为了推动我国时间利用研究，实现联合国2030可持续发展目标和党的19大提出的中国特色社会主义新时代发展目标，2017年内蒙古大学与西南财经大学合作，在除新疆，西藏以外的29个进省市行了我国的第二次大规模时间利用调查。通过入户访谈填写日志的方法，调查队收集了来自于12,484个家庭的年龄在三岁以上30,715个个人前一日凌晨4:00至当日凌晨4:00每10分钟内为*小时间段从事了什么活动，在哪里从事这些活动，从事这些活动时与谁在一起，从事主要活动是还从事哪些次要活动的翔实信息。根据联合国统计署（UNSD）的国际活动分类，利用调查队把活动分为有酬劳动，无酬劳动，教育培训，休闲社交和个人照料五大类，其中有酬劳动分为工作和工作相关活动，家庭生产经营活动；无酬劳动分为做家务，照顾家人和对外提供帮助，购物，修车等活动；社交休闲分为体育锻炼，娱乐休闲，社会交往和宗教活动；个人照料分为睡眠，个人卫生，吃饭及其它饮食活动。这11类活动又细分为大约300种小类活动。

In 2003, in the face of errors and accidents caused by medical and surgical trainees, the American Council of Graduate Medical Education mandated a reduction in resident work hours to eighty per week. Over the course of two and a half years spent observing residents and staff surgeons trying to implement this new regulation, Katherine C. Kellogg discovered that resistance to it was both strong and successful - in fact, two of the three hospitals she studied failed to make the change. "Challenging Operations" takes up the apparent paradox of medical professionals resisting reforms designed to help them and their patients. Through vivid anecdotes, interviews, and incisive observation and analysis, Kellogg shows the complex ways that institutional reforms spark resistance when they challenge long-standing beliefs, roles, and systems of authority. At a time when numerous policies have been enacted to address the nation's soaring medical costs, uneven access to care, and shortage of primary-care physicians, "Challenging Operations" sheds new light on the difficulty of implementing reforms and offers concrete recommendations for effectively meeting that challenge.

An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth. Albert O. Hirschman makes a basic distinction between alternative ways of reacting to deterioration in business firms and, in general, to dissatisfaction with organizations: one, “exit,” is for the member to quit the organization or for the customer to switch to the competing product, and the other, “voice,” is for members or customers to agitate and exert influence for change “from within.” The efficiency of the competitive mechanism, with its total reliance on exit, is questioned for certain important situations. As exit often undercuts voice while being unable to counteract decline, loyalty is seen in the function of retarding exit and of permitting voice to play its proper role.

The interplay of the three concepts turns out to illuminate a wide range of economic, social, and political phenomena. As the author states in the preface, “having found my own unifying way of looking at issues as diverse as competition and the two-party system, divorce and the American character, black power and the failure of ‘unhappy’ top officials to resign over Vietnam, I decided to let myself go a little.”

No ethnographer can record and analyze everything that she encounters in the field. We must make choices about what to look at and how to look at it, which means privileging some aspects of social life while bracketing others. Approaches to Ethnography enumerates the key analytic strategies-which Jerolmack and Khan call approaches-that ethnographers deploy to tame the buzzing confusion of the social world. The book identifies eight approaches that typify ethnography, which it groups and compares along four axes: 1) Micro, organizational, and macro; 2) people and places, and mechanisms; 3) dispositions and situations; and 4) reflexivity. Each approach, it is shown, enables the illumination of a distinct dimension of the social world.
Every chapter is written by a seasoned ethnographer who enumerates one of the approaches and reflects on how that approach shapes their field site selection, observations, and analysis. Taken as a whole, the chapters show how these approaches, which operate more like sensitizing devices than theoretical mandates, can play a greater role in guiding the kinds of questions that get asked and answered in the field than whether one adopts an inductive or deductive stance toward theory. Engaging, accessible, and often inspiring, Approaches to Ethnography offers a practical and novel way to teach, evaluate, and conceptualize ethnographic research.

