自改革开放以来，社会主义市场经济和人口流动等因素冲击着农村社会的方方面面，使传统的血缘–地缘关系，熟人社会，“人情”“面子”等观念均发生了极大的变化，形塑了我国农村的新面貌和新常态。作者以实地走访调查、研究，结合观察与发现，深入思考，重新审视过去学者所提出的种种有关中国农村研究的论点，并试图就目前农村产生的现实治理问题予以探索和解答。

This study of Durkheim seeks to help the reader to achieve a historical understanding of his ideas and to form critical judgments about their value. To some extent these tow aims are contradictory. On the one hand, one seeks to understand: what did Durkheim really mean, how did he see the world, how did his ideas related to one another and how did they develop, how did they related to their biographical and historical context, how were they received, what influence did they have and to what criticism were they subjected, what was it like not to make certain distinctions, not to see certain errors, of fact or of logic, not to know what has subsequently become known?
On the other hand, one seeks to assess: how valuable and how valid are the ideas, to what fruitful insights and explanations do they lead, how do they stand up to analysis and to the evidence, what is their present value? Yet it seems that it is only by inducing oneself not to see and only by seeing them that one can make a critical assessment. The only solution is to pursue both aims—seeing and not seeing—simultaneously. More particularly, this book has the primary object of achieving that sympathetic understanding without which no adequate critical assessment is possible. It is a study in intellectual history which is also intended as a contribution to sociological theory.

本书从自然环境、人口状况、农村经济发展、区域贸易与市场网络、传统手工业与近代工业、统治结构与地方秩序、教育、社会组织、社会生活及传统文化等多个角度，对1644—1911年间以四川为中心的长江上游区域的社会、文化、政治、经济等情况，作了系统分析研究。全书综合运用社会学、计量学、都市学、心理学等多种方法对广大区域进行长时段、整体性的研究，被学术界视为具有开创性、突破性的中国社会史研究的经典著作。本次再版，作者根据近年来历史学研究的进展，删繁就简，使全书内容更加凝练、清晰。

The digital music revolution and the rise of piracy cultures has transformed the music world as we knew it. Digital Music Distribution aims to go beyond the polarized and reductive perception of ‘piracy wars’ to offer a broader and richer understanding of the paradoxes inherent in new forms of distribution. Covering both production and consumption perspectives, Spilker analyses the changes and regulatory issues through original case studies, looking at how digital music distribution has both changed and been changed by the cultural practices and politicking of ordinary youth, their parents, music counter cultures, artists and bands, record companies, technology developers, mass media and regulatory authorities.
Exploring the fundamental change in distribution, Spilker investigates paradoxes such as:
The criminalization of file-sharing leading not to conflicts, but to increased collaboration between youths and their parents;
Why the circulation of cultural content, extremely damaging for its producers, has instead been advantageous for the manufacturers of recording equipment;
Why more artists are recording in professional sound studios, despite the proliferation of good quality equipment for home recording;
Why mass media, hit by many of the same challenges as the music industry, has been so critical of the way it has tackled these challenges.
A rare and timely volume looking at the changes induced by the digitalization of music distribution, Digital Music Distribution will appeal to undergraduate students and policy makers interested in fields such as Media Studies, Digital Media, Music Business, Sociology and Cultural Studies.

天上下雨地上滑，
各人摔倒各人爬。
亲戚朋友扶一把，
酒换酒来茶换茶。
美国亚洲学会列文森奖得主 文化人类学教授 阎云翔 成名之作
生育、婚礼、拜寿、丧礼；定情、求助、付酬、拍马
世界上所有的社会都逃不开礼物交换。
从每个家庭都有的“礼单”出发，
一路洞察“人情”与“面子”，处于关系网络中的中国社会。
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《礼物的流动》是阎云翔根据其博士论文而改写的专著，主要关注了人类学领域中一个十分经典的研究问题，即礼物交换。作者在黑龙江省一个农村生活了七年，并为撰写本书又两度回访。通过参与观察、深描等人类学方法，关注村民在日常生活中的礼物交换及其文化意义。阎云翔在更新了传统人类学关于该问题的经典解释理论的同时，也揭示了中国传统社会中“非制度化”的特点，并探讨了农村社会的社会结构。

