本书对社会学理论、科学哲学、分析哲学、语言哲学、现象学、社会批判理论及哈贝马斯的思想进行了系统的梳理，对当代社会政治理论的主要流派中最重要、最具代表性的思想家进行了详细而精当的分析。它所呈现的各理论流派并不是互不联系的，呈现的方式也不是平铺直叙的个别介绍，而是排列成一个辩证的顺序，有优劣、高下之分，其根据主要是“知识论—科学哲学—方法论”这一轴线。本书是实用主义、哈贝马斯思想、后实证主义、后经验主义和批判理论相结合的代表作。

吉登斯深刻地讨论了政治学、社会学与社会理论之间的关联，对主要的社会理论大师进行了系统的梳理，旨在对经典社会理论和最近的思想流派中的一组议题予以一系列的整合性反思。该书的出版可有助于读者更好地理解社会理论的脉络及其对政治学和社会学的影响。

First published in 1986 Mary Douglas’ theory of institutions uses the sociological theories of Emile Durkheim and Ludwig Fleck to determine not only how institutions think, but also the extent to which thinking itself is dependent upon institutions. Different kinds of institutions allow individuals to think different kinds of thoughts and to respond to different emotions. It is just as difficult to explain how individuals come to share the categories of their thought as to explain how they ever manage to sink their private interests for a common good.
Douglas forewarns us that institutions do not think independently, nor do they have purposes, nor do they build themselves. As we construct our institutions, we are squeezing each other’s ideas into a common shape in order to prove their legitimacy by sheer numbers. She admonishes us not to take comfort in the thought that primitives may think through institutions, but moderns decide on important issues individually. Our legitimated institutions make major decisions, and these decisions always involve ethical principles.

《身体之重》聚焦于身体和性别的物质性和述行性。巴特勒在本书中引入“征” 、“复现”等重要概念，厘清了她首次在《性别麻烦》中提出并引起广泛争议的“性别述行”理论。通过解读柏拉图、伊瑞葛来、拉康、弗洛伊德、德里达等人的相关论述，以及威拉·凯瑟和詹妮·利文斯顿等人的文学文本和电影作品，本书详细考察了霸权话语如何形构了身体、性别和性属，揭示了在此过程中必然产生的排除、错综复杂的身份认同及其不确定性。巴特勒还在书中提出了诸多尚未解决的议题，这意味着身体政治将进入一个更具开放性的话语空间。
巴特勒认为性别的规制力是一种生产力，它具有生产它所控制的身体的力量。性别是被强行物质化了的理想建构——它不是身体的简单事实或静态状况，而是一个过程，通过对律法的反复征引和复现，管制规范强行对身体和性别加以物质化。而这种物质化从来不曾真正完成，事实上，规制性律法的权力可以被反戈一击，生成质疑这种霸权的再表述。

From Contention to Democracy addresses a crucial aspect of contemporary societies: the role of social movements for political and social change. The volume gathers together essays written by prominent social theorists who have been asked to reflect on the relationship between movements and processes of social, political, and cultural change.

In this sociological work, Doug McAdam presents a political-process model that explains the rise and decline of the black protest movement in the United States. Moving from theoretical concerns to empirical analysis, he focuses on the crucial role of three institutions that foster protest: black churches, black colleges and Southern chapters of the NAACP. He concludes that political opportunities, a heightened sense of political efficacy, and the development of these three institutions played a central role in shaping the civil rights movement. In his introduction, McAdam revisits the civil rights struggle in light of recent scholarship on social movement origins and collective action.

What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary revolutions? Arguing from an exciting and original perspective, Goldstone suggests that great revolutions were the product of 'ecological crises' that occurred when inflexible political, economic, and social institutions were overwhelmed by the cumulative pressure of population growth on limited available resources. Moreover, he contends that the causes of the great revolutions of Europe--the English and French revolutions--were similar to those of the great rebellions of Asia, which shattered dynasties in Ottoman Turkey, China, and Japan. The author observes that revolutions and rebellions have more often produced a crushing state orthodoxy than liberal institutions, leading to the conclusion that perhaps it is vain to expect revolution to bring democracy and economic progress. Instead, contends Goldstone, the path to these goals must begin with respect for individual liberty rather than authoritarian movements of 'national liberation.' Arguing that the threat of revolution is still with us, Goldstone urges us to heed the lessons of the past. He sees in the United States a repetition of the behavior patterns that have led to internal decay and international decline in the past, a situation calling for new leadership and careful attention to the balance between our consumption and our resources. Meticulously researched, forcefully argued, and strikingly original, Revolutions and Rebellions in the Early Modern World is a tour de force by a brilliant young scholar. It is a book that will surely engender much discussion and debate.