What do variables really tell us? When exactly do inventions occur? Why do we always miss turning points as they transpire? When does what doesn't happen mean as much, if not more, than what does? Andrew Abbott considers these fascinating questions in Time Matters, a diverse series of essays that constitutes the most extensive analysis of temporality in social science today. Ranging from abstract theoretical reflection to pointed methodological critique, Abbott demonstrates the inevitably theoretical character of any methodology.

Time Matters focuses particularly on questions of time, events, and causality. Abbott grounds each essay in straightforward examinations of actual social scientific analyses. Throughout, he demonstrates the crucial assumptions we make about causes and events, about actors and interaction and about time and meaning every time we employ methods of social analysis, whether in academic disciplines, market research, public opinion polling, or even evaluation research. Turning current assumptions on their heads, Abbott not only outlines the theoretical orthodoxies of empirical social science, he sketches new alternatives, laying down foundations for a new body of social theory.

For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a processual ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing—making, remaking, and unmaking itself, instant by instant. He argues that even the units of the social world—both individuals and entities—must be explained by these series of events rather than as enduring objects, fixed in time. This radical concept, which lies at the heart of the Chicago School of Sociology, provides a means for the disciplines of history and sociology to interact with and reflect on each other.
In Processual Sociology, Abbott first examines the endurance of individuals and social groups through time and then goes on to consider the question of what this means for human nature. He looks at different approaches to the passing of social time and determination, all while examining the goal of social existence, weighing the concepts of individual outcome and social order. Abbott concludes by discussing core difficulties of the practice of social science as a moral activity, arguing that it is inescapably moral and therefore we must develop normative theories more sophisticated than our current naively political normativism. Ranging broadly across disciplines and methodologies, Processual Sociology breaks new ground in its search for conceptual foundations of a rigorously processual account of social life.
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Rogers Brubaker, University of California–Los Angeles
“Abbott has long been one of sociology’s most fertile and original thinkers. These lucid and challenging essays display Abbott’s remarkably wide-ranging sociological intelligence at its best. Cumulatively, they articulate the core principles of a distinctively processual sociology, and they challenge us to recognize the irreducibly humanistic and moral nature of the sociological enterprise.”
Paul DiMaggio, New York University
“Processual Sociology’s essays draw on a dizzying range of sources and examples, blended into a stunningly original, disruptive, and fecund analysis. The interrogation of such basic concepts as actor and outcome; the insights into the way that sequence and ecology frustrate causal reasoning; the effort to reconstitute macro-sociology on a radically micro-sociological foundation; and the reclamation of the moral dimension are just a few of this volume’s important themes. Processual Sociology is both a good read and an ambitious and compelling challenge to the way that social scientists understand and carry out their craft.”
Craig Calhoun, director, London School of Economics
“In Processual Sociology, Abbott makes clear that his ambition is to change sociology fundamentally. In elegant but also rigorous essays, he connects his seemingly disparate past writings and foreshadows a basic rethinking of social ontology. This starts from the historical character of individual life and moves on to connect historical demography to the nature of groups, the constant making and remaking of all cultural and social relationships, and the inextricable connection between the empirical and the moral. It is a brilliant book that makes one want to drop everything else to join in thinking about sociology’s hardest, most basic questions.”
Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania
“Abbott is the most surprising and innovative of today’s social theorists, in part because he combines disciplines as diverse as mathematical philosophy and literary theory. His work cuts in an entirely different way across the quantitative/qualitative and most other divides. Abbott repeatedly reverses the gestalts, advocating a lyrical sociology of contemporaneous flows rather than narratives explaining ‘outcomes’ abstracted from time, proposing that more is explained by problems of excess than problems of scarcity, and exposing concepts of inequality that run contrary to what we do in our own lives. This is a book to change the way sociologists think.”