本书作者迈克尔•诺斯（Michael North）是德国著名历史学家，本书共分七大部分——荷兰绘画的历史阐释、荷兰的经济状况分析、荷兰的社会状况分析、艺术家出身及社会地位、赞助制度与艺术品市场、艺术品收藏与收藏家、结论。书中通过检视艺术家的社会出身勾勒出荷兰的画家培训体制，以及它如何促进了艺术市场的繁荣。而对市民财产目录清单的研究，也能够帮助我们了解当时荷兰画家与收藏家之间的生动纽带。作者还详细分析了荷兰各主要城市的艺术家阶层及其社会流动性，并围绕相关论题描述了发生在画家、手工艺者、商人、消费者和收藏家身上的精彩故事。本书的译介出版，可以更好地促进将中国路径和全球视野结合起来，深度介入西方艺术史研究，提升文化软实力、学术话语权以及影响力，并且为中国当代艺术创作与艺术市场发展提供有益的启示。
编辑推荐：
本书从艺术社会学即审美经济学的视角，综合运用宏观社会学、微观社会学、经济学等研究方法来考察“现代性的完成”的重要产物——黄金时代的荷兰绘画及其接受史。推重全球化商业贸易的荷兰共和国，在黄金时代的国际经济体系中树立了足够的威信，也促进了其艺术创作的繁荣。同时，荷兰近代化城镇的快速发展，促进了大众审美品位的变化。荷兰画家为了适应新的市场，竞相创新艺术生产与传播方式来契合社会大众的消费心理。各产业部门的效益增长，使得艺术品需求不断上升。当时处于中低阶层的人如果缺乏足够的金钱通过联姻来达成社会进阶，也可以选择加入远洋舰队或者从事艺术行当来白手起家。经济部门和金融机构的发达，为艺术产业提供了良好的环境。阅读本书，可以在亲密接触荷兰黄金时代社会万象的同时，了悟惬意的世俗生活即是幸福的审美生活。
德国《历史杂志》（Historische Zeitschrift）：
虽然西蒙 ·沙玛（哥伦比亚大学艺术史学者、英国历史学家、BBC纪录片《文明的轨迹2》主讲人、《纽约客》文艺评论员、《金融时报》特约编辑）的畅销书《财富的窘境——黄金时代荷兰文明的一种解释》（1987），以及斯维特兰娜 ·阿尔珀斯（加州大学伯克利分校艺术史系教授、欧美新艺术史学者）那部雄心勃勃之作《描述的艺术——十七世纪的荷兰绘画》（1983），已经成功地激起了我们对于荷兰文化史的好奇心。但是对于今天有志于从事艺术实践或者钻研艺术史的师生来说，迈克尔 ·诺斯的这部《荷兰黄金时代的艺术与商业》仍然具有极大的诱惑力，我敢肯定它将吸引无数的读者一睹为快。

台灣都市夾縫中的街廟觀察，適應社會變遷的常民空間圖鑑
無神不拜、無所不在、無孔不入、無奇不有
市場廟、地下廟、電話亭廟、打帶跑廟……
從36+1款台灣廟怪奇典型，窺見108種適應都市變遷的韌性與變形
有
廟
稱作
寄生之廟
大多沒沒無聞
沒有建築師的建築
隱身街頭巷尾，你家我家之間
是最常民的建築，直接效率經濟是最大特色
長時間在都市的水泥叢林自然繁殖，有機演化的生物
當慾望能以空間呈現時，是台灣人真正想要也需要的有形產物
這些廟，多處在荒謬離譜基地，是不刻意設計的設計
這些廟，展現了台灣人合法或不合法適應環境的韌性
這些廟，生活環境中我們習以為常，或選擇視而不見
這些廟，扮演著某年代的台灣人、社區與鄰里的核心
這些廟，是宗教場所，亦扮演著社區生活的集會場所
這些廟，視整個都市為宿主，寄生台灣的都市環境中
這些廟，拓印台灣社會都市的縮影，現實生活的反映
極少符合現代建築美學標準，卻絕對切中都市供需之必然
並非模範般的文化大廟，卻最能赤裸地反映台灣都市的獨特性
在都市夾縫求生中的廟，是台灣城市有別於世界其他地方最顯而易見的與眾不同，這些廟在日益變遷的都市環境下越顯越小，收縮到只占據了最極限的都市空間：
在橋下、在圓環中、在屋頂上、跨越街道……
小到一個箱子、大至一棟高樓，甚至有的長出輪子……
從起心動念、實際田調行動到歸納整理研究，歷時七年多，成員有建築師、學生、台灣人、外國人……的WillipodiA都市研究團隊，觀察、記錄、蒐集了「廟與都市的結合關係」108種類型，書中選介36+1種典型，呈現台灣微型宗教空間的多元寄生現象。

Growing Out of the Plan is a comprehensive study of China's economic reforms, from their beginnings at the end of 1978 through the completion of many of the initial reform measures during 1993. The book focuses on industry and macroeconomic policy, using these to describe reform strategy in its entirety. In addition to being a thorough and reliable guide to the specifics of Chinese economic reform, the book highlights the distinctive features of Chinese reforms that differentiate them from those in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The author argues that the success of the reforms is not the result of carefully plotted strategy, although in hindsight the reforms seem to have added up to a coherent package. Perhaps most important in its connotations for other changing economies, the Chinese experience shows that gradual change of a command economy is feasible.