Although he is generally recognized as one of the leading analysts of contemporary social movements, few of Alberto Melucci’s writings have been published in English. Nomads of the Present makes available for the first time in English a coherent and representative sample of Melucci’s most important essays. This synthesis of his work on social movements is no mere collection of previously published essays: each chapter draws on the author’s work in several different places. Of the thirteen interrelated essays in this volume, only five have been published elsewhere in English. The book also features an interview with Alberto Melucci conducted by John Keane and Paul Mier.
Contents
1. Contemporary Social Movements (from "Social Movements in the 1980s," "The New Social Movements," and "Ten Hypotheses")
2. Towards a Theory of Collective Action (from "Getting Involved: Identity and Mobilization In Social Movements")
3. Identity and Collective Action (from "L'invenzione del presente")
4. Social Movements and Social Change (from "Movimenti di rivolta," "Lotte sociali e mutamento," and "L'invenzione del presente")
5. New Social Movements? (from "An End to Social Movements?," "The Symbolic Challenge of Contemporary Movements," and "Is There Anything New in New Social Movements?")
6. Individual Needs and System Constraints in Complex Societies (from "L'invenzione del presente" and "Altri codici")
7. The Invention of the Present (from "L'invenzione del presente" and "Altri codici")
8. The Symbolic Challenge: Culture or Politics? (from "Nazioni senza Stato," "Altri codici," and "The Symbolic Challenge of Contemporary Movements")
9. New Cultural Codes in Everyday Life (from "Everyday Life and Collective Action" and "Corpi estranei")
10. Movements as Messages (from "Altri codici" and "Sistema politico, partiti e movimenti sociali")
11. Action and Consciousness: Methods for the Analysis of Contemporary Movements (from "Altri codici")
12. Movements and the Political System (from "New Movements, Terrorism and the Political System" and "L'invenzione del presente")
13. The Democratization of Everyday Life (from "Social Movements and the Democratization of Everyday Life")
14. Social Movements in Complex Societies: An Interview with Alberto Melucci

《劳工的力量-1870年以来的工人运动与全球化》，本书是贝弗里·J·西尔弗的代表作，这本书出版以来国内外引用率都很高。作者对世界主要地区近150年的工人运动和全球化现象作了全面梳理，并对世界经济发展中的金融调整和世界劳工运动的当代危机和未来发展做出了自己的评价。

在西方思想史和学术史上，对政治文化的研究源远流长。西方政治文化研究可分为三大谱系，即法国的社会学谱系、德国的文化哲学谱系以及美国的政治科学谱系。当代政治文化研究以美国的政治科学谱系为主流。1956年阿尔蒙德正式提出“政治文化”概念，1963年他又与维巴合作出版了《公民文化——五个国家的政治态度和民主制》，此为当代科学的政治文化研究，从1980年代起，政治文化研究经历了从“回归”到“复兴”进而走向繁荣的过程。复兴后的政治文化研究出现了前所未有的繁荣，一大批有影响、有重大原创性贡献的成果问世，本书为其中之一。

梁文道、刘瑜、熊培云、许知远联袂主编——“理想国译丛”（MIRROR）系列之一（004）——保持开放性的思想和非功利的眼睛，看看世界的丰富性与复杂性。本书有刘瑜专文导读“重读福山之一：历史的漫长终结”。
随着“冷战”结束，狂乱的二十世纪终于趔趔趄趄走到终点，福山重提过去几个世纪来伟大哲学家提出的问题：人类历史是有方向的吗？如果是有方向的，它将通向什么样的终点？相对于“历史的终结”，我们正处身在哪儿？
在本书中，福山提出，有两大力量在共同推动着人类历史的前进，一个是现代自然科学的逻辑，一个是黑格尔—科耶夫所谓的“寻求承认的斗争”：前者驱使人类通过合理的经济过程满足无限扩张的欲望，后者则驱使人类寻求平等的承认。随着时间的推移，这两股力量最终导致各种专制暴政倒台，推动文化各不相同的社会建立起奉行开放市场的自由民主国家。紧随而来的问题是，在“历史的终结处”，政治经济的自由平等，是否能够产生一个稳定的社会，让生活在其内的人得到“完全的满足”，抑或，“最后的人”被剥夺了征服欲的出口，不可避免地导致他们冒险一试，让历史重返混乱与流血状态？
福山对这些终极问题的当代思考，既是引人入胜的历史哲学教育，又是对人类社会及其命运这些最深刻问题的发人深思的探寻。

人們或許用成見或刻板印象概括他們眼裡的社會運動，然而社會運動卻不僅止於激情的身體和聲嘶的叫囂；它們背後蘊藏了豐沃的生命與故事，將曾經孤獨的理念群聚，形成了一波波的力量，在一次又一次的衝撞當中，載著整個社會緩緩向前。
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《運動作為整個社會自我教習》〈Movements as Societal Self-Pedagogy〉摘選出十數篇文章，帶我們閱讀社會運動的人與事、讓我們進入參與者的生命經驗，反思「我」存在於社會的位置。

《普通社会学纲要》内容简介：人类社会是诸多研究的对象。有些研究构成专门学科，诸如法学、历史学、政治经济学、宗教史，等等；另一些研究包含的学科还很混杂；一门学科，即它们的综合，并专注于一般地研究人类社会，可以称之为社会学。

一个无与伦比的成就……这部著作让我们直接感受到葛兰西思想的繁复与多样。 ——理查德·贝拉米（《泰晤士报文学副刊》） 在葛兰西那里，马克思主义找到了无产阶级思想传统可能传承（只要社会有利于民主）的典范。 ——威廉·哈特利（《意大利季刊》） 安东尼奥·葛兰西的《狱中札记》一直跻身于西方政治思想著作最为显著者的行列。 ——特里·伊格尔顿

《社会运动(1768-2004)》展现了当前世界范围内的社会运动正在如何变化——涵盖了新技术和全球化的影响，磨砺了人们对于上述影响是否为“新”以及怎样为“新”的认识；追溯了社会运动的创建与演进历程，伴之以对社会运动何以丧失活力的检讨；探索了诸如“民主化何以真正发生？”等根本性的问题；考察了社会运动与身份、公民权及资本的关系，并对社会运动能否生存于威杈主义国家进行了思考。