她的英国同胞作曲家，带我们领略各个时期的英国气质。
克莱门西・伯顿-希尔特意为我们介绍了一些她的英国同胞，带来四十多首不同时期的英国作品，并且骄傲地选择了一些英国音乐家的演绎。告诉读者，英国除了爱德华·埃尔加、亨利·普赛尔、本杰明·布里顿，还有杰拉德·芬齐、欧内斯特·法勒和威廉·沃尔顿。
🎹在apple music上提供了全部曲目的播放列表。
Apple music会员可在应用中直接搜索歌单名称，获取作者建好的播放列表，随时随地听到作者精心选择的演绎版本，更加能领会她写下这些文字时微妙的感触。
非ios用户也能通过编者精心制作网络歌单，在网易云音乐中获得相关音乐作品聆听途径。
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《奇遇之年》是绝对的享受——以极具启发性的方式引领你走过一年—— 埃迪・雷德梅恩
伯顿·希尔是古典音乐的传道者。这本轻松愉悦、内容丰富的古典音乐指南为人们每天提供一剂精神享受 ——《出版商周刊》
从巴赫开始，以施特劳斯结束，作者将一系列最受欢迎或少为人知古典音乐精华展现给读者。它们跨越千年，贮藏无数情感 ——《卫报》

Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority population in the country. Moreover, they provide a wonderful lens on the experiences of immigrants and minorities in the United States more generally, both historically and today. In this timely new text, Pawan Dhingra and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez critically examine key sociological topics through the experiences of Asian Americans, including social hierarchies (of race, gender, and sexuality), work, education, family, culture, identity, media, pan-ethnicity, social movements, and politics.
With vivid examples and lucid discussion of a broad range of theories, the authors demonstrate the contributions of the discipline of sociology to understanding Asian Americans, and vice versa. In addition, this text takes students beyond the boundaries of the United States to cultivate a comparative and global understanding of the Asian experience, as it has become increasingly transnational and diasporic.
Bridging sociology and the growing interdisciplinary field of Asian American studies, and uniquely placing them in dialogue with one another, this engaging text will be welcome in undergraduate and graduate sociology courses such as race and ethnic relations, immigration, and social stratification, as well as on ethnic studies courses more broadly.

Challenging the commonly held perception that immigrants' lives are shaped exclusively by their sending and receiving countries, Here, There, and Elsewhere breaks new ground by showing how immigrants are vectors of globalization who both produce and experience the interconnectedness of societies—not only the societies of origin and destination, but also, the societies in places beyond. Tahseen Shams posits a new concept for thinking about these places that are neither the immigrants' homeland nor hostland—the "elsewhere." Drawing on rich ethnographic data, interviews, and analysis of the social media activities of South Asian Muslim Americans, Shams uncovers how different dimensions of the immigrants' ethnic and religious identities connect them to different elsewheres in places as far-ranging as the Middle East, Europe, and Africa. Yet not all places in the world are elsewheres. How a faraway foreign land becomes salient to the immigrant's sense of self depends on an interplay of global hierarchies, homeland politics, and hostland dynamics. Referencing today's 24-hour news cycle and the ways that social media connects diverse places and peoples at the touch of a screen, Shams traces how the homeland, hostland, and elsewhere combine to affect the ways in which immigrants and their descendants understand themselves and are understood by others.