Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'. Bruno Latour's contention is that the word 'social' as used by Social Scientists has become laden with assumptions to the point where it has become a misnomer. When the adjective is applied to a phenomenon, it is used to indicate a stabilized state of affairs, a bundle of ties that in due course may be used to account for another phenomenon. Latour also finds the word used as if it described a type of material, in a comparable way to an adjective such as 'wooden' or 'steely'. Rather than simply indicating what is already assembled together, it is now used in a way that makes assumptions about the nature of what is assembled. It has become a word that designates two distinct things: a process of assembling: and a type of material, distinct from others. Latour shows why 'the social' cannot be thought of as a kind of material or domain, and disputes attempts to provide a 'social explanation' of other states of affairs. While these attempts have been productive (and probably necessary) in the past, the very success of the social sciences mean that they are largely no longer so. At the present stage it is no longer possible to inspect the precise constituents entering the social domain. Latour returns to the original meaning of 'the social' to redefine the notion and allow it to trace connections again. It will then be possible to resume the traditional goal of the social sciences, but using more refined tools. Drawing on his extensive work examining the 'assemblages' of nature, Latour finds it necessary to scrutinize thoroughly the exact content of what is assembled under the umbrella of Society. This approach, a 'sociology of associations' has become known as Actor-Network-Theory, and this book is an essential introduction both for those seeking to understand Actor-Network-Theory, or the ideas of one of its most influential proponents.

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★ 一份自我分析的行动纲领
“人们需要得到科学的凝视，这种凝视既是对象化的，又是理解性的，当它转向某人自己时，这个人就可能会接受自己，甚至提出自己的主张、要求获得做自己的权利。”
★一座面向非专业人士的社会学智识“武器库”
在本书收录的文章中，布迪厄直言“拒绝‘向已信教者传教’”，毅然将目光转向非专业读者、被支配群体，殚精竭虑地向他们传授社会学的思想方法:“我们必须将问题掌握在自己手中……你们可以获得理解这些事情的智识资源，不要让你们的义愤、盲目剥夺了自己使用理解工具的可能，做一个知识分子不是一种病。”
★概览布迪厄研究方法和主题的实用读本
布迪厄用一种简明扼要而不失严谨的语言阐明了其典型研究主题、理论方法和分析路径，坦诚地剖析了他与社会学家自身根深蒂固的预设的种种斗争。
★在这本书中，皮埃尔·布迪厄试图满足两个通常被视为矛盾的要求：说一种科学、自制的语言（这是与日常语言所携带的自发的社会哲学决裂的条件之一），同时将这种语言传递给那些处于被支配地位、被剥夺了智识武器的人们……在这里，布迪厄的工作绝非反智主义的，而是基于对知识分子责任的敏锐（也许是虚幻的）认识。“所有在对必然性的认识上的进步，都是潜在的自由的进步”：位于知识生产位置上的知识分子可以用可能使他们对统治效果的抵抗更加自觉、对社会世界的理解更加顺畅的分析工具来武装被剥夺者。——罗杰·夏蒂埃
★布迪厄简明扼要地介绍了他那些对普遍社会理论产生了深远影响的思想和著作……与他的其他著作一样，这本书直击社会科学理论领域的核心要素。它邀请读者一同去探索一种险象环生，但富于人文关怀的、乐观的社会学。——《人类学季刊》
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“……在认识社会世界的规律这件事情上的所有进步，都会提高人们对必然性的认识程度……从而给予人们更多的自由。”就此而言，作为读者，更普遍地说，作为社会大众的一员，了解社会学，了解社会学家如何认识和分析我们自身，便是一项自我解放的事业。
本书是著名社会学家皮埃尔·布迪厄的一本文集，收录了21篇访谈、讲座文稿和会议论文。在本书中，布迪厄不仅用自己的社会学方法和基本概念（场域、惯习、资本、投资等）分析了流行文化的各个领域（体育、文学、时尚、音乐等），还在这些趣味盎然的分析中穿插了他对社会科学的认识论、方法论的哲学反思。
布迪厄力图将自身所学公之于众，展示社会学家的思考和分析历程，带领读者走进社会科学的“后厨”，并且告诫我们：不要认同一种思想，而要成为一种思想方法的主人。