本书把1978~1992年的经济改革定义为“探路之役”。所谓探路，包含两层意义：一是对改革目标的探索，一是对改革路径的探索。从国际经验看，社会主义国家从计划经济向市场经济成功转轨，是一个小概率事件。中国改革何以能够突破种种约束，成功地越过市场化的临界点，而且保持了经济高增长？本书作者通过对历史进程的细致梳理，作出了自己的解释。

The state is central to social scientific and historical inquiry today, reflecting its importance in domestic and international affairs. States kill, coerce, fight, torture, and incarcerate, yet they also nurture, protect, educate, redistribute, and invest. It is precisely because of the complexity and wide-ranging impacts of states that research on them has proliferated and diversified. Yet, too many scholars inhabit separate academic silos, and theorizing of states has become dispersed and disjointed. This book aims to bridge some of the many gaps between scholarly endeavors, bringing together scholars from a diverse array of disciplines and perspectives who study states and empires. The book offers not only a sample of cutting-edge research that can serve as models and directions for future work, but an original conceptualization and theorization of states, their origins and evolution, and their effects.

我写《文化县》的初衷是打算向盅以外的读者介绍中国引人注目的教育历史。现在，中译本就要出版了，它将使以学生或以教师身份亲身经历过我所讨论的那些历史变迁的中国读者，有机会了解一个外国人是如何阐释中国历史的这一重要组成部分的。对此，我感到非常高兴。
从表面上看，现代教育在世界各国都有一些非常相似的经验。在任何一个国家，都是儿童们坐在教室里，学习阅读、写作和算术，他们也要接受有关本国和世界历史、地理知识的教育。通过这一教育过程，他们被塑造成国家的公民。然而，尽管有这么多的相似之处，但以国与国之间，公民社会化的具体方式还是有着相当大的不同；即便是在文化比较相似的欧洲国家内部，你也可以在各国的教育制度，特别是所谓的学校“精神”之间，发现它们彼此的显著着异。所以说，研究教育也就是研究深深地植根于教育背后的文化规范和习俗。
参观中国的教室并与众多中国人谈论他们的求学经历，是我深入了解中国并探讨中国人思考自己过去、现在和未来的方式的一次绝佳机会。当然，可能有些中国读者会不同意我书中的某些观点，但我希望他们能够看到，我试图尽可能地如实反映邹平学生是如何经历20世纪这些教育变革的。同时，我也特别欢迎能够得到来自中国读者的批评指正。

在这部内容丰富且极具原创性的著作中，詹姆斯•C. 斯科特分析了在各个领域中，由国家主导的大型规划项目遭遇失败的例子。斯科特指出，当国家权力坚持推行简单的规划方案，而这种方案对复杂且不易理解之相关性尤显粗暴时，中央主控的社会规划项目就很难取得成功。进而言之，针对社会组织的设计要想获得成功，必须依靠这样一种认知：即地方知识和实践知识与常规知识和技术知识同等重要。作者列举了令人信服的例证，并质疑了“发展理论”，同时反对独裁权力主导的规划项目对国民价值、愿望和目标的忽视。“社会的清晰性提供了大规模开展社会工程的可行性，极端的现代主义意识形态提供了愿望，独裁的国家有实现这一愿望的决定权和行动能力，软弱的公民社会则提供了等级社会作为其实现的基础。”在作者看来，上述四个因素的结合，往往使得悲剧难以避免。

这是一本文化研究中国化的实验性著作。本书结合人类学、社会学、心理学、哲学等研究方法，对中国乡土文化结构、乡村经验及其微观权力形态进行了全面分析，通过对时间、空间、器物、实践的符号分析，细腻地叙述了宏观权力结构在乡村经验各个层面的相互转化过程。通过对乡土社会的“事实呈现”，该书进一步将分析引向农民心理学、乡土哲学和精神现象学领域，可视为一部乡土文化“小百科”。该书将理论逻辑融会于文学叙述之中，具有很强的可读性。

In The Philosophy of Money, Georg Simmel presents a remarkable and
wide-ranging discussion of the social, psychological and philosophical
aspects of the money economy. He provides us with a detailed analysis of
the circulation and exchange of commodities, while considering the
relationship of money to the human personality, the position of women,
individual freedom and other key areas of human existence. Through this
he creates a series of brilliant insights into the forms which social
relationships take and gives us a comprehensive analysis of the
interrelationships between the most diverse and seemingly unconnected
social and cultural phenomena.
This pioneering work by Georg Simmel has increasingly been recognized
as an important and influential economic and sociological text. This edition
contains a substantial new preface by David Frisby, in which he
reconsiders Simmel’s ideas and theories in the light of historical and
contemporary concerns.