This panoramic analysis of the condition of Western societies has been hailed as a classic. This first English edition has taken its place as a core text of contemporary sociology alongside earlier typifications of society as postindustrial and current debates about the social dimensions of the postmodern.
Underpinning the analysis is the notion of the `risk society′. The changing nature of society′s relation to production and distribution is related to the environmental impact as a totalizing, globalizing economy based on scientific and technical knowledge becomes more central to social organization and social conflict.

Every night, somewhere in the world, three or four musicians will climb on stage together. Whether the gig is at a jazz club, a bar, or a bar mitzvah, the performance never begins with a note, but with a question. The trumpet player might turn to the bassist and ask, “Do you know ‘Body and Soul’?”—and from there the subtle craft of playing the jazz repertoire is tested in front of a live audience. These ordinary musicians may never have played together—they may never have met—so how do they smoothly put on a show without getting booed offstage.
In “Do You Know . . . ?” Robert R. Faulkner and Howard S. Becker—both jazz musicians with decades of experience performing—present the view from the bandstand, revealing the array of skills necessary for working musicians to do their jobs. While learning songs from sheet music or by ear helps, the jobbing musician’s lexicon is dauntingly massive: hundreds of thousands of tunes from jazz classics and pop standards to more exotic fare. Since it is impossible for anyone to memorize all of these songs, Faulkner and Becker show that musicians collectively negotiate and improvise their way to a successful performance. Players must explore each others’ areas of expertise, develop an ability to fake their way through unfamiliar territory, and respond to the unpredictable demands of their audience—whether an unexpected gang of polka fanatics or a tipsy father of the bride with an obscure favorite song.
“Do You Know . . . ?” dishes out entertaining stories and sharp insights drawn from the authors’ own experiences and observations as well as interviews with a range of musicians. Faulkner and Becker’s vivid, detailed portrait of the musician at work holds valuable lessons for anyone who has to think on the spot or under a spotlight.

纽约是一个同时拥有着高峰和低谷的城市。在这个城市中，富有的精英、绝望的移民和贫困的当地人共享着生活的社区。弥合这一鸿沟的是纽约的地下经济。这是一个隐形的非法贫富交易网络，它将整个城市秘密地编织在一起。
哥伦比亚大学颇负盛名的社会学家素德•文卡特斯深入街头，将纽约悬殊的经济世界中的各个要素联结在一起。他将自身深深植根在这个被探索的秘密世界中，密切关注被锁定在地下经济中的多名纽约人。通过作者对毒贩、妓女、社会名流、移民及学者的大量访谈，本书将地下经济视为社会转型和城市繁荣的引擎，揭示出了纽约鲜为人知的图景。
本书呈现的是作者穿越纽约地下经济这一“巨大而无形的大陆”的旅程。它为我们展示了一个与我们的生活平行存在的世界，这个世界正蓬勃发展，但对于我们而言却是陌生的、难以想象的。打开本书，跟着社会学家了解跌宕起伏的人物故事，感受名符其实的“纽约折叠”。

《他者中的华人：中国近现代移民史》以大历史、大叙事的手笔，将中国移民走向世界的五百年历史，融会贯通于同期世界格局发展变化的大框架中，读来令人领悟深远。更重要的是，孔教授在展示全球华人移民五百年历史精彩画卷的基础上，有力论证了其重要观点: 海外华人历史是中国历史的题中应有之意，是研究中国历史不可或缺的组成部分。由是，海外华人研究被提升到新的境界。
从殖民统治者到被奴役的臣民，从独立后民族国家执掌大权的统治集团到洋溢民族主义激情的知识精英；从颐指气使的大富豪到埋头养家糊口的升斗小民，“华人”与周边“他者”之间呈现出错综复杂的互动关系。作为外来者，海外华人需要认识了解“他者”并与之共生共存；而后者同样也时时刻刻审视着这些远道而来的异乡人：他们是可以和平相处、共谋发展的新朋友，还是居心叵测的异类？他们究竟是带来新的利益和机会，还是潜在的麻烦制造者，或者简直就是不共戴天的敌人？漫漫数百年，移民与本地人互为“他者”，彼此之间有理解有依存，但也有竞争有对抗。在《他者中的华人：中国近现代移民史》一书中，孔教授再度展示了他在《叫魂》中熟练运用的社会心理剖析法，对华人移民置身其中的“他者”条分缕析。

