我们一般认为记忆属于个体官能,不过,有些思想家一致认为,存在着这样一种东西,它叫做集体记亿或者社会记忆,于是,本书涉及的问题是:群体的记亿如何传播和保持? 作者在短短十多万字的篇幅中,为读者论证了有关过去的形象和有关过去的回亿性知识,是在 (或多或少是仪式的) 操演中传送和保持的。作者见解独到地关注于这类社会记忆中的体化实践而非刻写实践,这对研究社会、政治和人类学的学者来说,不无理论启迪。

Examines the effects of the policies of the Chinese Communist Party on the daily lives of the rural people.

人的经验是可以跨代传递的，建筑、景色、声响、气味和触觉印象等等本身也承载着历史和回忆。回忆是如何进行的，是如何传承的？在此过程中，日常的象征性和社会性实践起到什么样的作用？
记忆问题的研究，在西方学界已经有二十多年的探索。本书是来自历史学、传播学、社会心理学和神经心理学等学科的国际学者跨学科合作的成果，历史和回忆之间的复杂关系是本书研讨的核心，他们提出了“社会记忆”这一概念，作为对文化记忆和沟通记忆的补充，集中研讨了无意图地传承历史的形式和实践。
作者们初次尝试提供一种有关“社会记忆”的理论，为考察进行回忆和忘却的社会组织打开了一个崭新的视角。

简介：
本书从多角度考察了怀旧这种社会现象。第一部从波德莱尔的意象、本雅明的“历史的天使”讲到好莱坞的恐龙和虚拟空间，追述怀旧从十七世纪的“疑病”演变为不可医治的现代症状的历史。第二部着眼于城市和后共产主义的记忆，描写莫斯科、圣彼得堡和柏林的变迁以及东西欧的关系。第三部写流亡者想象中的家园，包括移民美国的俄国作家纳博科夫、诗人布罗茨基、艺术家卡巴科夫等。各种形式的怀旧反映出多元意识形态与文化传统之间、社会与个人之间的复杂碰撞。作者提出主要有两类怀旧：修复型的怀旧试图超历史地重建失去的家园；反思型怀旧则关注人类怀想和归属的模糊涵义，不避讳现代性的种种矛盾。

How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct
our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) addressed this
question for the first time in his work on collective memory,
which established him as a major figure in the history of
sociology. This volume, the first comprehensive English-
language translation of Halbwach's writings on the social
construction of memory, fills a major gap in the literature
on the sociology of knowledge.
Halbwachs' primary thesis is that human memory can only
function within a collective context. Collective memory,
Halbwachs asserts, is always selective; various groups of
people have different collective memories, which in turn give
rise to different modes of behavior. Halbwachs shows, for
example, how pilgrims to the Holy Land over the centuries
evoked very different images of the events of Jesus' life;
how wealthy old families in France have a memory of the past
that diverges sharply from that of the nouveaux riches; and
how working class constructions of reality differ from those
of their middle-class counterparts.
With a detailed introduction by Lewis A. Coser, this
translation will be an indispensable source for new research
in historical sociology and cultural memory.
Lewis A. Coser is Distinguished Professor of Sociology
Emeritus at the State University of New York and Adjunct
Professor of Sociology at Boston College.

With crucial insights and indispensable information concerning modern-day political upheavals, Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements provides a representative cross section of the most significant revolutions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This fourth edition is revised and updated with special focus on Islamic fundamentalism and Islamic revolutionary movements and a new chapter on the Latin American democratic revolutions of the past decade. In this widely used text, students can trace the historical development of nine revolutions using a five-factor analytical framework. Author James DeFronzo clearly explains all relevant concepts and events, the roles of key leaders, and the interrelation of each revolutionary movement with international economic and political developments and conflicts, including World Wars I and II, the Cold War, and the War on Terror. Student resources include multiple orienting maps, summary and analysis sections, suggested readings, chronologies, and documentary resources.