Where is sociology headed? Are intellectuals fading from the scene? What of language and culture? The writings of Pierre Bourdieu have made a profound impact on the direction of sociological thought and general social theory. Pierre Bourdieu's latest work, Sociology in Question, offers an accessible yet challenging introduction to his ideas. In a series of discussions, lectures, and interviews, the range of Bourdieu's ideas is laid out and its relation to other disciplines and other sociological schools is explored. The issues developed include the sociology of culture, leisure and taste, the intrinsic reflexivity of social science, and the role of language in society and the social sciences. Sociology in Question is important reading for students and professionals who want to stay on the cutting edge of contemporary sociology and social theory. "Like his other writings, this book shakes the theoretical field of social science at its core. It invites the reader to explore a risky but fundamentally humanistic and optimistic sociology." --Anthropological Quarterly

Lewis Mumford's massive historical study brings together a wide array of evidence--from the earliest group habitats to medieval towns to the modern centers of commerce (as well as dozens of black-and-white illustrations)--to show how the urban form has changed throughout human civilization. His tone is ultimately somewhat pessimistic: Mumford was deeply concerned with what he viewed as the dehumanizing aspects of the metropolitan trend, which he deemed "a world of professional illusionists and their credulous victims." (In another typically unrestrained criticism, he dubbed the Pentagon a Bronze Age monument to humanity's basest impulses, as well as an "effete and worthless baroque conceit.") Mumford hoped for a rediscovery of urban principles that emphasized humanity's organic relationship to its environment. The City in History remains a powerfully influential work, one that has shaped the agendas of urban planners, sociologists, and social critics since its publication in the 1960s.

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.

本卷收录的《社会分工论》，是涂尔干1893年的博士论文，是其开山之作。一开始他就显示了他反对单一的功利主义思维的立场，他指出社会是多元的，是由种种矛盾的部分组成的，是要适应相互矛盾的种种需要的，必须有一种限定与平衡。他选取的题目是一个经济学的对象，但他却要从其中找出非经济的内核来。这本书的中心思想就是，劳动分工并不是纯粹经济现象。

涂尔干是与马克思和韦伯齐名的社会学三大奠基人之一，为19世纪末20世纪初人文和社会科学领域不可多得的集大成者之一。本书援用了大量人类学材料，从图腾制度出发讨论了宗教生活之构成的基本原理及命题，堪称涂尔干所有作品中最精湛的作品，也是最能代表其社会思想取向的文献。此外，本书还反映了涂尔干晚年思想的主要转向，即用社会决定论来构建道德个体主义的理论企图，其中的若干章节被认为知识社会学研究的范本。

《教育思想的演进》根据涂尔干1904-1905年在巴黎大学开设的“法国中等教育史”课程整理而成，是史学界公认的社会史的开山之作。它考察了长达十几个世纪的教育制度和观念史，几乎涵盖了法国启蒙教育从早期教会的“肇发时期”到19世纪的“危机时期”的演进过程。本书不仅把教育观念的演进与思想体系史融通起来，也与教育体制内的制度安排和实践形式环环相扣，以教育为视角和切入点，勾画了一幅现代性在制度化和文明化的意义上从生成到危机的全景。

C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the social, personal, and historical dimensions of our lives. The sociological imagination Mills calls for is a sociological vision, a way of looking at the world that can see links between the apparently private problems of the individual and important social issues. Leading sociologist Amitai Etzioni brings this fortieth anniversary edition up to date with a lucid introduction in which he considers the ways social analysis has progressed since Mills first published his study in 1959. A classic in the field, this book still provides rich food for our imagination.

An introduction to the work of the greatest German sociologist and a key figure in the development of present-day sociological thought.

流行音乐与资本主义之间究竟是一种什么样的关系？本书试图以流行音乐为中心，从各种不同的角度出发来思考这个问题。<br /><br />流行音乐的实践与前卫实验或左翼的实践不同，面对资本和权力，采取的通常是二重性立场，在拥有对抗性的同时，也隐藏着被同化的可能。这一特质在让（自称）激进的政治中心主义者感到焦躁的同时，也让我们看到了实现大众性动员和组织的可能性。这样的二重性本身，才是建立真正良好政治秩序的关键，也是流行音乐的魅力所在。<br /><br />流行音乐既不是与资本主义进行对抗的东西，也不是什么独立于资本主义存在的东西，它是从资本主义制造出来的无用的、过剩的、废弃的事物中被创造出来的。它曾经是资本主义的副产物，而现代社会的讽刺之处，便是这种副产物现在逐渐改头换面，变成了主要产物。而在此之后，流行音乐扮演的角色仍然会不断持续发生变化。<br /><br />那么，处于这样的时代之中，我们对流行音乐应该进行怎样的思考？当然并不存在现成的答案。不过可以肯定的是，流行音乐无论到什么时候都会一直被人聆听，而最终，我们也不能不去思考大众性的事物，因为在如今这个时代，就连拒绝大众性事物的超然态度，都已经被回收进大众性事物之中了。