非虛構寫作大師──何偉Peter Hessler
繼《甲骨文》、《尋路中國》最新力作！
從尋路中國到埃及考古，何偉跨越埃及獨有的兩種時間概念
——「循環」和「永恆」，
以中國的歷史和政治反襯，理解埃及的政治和歷史。
一邊書寫重現天日的考古巡禮，同時目擊嚮往民主而革命的新生埃及！
細膩描繪「阿拉伯之春」的開羅回憶，以及尋常人物在革命時期的心路轉折
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從二○一一到二○一六年，何偉以《紐約客》特派記者身分，舉家遷往開羅，報導自二○一○年末「阿拉伯之春」後，埃及所受的影響以及局勢變化。在這五年內，埃及經歷了兩次總統更換以及軍事政變，在他筆下，就像是在為最古老文明記錄一段劇烈動盪的片段現代史。
作者採用了三條線索交叉進行的敘述方式，一條線索是因「阿拉伯之春」而起的埃及革命。這是現代埃及經歷穆巴拉克下台、穆斯林兄弟上台再下台的故事。但這不能簡單理解為一個表面上民主的故事，在作者筆下，它似乎是理解古老埃及和現代埃及之間不斷革命和政治變化的循環。在這條線索中，何偉抓住了埃及議會法老廳裡一個擦鞋人的故事――他打從一九六四年開始就在法老廳擦鞋了。「納瑟的時候我就在這裡，沙達特的時候我也在這裡。」而這個擦鞋人也見證了穆巴拉克的失勢和穆斯林兄弟會的崛起。他身高約五呎，瘦得像根竹竿，雙手已經染成紅褐色。他的右眼已經永遠睜不開了。
第二條線索是上埃及的考古。搖擺於古文明與新世紀之間的埃及有兩種時間：「循環」，指的是尋常人世的歲月遞嬗、河水漲退；「永恆」，則代表不變不動、完美圓滿的諸神時間；在上述的革命背景之下，他的寫作手法以考古巡禮、革命記錄為交錯穿插。這兩種寫作內容都以時間的演進為記錄刻度，從中帶出埃及獨有的時間觀。
透過埃及獨有的兩種時間概念，藉此理解埃及古王國時代形成的價值體系如何影響今日埃及人的世界。這樣的切入點落實在作者對埃及人的觀察：「不知何故，埃及人就是能在自豪的同時感到羞愧，在樂觀的同時表現犬儒，在嚴肅的同時開起玩笑。即便他們正在抱怨強人領袖對這個國家所作的一切，他們還是熱愛強人領袖。等到其中一堂以古埃及歷史榮光為主題的阿語課結束後，我的筆記本上出現了新的一句話：『埃及已經被人搶了七千年，但她依舊富有。』」
第三條線索是生活在開羅的埃及人的故事。包括在富人區收垃圾的薩伊德和同性戀翻譯員馬努。薩伊德也總是在考古，他從垃圾中找到主人的隱私、秘聞和有價值的物品，從中了解其他國家的人和新世界；而馬努的故事折射了伊斯蘭社會對性、婚姻、生活的獨特看法。他最後逃離了令他窒息的伊斯蘭世界，以中東難民身分來到德國，展開了作為同志的新生活。