几百年来，医学致力于医治病变。但是今天，常态本身可以进行医学改进。医学现在具备了对身体和头脑的分子理解，具备了在分子、细胞和基因层面上操控基本生命过程的新技术，现在它试图控制人的生命过程。本书仔细研究了生命科学和生物医学的近期发展，这些发展使得医学、人类生命和生物技术普遍政治化。
作者尼古拉斯•罗斯避免了大众科学的炒作和大多数社会科学的悲观情绪，分析了当前的分子生命政治、基因组学、神经科学、药理学和精神药理学的发展，探讨了它们是如何影响种族政治、犯罪控制和精神病学的。罗斯在书中不仅分析了生物医学从进行治疗到管理生命的转变、新近对治疗疾病易感性而不是疾病的强调、我们对病人的理解出现的变化，还讨论了新的医疗行动主义形式的出现、生命资本的兴起和生命权力的变化。他认为：“这些发展对我们认为我们是谁，以及我们想成为什么人产生了深远的影响。”

In Reforming Asian Labor Systems, Frederic C. Deyo examines the implications of post-1980s market-oriented economic reform for labor systems in China, South Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand. Adopting a critical institutionalist perspective, he explores the impact of elite economic interests and strategies, labor politics, institutional path dependencies, and changing economic circumstances on regimes of labor and social regulation in these four countries. Of particular importance are reform-driven socioeconomic and political tensions that, especially following the regional financial crisis of the late 1990s, have encouraged increased efforts to integrate social and developmental agendas with those of market reform.
Through his analysis of the social economy of East and Southeast Asia, Deyo suggests that several Asian countries may now be positioned to repeat what they achieved in earlier decades: a prominent role in defining new international models of development and market reform that adapt to the pressures and constraints of the evolving world economy.

《战后香港社会流动研究:婴儿潮世代打造的"香港梦"》的实证内容来自博士论文的部分访谈资料。一方面，《战后香港社会流动研究:婴儿潮世代打造的"香港梦"》将受访者视为家中的子女，研究其父母对他们所用的家庭策略，阐释被访者往上爬的经历，以说明流动过程；另一方面，《战后香港社会流动研究:婴儿潮世代打造的"香港梦"》也将受访者视为父母，研究他们对子女的教育策略，说明流动所带来的后果。此外，作者讨论了被访者经历流动后如何论述他们的流动故事和所流露出的情感，以进一步了解流动是否影响他们个人的世界观和对社会公平的看法。

本书据Duxbury Press第5版译出。内容分为8个部分，共20章，分上下两册。各章均有大量习题。作者使用实例来引入主题，并把统计概念和实际问题联系在一起进行讲解，介绍了统计数据的收集和分析过程，讨论了如何解释数据分析的结果，并专门讲述了如何写数据分析报告。

Market societies have created more wealth, and more opportunities for more people, than any other system of social organization in history. Yet we still have a rudimentary understanding of how markets themselves are social constructions that require extensive institutional support. This groundbreaking work seeks to fill this gap, to make sense of modern capitalism by developing a sociological theory of market institutions. Addressing the unruly dynamism that capitalism brings with it, leading sociologist Neil Fligstein argues that the basic drift of any one market and its actors, even allowing for competition, is toward stabilization. The "Architecture of Markets" represents a major and timely step beyond recent, largely empirical studies that oppose the neoclassical model of perfect competition but provide sparse theory toward a coherent economic sociology.Fligstein offers this theory. With it he interprets not just globalization and the information economy, but developments more specific to American capitalism in the past two decades - among them, the 1980s merger movement. He makes new inroads into the "theory of fields," which links the formation of markets and firms to the problems of stability. His political-cultural approach explains why governments remain crucial to markets and why so many national variations of capitalism endure. States help make stable markets possible by, for example, establishing the rule of law and adjudicating the class struggle.State-building and market-building go hand in hand. Fligstein shows that market actors depend mightily upon governments and the members of society for the social conditions that produce wealth. He demonstrates that systems favoring more social justice and redistribution can yield stable markets and economic growth as readily as less egalitarian systems. This book will surely join the classics on capitalism. Economists, sociologists, policymakers, and all those interested in what makes markets function as they do will read it for many years to come.

Despite the dominant narrative of the repression of civil society in China, Civil Society Under Authoritarianism: The China Model argues that interactions between local officials and civil society facilitate a learning process, whereby each actor learns about the intentions and work processes of the other. Over the past two decades, often facilitated by foreign donors and problems within the general social framework, these interactions generated a process in which officials learned the benefits and disadvantages of civil society. Civil society supports local officials' efforts to provide social services and improve public policies, yet it also engages in protest and other activities that challenge social stability and development. This duality motivates local officials in China to construct a "social management" system - known as consultative authoritarianism - to encourage the beneficial aspects and discourage the dangerous ones. Although civil society has not democratized China, such organizations have facilitated greater dialogue between citizens and state as part of politics in an authoritarian system that normally lacks such channels for participation.