《实践理论大纲》是布尔迪厄对于人、社会和文化的理论思考与探索，其田野调查材料来源于50年代的阿尔及利亚 ，通过对当地居民婚姻策略、仪式行为、神话的地位等问题的深入细致考察，布迪厄提出了有关“制度与实践、个人与社会、认识论与谋略、符号与社会场域辩证关系”的基本观点。
实践理论(Theory of Practice)这个概念，是布尔迪厄首先在他的《实践理论大纲》一书中提出的。作者始终在理论—田野—重新构建—阐述理论中不断深入。正如该书的出版者所说的，虽然该书既不能满足那些只对人类科学进行思考而不动手实践的“理论家”，也不能让那些只知埋头实践而不知坐下来思考的“实干家”满意，但对于人类学者和社会学家来说却是非常重要、不可不读的。

Outline of a Theory of Practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood. With his central concept of the habitus, the principle which negotiates between objective structures and practices, Bourdieu is able to transcend the dichotomies which have shaped theoretical thinking about the social world. The author draws on his fieldwork in Kabylia (Algeria) to illustrate his theoretical propositions. With detailed study of matrimonial strategies and the role of rite and myth, he analyses the dialectical process of the 'incorporation of structures' and the objectification of habitus, whereby social formations tend to reproduce themselves. A rigorous consistent materialist approach lays the foundations for a theory of symbolic capital and, through analysis of the different modes of domination, a theory of symbolic power.

何塞·奥尔特加·伊·加塞特被视为l7世纪以来西班牙最重要的哲学家，《大众的反叛》是奥尔特加最负盛名的著作，出版后一时好评如潮，《大西洋月刊》甚至载文评论说此书之于20世纪，一如《社会契约论》之于18世纪，《资本论》之于19世纪。奥尔特加认为大众反叛的根源之一就在于欧洲的衰败与没落，但他对一战以后喧嚣一时的“西方的没落”这一悲观论调颇不以为然。对此，他展开了详尽的分析。《大众的反叛》全书分为两大部分，这两个部分之间各自独立又互相联系：在第一部分中，奥尔特加对“大众的反叛”这一时代特征做出了诊断与剖析；在第二部分中，他将“大众的反叛”由欧洲国家内部推延至整个国际领域，由“大众人”转而分析“大众民族”。本书的翻译底本采用西班牙TAURUS出版社最权威的《奥尔特加作品全集》中收录的《大众的反叛》，包括法文版前言和英文版后记以及作者的一篇《关于和平主义》的文章。

本书用迷人的笔触，以十九世纪的政治和社会革命为背景，透过哥德、马克思、陀思妥耶夫斯基等人的主要作品，向我们展示了一幅充满矛盾和暧昧不明的现代世界画面。通过重新阐释马克思和深入思考罗伯特·摩西对现代城市生活的影响，作者标示出了二十世纪及其以后的发展轨迹。他得出的结论是，适应不断的变化是可能的，建设真正现代社会的希望也正是在这里。

本书是列维-斯特劳斯在马塞尔·莫斯去世后为其文集《社会学与人类学》一书写的导言，之后由法国大学出版社以单行本出版。这部简要却影响深远的著作既是对莫斯著作和观念的精要概述，也是列维-斯特劳斯在学术观念渐趋成熟时期对自己的人类学理论的阐发，被视为结构人类学的宣言。本书在国内是首次以单行本出版，由青年学者谢晶翻译并作导读。
马塞尔·莫斯（Marcel Mauss, 1872—1950）是20世纪法国著名人类学家、社会学家。作为涂尔干的弟子，他曾与涂尔干合著《分类的几种原始形式》，并在涂尔干1917年去世后接任《社会学年鉴》主编，1931年成为法兰西公学的社会学讲席教授。莫斯的思想为列维-斯特劳斯的结构主义研究提供了启迪，对法国20世纪后半期的人类学和社会学等多个领域都有深刻影响。