本書最讓中文讀者感到會心一笑的地方是，因為何偉曾駐中國多年，並寫下被奉為非虛構寫作經典的《甲骨文》等「中國三部曲」，故他的埃及觀察時時以中國為參照。埃及與中國的共同點不僅僅是在人名上的：人這麼多，名字這麼少。我的電話簿裡塞滿了一個個的穆罕默德和馬哈茂德，一個個的曉梅和秀英。有多少不同的穆罕默德．馬哈茂德曾經端茶給我？以前那些王偉都上哪去了？穆斯林兄弟會的指導局有十八名成員，其中八人的名字不是穆罕默德就是馬哈茂德。總統大選的那個月，我隨隨便便就遇到三個穆罕默德．穆爾西，其中兩人是開計程車的。有一次在阿拜多斯，我訪問了某個名叫穆罕默德．穆罕默德因的人，這名字意思是「兩個穆罕默德」。
也在歷史。何偉觀察到，「仰賴外人」的傳統難免讓外來觀點在埃及歷史上持續下去。所有古埃及的年表與歷史都反映出西方的思維：王族興衰，編了號的王朝來了又去，王國根據古、中、新的順序前進。但這種直線式的歷史卻隱含了「發展」、「改善」、「進步」等對古埃及人來說恐怕不甚重要的其他價值觀。這遮掩了古人真正的想像力──他們更可能想像一種不變不動的永恆國度，而非某種往上發展的軌跡。
何偉的書寫就像一枝挖掘埃及精神的筆。憑藉這些尋常人物在這段悲劇與心痛時刻的生活，憑藉當代埃及與古代埃及之間的關聯，揮灑出對斯土斯民的驚人描繪，讓埃及在「阿拉伯之春」時期不為人知的歷史活了過來，並將他對開羅歲月的回憶與埃及人私密的生活交織在一起。他細膩描繪出一個恐有垮台之虞的國家，最值得關注的內在價值。脆弱的或許只是表面上的政治異動，其內部的人民依舊以剛毅的精神、以宗教的信仰苦撐著；而這股堅強而充滿智慧的人性，便是埃及留存的內在價值，比永恆不變的考古遺跡更加雋永、比動盪激情的革命更顯珍貴。
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「何偉讓阿拉伯之春不為人知的歷史活了過來，以別具匠心的方式，將他對開羅歲月的回憶與埃及百姓私密的生活交織在一起。語見機鋒、富有同情，同時也是該國輝煌歷史與人類奮力追求自由的非凡證言。」──阿南德．戈帕爾，《好人不長命：阿富汗人眼中的美國、塔利班與戰爭》作者
「何偉是同輩人中最會講故事的人。他的寫作美就美在細節與堆疊，在不經意間以親密的方式形成深刻的連結。透過他們，你就能經歷埃及近年來動盪不安的歷史，彷彿身歷其境，彷彿生活其中。」──拉麗莎．麥法克，《溺水的陌生人：不可能的理想主義、極端選擇與助人衝動》作者
「本書是那種你捨不得讀完，也無法忘懷的書。憑藉偉大故事家的眼光，何偉將歷史、報導、回憶錄與尋常百姓的生活百態，為埃及與埃及革命交織出一幅美麗而懾人的肖像。」──本．羅德斯，《世界如其所是：在歐巴馬白宮的回憶錄》作者
「美妙得令人印象深刻，完全不像老派的旅遊著作，而是一家人在革命期間──瘋狂地方的動亂歲月──生活於埃及的歷史紀錄。」──保羅．索魯，《騎乘鐵公雞：搭火車橫越中國》作者