希特勒为什么屠杀犹太人，卢旺达的种族大屠杀一夜之间使多数民族变成了少数民族……集体大屠杀，是因为利益、权力、还是恐惧？集体杀戮与灭族屠杀的起因一直是很多社会评论家和心理学家在思索的问题。
作者以全新的观点与复杂的角度来探讨，并从社会心理学层面深入研究暴力被合理化的根源，其呈现出历史与社会学的广度却是所有同类研究所不及的，也为集体暴力的研究打开了新的视野。在检视历史的向度之中，本书跳脱了概括性的谴责，从杀人者的角度来解剖他们的杀人动机，为的是让这个泯绝人性的行为不只是单一方向的检讨，更且探照杀人者的心境与历史背景，让事件的还原有更丰富的纵深。不仅如此，作者进一步举出多数社会中已经在应用的缓和暴力的机制，从而点出未来防止灭族屠杀的对策方向，全书结论所提出的见解，值得每一位研究者、决策者、有心的公民深思。

杨庆堃的这部《中国社会中的宗教》是研究中国宗教、社会和文化的经典作品，被誉为研究中国宗教的“圣经”。全书对中国宗教进行了非常全面的分析与阐述，详细考察了中国社会中各种类型的信仰，以及国家政治、经济和儒家学说的关系，描述了中国社会与宗教的整合状况。对中国社会和中国宗教的比较研究有兴趣的读者均可阅读。
序言：研究中国宗教的社会学范式——杨庆堃眼中的中国社会宗教
序言
作者自序
第一章 导论
第二章 家庭整合中的宗教
第三章 社会和经验之谈团体中的宗教
第四章 民间信仰的公众性
第五章 历史视角下中国宗教的政治作用
第六章 天命的运作
第七章 政治伦理信仰：“以神道设教”
第八章 国家对宗教的管理
第九章 宗教与政治反抗
第十章 儒学家说及其仪式中的宗教面向
第十一章 宗教和传统道德秩序
第十二章 中国社会中的分散性和制度性宗教
第十三章 宗教在1949年前中国社会中角色的变化
后记
参考文献
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本书在两个主题下对甘肃大川进行了精细的考察。第一个涉及人的受难，包括个人的遭遇和社区的挫败，第二个涉及对灾难的处理，以及在ZZ迫害、经济萧条、文化中断之后的复苏。

本書作者以自己的故鄉高家村作為研究對象，近距離深描了這個江西的普通農村從1949年到1990年代中期各方面的情況和變遷。作者刻意回避宏大敘事而回歸個體經驗，力求站在高家村人的立場上，書寫底層農民在這數十年間的真正經歷和感受。作者本就來自農村，因此他的平民立場格外地自發自然，筆下的農民和農村也尤具說服力。
在書中，作者展現了一幅迥異於國內外主流論述所塑造的農村圖景。因此全書雖是白描式的日常敘述，卻始終處在一種無形的論辯中。本書在還未進入中文世界之前，就已引起中國知識界的激烈論爭，足見其背後蘊含的巨大衝擊力。

This book reconsiders the Chinese Cultural Revolution from the perspective of the current economic and political climate. With contributions from leading international scholars, this volume brings together the latest research on explanations for China's revolution and its legacy.

本书运用“边缘研究”方法，对“华夏边缘”作了新的解读。作者认为，所谓“边缘研究”，就是“这种研究法将研究的重点由民族的内涵转移至民族的边缘”。并由此通过对“华夏生态边界的形成”、“华夏族群边缘的形成与扩张”、“华夏族群边缘的维持与变迁”等的论述，用以揭示在特定的资源竞争与分配环境中，华夏边缘如何形成与变迁，华夏如何借历史记忆与失忆来凝聚、扩张，以及华夏边缘人群如何借历史记忆与失忆来成为华夏或成为非华夏。
究竟什么是中国人？作为一位研究中国边疆民族史的台湾学者，作者引用大量历史、考古和人类学资料，从一个新的角度——族群边缘的形成与历史回忆——来解读华夏（中国人）的本质，说明在特定的资源竞争与分配环境中，华夏边缘如何形成与变迁，华夏如何藉历史记忆与失忆来凝聚、扩张，以及华夏边缘人群如何藉历史记忆与失忆来成为华夏或成为非华夏。