The social sciences have seen a substantial increase in comparative and multi-sited ethnographic projects over the last three decades. Yet, at present, researchers seeking to design comparative field projects have few scholarly works detailing how comparison is conducted in divergent ethnographic approaches. In Beyond the Case, Corey M. Abramson and Neil Gong have gathered together several experts in field research to address these issues by showing how practitioners employing contemporary iterations of ethnographic traditions such as phenomenology, grounded theory, positivism, and interpretivism, use comparison in their works. The contributors connect the long history of comparative (and anti-comparative) ethnographic approaches to their contemporary uses. By honing in on how ethnographers render sites, groups, or cases analytically commensurable and comparable, Beyond the Case offers a new lens for examining the assumptions, payoffs, and potential drawbacks of different forms of comparative ethnography.

Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have effectively retreated from that goal, leaving a gaping moral hole at the center of business education and perhaps in management itself.</p>
Khurana begins in the late nineteenth century, when members of an emerging managerial elite, seeking social status to match the wealth and power they had accrued, began working with major universities to establish graduate business education programs paralleling those for medicine and law. Constituting business as a profession, however, required codifying the knowledge relevant for practitioners and developing enforceable standards of conduct. Khurana, drawing on a rich set of archival material from business schools, foundations, and academic associations, traces how business educators confronted these challenges with varying strategies during the Progressive era and the Depression, the postwar boom years, and recent decades of freewheeling capitalism.</p>
Today, Khurana argues, business schools have largely capitulated in the battle for professionalism and have become merely purveyors of a product, the MBA, with students treated as consumers. Professional and moral ideals that once animated and inspired business schools have been conquered by a perspective that managers are merely agents of shareholders, beholden only to the cause of share profits. According to Khurana, we should not thus be surprised at the rise of corporate malfeasance. The time has come, he concludes, to rejuvenate intellectually and morally the training of our future business leaders.</p>

《乡村社会权力和文化结构的变迁》(1903-1953)收入22篇文章，大致以时间为序，以专题形式，论述了从清末到新中国成立初期，乡村社会各阶层与各时期国家权力的互动、乡村社会意识形态的变化，而以后者更为精彩。 中国农村政治为什么会走到这一步?为什么非走这一步?《乡村社会权力和文化结构的变迁》(1903-1953)正是通过回顾1903—1953年之间的农村社会历史，试图彻底厘清我国农村基层政权和文化结构变迁的内在线索和发展方向。理清这个脉络，对认识百年中国，尤其是大规模推进现代化的近代中国，具有非常重要的意义。

《黄河边的中国》是学者曹锦清1996年5月-11月期间深入河南地区的田野调查，是一部当代中国少见的实证考察著作。该书记录了正在转型中的中原乡村社会，涉及实行土地承包责任制后的农民与土地、与市场、与血缘人情网络、与地方政府关系的变化现状；涉及农村、农民、农业、收支、农民负担、计划生育等诸多方面；涉及日益庞大且凌驾于农村社会之上的地方政府与分散经营的农民为争食有限的农业剩余而引发的各种矛盾，涉及作为一种显示力量的传统文化与现代化努力之间的强大张力。作者在努力描述中原乡村社会事实的同时，着力反映社会转型过程中小农阶层的利益、情绪与态度。

本报告是中国卡车司机调研课题的第三部也是最后一部，重点呈现的主题有三：物流商、装卸工和女性卡车司机。
物流商和装卸工是卡车司机在日常劳动过程中与之密切互动的两个群体。前者不仅包括日益衰落的信息部（“黄牛”），也包括规模不等的物流企业，还包括随着互联网信息技术的发展而兴起并日益壮大的物流平台，其深刻影响着卡车司机的生计；后者则在货物运输的起点和终点两端深度介入卡车司机的劳动过程，他们借助于操弄“寻租游戏”来实现自己在货场上对卡车司机的支配。
女性卡车司机作为卡车司机群体中的职业性别少数，面临着横向与纵向的职业性别隔离，她们通过“去性别化”的工作实践，呈现了打破职业性别隔离的各种策略，提供了探寻职业性别平等的范本。

孤独，21世纪的流行病？
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寻访孤独背后的隐秘历史，重现文明之疾的前世今生
孤独的历史，就是人类文明的演化史
全方位理解孤独的跨学科指南，助你远离情感黑洞的真诚之书
特里·伊格尔顿盛赞，梁永安、李洱、金雯、蔡崇达、文珍、包慧怡一致推荐
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有人说，孤独是21世纪的流行病。我们想方设法摆脱孤独，它却依然如影随形。孤独从何而来？人类注定与孤独相伴吗？
历史学家费伊·邦德·艾伯蒂认为，孤独是一种现代情感。从宗教的衰落到工业革命，再到数字革命以来社交媒体与线上社区的蓬勃兴起，孤独观念的演变史，也是人类文明的发展史。理解孤独如何“被发明”，有助于我们理解为何如今孤独盛行。
《孤独传》融合了文学、哲学、社会学、心理学与经济学等，力图还原孤独的隐秘历史与复杂意涵。本书的每一章聚焦孤独的某种形态，探究孤独与个人和社会、情感和身体之间的关联。在书中，艾伯蒂旁征博引，梳理了19世纪至今的信件与日记、哲学文本、政治论述、医学文献等，研究了包括西尔维娅•普拉斯、维多利亚女王与弗吉尼亚•伍尔夫等人的经历，并分别探寻青少年、独居者、老年人、无家可归者等不同人群的孤独体验。
孤独不仅是一种个体感受，它还与婚恋、医疗、教育、养老、社会福利等议题息息相关。从更宏观的角度，《孤独传》审视现代社会如何被孤独改变，帮助人们学会与孤独共存，以平和澄明之心面对自我与世界。
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【国内外学者、作家推荐】
这是一本非常及时的译作。孤独是当下青年人普遍的生存感觉，它迷漫于物质繁荣的表层之下，给人自由，又让人焦虑。这本书像深海灯塔的一道强光，将宗教时代衰落以来的社会生活形态演变与个人生命历程相互辉映，照射出当代“孤独”错综复杂的成因。如今的中国正经历着世界历史上最壮观的文明变迁，漂流在碎片化、数字化、匿名化大潮中的当代人，读这本书如同进入古希腊阿波罗神殿，赫然看到那永恒的箴言：“认识你自己。”被思考的人生才值得一过，被理解的孤独方能迸发出非凡的创造力。面对孤独，读一读这本文辞畅美的译作，也许你会释然一笑，既珍惜孤独的必然，又打破孤立的局限，让生命更加独立自由，以雨后初晴的心境，融入伟大时代推陈出新的价值变革中。
——梁永安（复旦大学人文学者，文学创作专业硕士生导师）
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正如《孤独传》中所说，孤独，没有反义词。如果有，那必定是人类最需要的东西。如果你一定要找到反义词，那么在你勉强罗列的词语中，你首先感受到的竟然还是狐独。本书通过具体的事例，如此深入地讨论了我们的共同处境。人类，不是百年孤独，是千年孤独。现代社会中，它确实又逐步加深了。现在面临的问题是，我们该怎么办？
——李洱（作家）
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我们如此熟悉“孤独”一词，但不知道它的生命这么短暂。直到19世纪初，人们才开始经常需要表达“因为没有陪伴而心情低落”这个意思，在此之前，我们可能只在漂流孤岛长久没有人说话的鲁滨逊这里才能看到类似的情感。也就是说，19世纪以来的现代人都如同生活在孤岛上一般岌岌可危。这本著作始于这个领悟，始于对当代孤独流行病的描摹，追溯现代早期崇尚独处的传统如何逐渐被孤独感受所取代。我们了解的许多作家和名人都出现在这部孤独传记中，让我们在严谨而平易的学术散文中与一众孤独的灵魂对话，培育起一些抵抗孤独的力量。
——金雯（华东师范大学比较文学教授）
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读罢此书，我们发现孤独不光是真实的匮乏，更是由世俗婚恋观、性别刻板印象、阶级年龄差和社交媒体共同豢养的巨大矛盾体。本书通过诸多案例具体而微地刻画出这样一只怪物的面貌，再试图驯服它并与之共处——事实上，每个人都曾感知过那咻咻靠近的鼻息。
——文珍（作家）
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本书横跨观念史、社会学、文学等领域，深入考察了关于“孤独”的话语自近代以来的形成和嬗变，反思孤独与性别、种族、年龄、环境、政治、经济的关系，是一部详实、生动、有温度的文化史佳作。
——包慧怡（青年作家，复旦大学英文系副教授）
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一部悲悯且广博的著作。
——特里·伊格尔顿（著名文学理论家，文学批评家）
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《孤独传》引人入胜，探索了在我们社会中日益重要的一种体验——孤独。艾伯蒂向人们揭示了孤独者来自何处，归属何方。我向所有读者强烈推荐本书。
——阿龙·本-泽耶夫（以色列哲学家，海法大学前校长）
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艾伯蒂追溯了孤独在19世纪的文化起源，探究孤独如何成为一种公共卫生紧急状态、西方社会的灾难。她令人信服地向我们解释，在这个社群团结稀缺的时代，孤独为何出现，又将导致何种后果。
——芭芭拉·泰勒（伦敦玛丽女王大学教授）
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面对孤独这种时常令人痛苦的情感，艾伯蒂的行文风趣优雅，她讲述了孤独背后的故事，揭开了孤独的神秘面纱。
——芭芭拉·H. 罗森魏因（芝加哥洛约拉大学教授）

编辑推荐：
人类在文化传统里常常将女性称颂为生命之母、国民之母、文明之母。赞美建构了理想的母亲，但只有在客观面对和反思有关母亲的真实历史时，人们才会意识到，母亲需要的不仅仅是颂歌，母亲更需要国家、社会和所有人的真正理解、尊重和帮助，而这一切可以从研究母亲的历史开始。
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本书通过展现近代中国牛奶哺育的兴起过程，探讨其背后折射出的近代中国母亲的内心世界和她们所承受的历史命运。近代中国牛奶哺育的实现是近代中国婴儿哺育方式转变的结果，这一改变帮助女性解放了一部分母职，与传统思想产生碰撞，最终掀起了近代中国的社会性别秩序对母亲角色的重塑。本书作为新妇女史的一部分，不仅为母亲历史补白，更是以妇女作为母亲的眼光探索了近代中国的社会变化。
本书采取论述与经验并重的模式，分析母亲角色和牛奶哺育之余，也会描写母亲的哺育经验。在文字资料之外，也参考了电影、照片、漫画等图像资料，力图整合出较全面的近代中国母婴史。牛奶作为一种西方的物质和饮食文化如何在中国落地生根，也可展现中国现代性的进程。
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这本书的一个特别之处在于，它为如今看来是单向度的过程增加了深度——即“现代女性”的文化崛起和新的经济实力，摒弃旧习俗和美的理想，以及对科学和卫生的偏爱。卢淑樱令人信服地表明，这些与其说是一个简单的世俗变化过程，不如说是一个社会钟摆。我特别欣赏她将乳品生产能力、家庭价格敏感度、消费者愿望和品牌推广等多种因素结合起来的能力，以及将健康和福祉的观念转变为她对母性文化理想的讨论的能力。这本书集中体现了食品研究的新趋势，为进一步的跨学科研究提供了平台。
——杜博思（Thomas David DuBois），北京师范大学教授，加州大学洛杉矶分校历史学博士
理想母亲形象与实际母亲经验的差距反映出，在现代国家构建的过程中两性对母亲角色的分歧意见，客观看待和分析了中国女性在近代历史中的真实处境。卢淑樱的研究结论不仅新颖而且具有重要的学术价值。
——王若颖，华东师范大学历史学博士

秀才是一种俗称，其正式的称谓应为儒学生员。秀才既是一种科名，又是“四民之首”，构成士大夫阶层的下层，且在地方社会扮演颇为重要的角色。本书分上、下两编，对明代秀才的生活世界进行了详尽的考察。上编从学校与科举入手，考察秀才的产生、秀才在地方学校的肄业与考试，以及秀才如何步入仕途，旨在展示秀才在学校的生活世界。下编从社会的视角，考察失意科场或仕进无门的秀才的社会流动及其社会性动作，即他们在社会诸领域的活动，旨在揭示秀才流入社会之后的生活世界。这是一种制度史与社会生活史相结合的研究方法，目的在于考察士大夫下层的生活与制度、社会之间的关系。