The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated processes of circulation, the essays illuminate the ways in which people find value in things and things give value to social relations. By looking at things as if they lead social lives, the authors provide a new way to understand how value is externalized and sought after. They discuss a wide range of goods - from oriental carpets to human relics - to reveal both that the underlying logic of everyday economic life is not so far removed from that which explains the circulation of exotica, and that the distinction between contemporary economies and simpler, more distant ones is less obvious than has been thought. As the editor argues in his introduction, beneath the seeming infinitude of human wants, and the apparent multiplicity of material forms, there in fact lie complex, but specific, social and political mechanisms that regulate taste, trade, and desire.
Containing contributions from American and British social anthropologists and historians, the volume bridges the disciplines of social history, cultural anthropology, and economics, and marks a major step in our understanding of the cultural basis of economic life and the sociology of culture. It will appeal to anthropologists, social historians, economists. archaeologists, and historians of art.

The book considers the past accomplishments and future agendas of comparative-historical research in the social sciences. It defines the distinctiveness of this type of research and explores its strengths in explaining important outcomes (e.g. revolutions, social provision, democracy) in the world. It includes sections on substantive research accomplishments, methodology, and theory, and features essays by some of the most important political scientists and sociologists currently working.
This review of the accomplishments and future agendas of comparative historical research in the social sciences explores its strengths in explaining important worldwide outcomes (e.g., revolutions, social provision, democracy). It includes sections on substantive research accomplishments, methodology, and theory, and features essays by some of the most important political scientists and sociologists currently working.

The sexual revolution: an evocative term, but what meaning can be given to it today? How does "sexuality" come into being, and what connections does it have with the changes that have affected personal life more generally? In answering these questions, the author disputes many of the dominant interpretations of the role of sexuality in modern culture. The author suggests that the revolutionary changes in which sexuality has become cauth up are more long-term than generally conceded. He sees them as intrinsic to the development of modern societies as a whole and to the broad characteristics of that development. Sexuality as we know it today is a creation of modernity, a terrain upon which the contradictory tendencies of modern social life play themselves out in full. Emancipation and oppression, opportunity and risk--these have become a part of a heady mix that irresistably ties our individual lives to global outcomes and the transformation of intimacy. We live today in a social order in which, for the first time in histroy, women are becoming equal to men--or at least have lodged a claim to such equality as their right. The author does not attempt to analyze the gender inequalities that persist in the economic or political domains, but instead concentrates on a more hisdden personal area in which women--ordinary women, in the course of their day-to-day lives, quite apart from any political agenda--have pioneered changes of greate, and generalizable, importance. These changes essentially concern an exploration of the potentialities of the "pure relationship," a relaitonship that presumes sexual and emotional equality, and is explosive in its connotations for pre-existing relations of power. The author analyzes the emergence of what he calls plastic sexuality--sexuality freed from its intrinsic relation to reproduction--in terms of the emotional emancipation implicit in the pure relationship, as well as women's claim to sexual pleasure. Plastic sexuality is decentered sexuality, freed from both reproduction and subservience to a fixed object. It can be molded as a trait of personality, and thus become bound up with the reflexivity of the self. Premised on plastic sexuality, the pure relationship is not exclusively heterosexual; it is neutral in terms of sexual orientation. The author speculates that the transformaion of intimacy might be a subversive influence on modern institutions as a whole, for a social world in which the dominant ideal was to achieve intinsic rewards from the company of others might be vastly different from that which we know at the present.

1949年以来，中国高等教育领域出现了一场革命。
新中国高等教育生源开始多样化，以往为社会上层子女所垄断的状况被打破，工农等阶层的子女逐渐占据相当大的比重。基础教育的推广、统一高考招生制度的建立以及重点中学等制度安排共同推动了这一变革的出现。这场革命虽然不及社会政治革命那样引人瞩目，却同样意义深远。受教育者本人在实现命运转变的同时，也改变了国家和地方精英的身份构成，传统社会中封闭的阶层关系和结构被彻底改变了。
本书利用1949—2002年间北京大学和苏州大学学生学籍卡片的翔实材料，力图将这一革命及其成就呈现出来，为中国高等教育改革与发展提供借鉴。

Students and the public routinely consult various published college rankings to assess the quality of colleges and universities and easily compare different schools. However, many institutions have responded to the rankings in ways that benefit neither the schools nor their students. In Engines of Anxiety, sociologists Wendy Espeland and Michael Sauder delve deep into the mechanisms of law school rankings, which have become a top priority within legal education. Based on a wealth of observational data and over 200 in-depth interviews with law students, university deans, and other administrators, they show how the scramble for high rankings has affected the missions and practices of many law schools.
Engines of Anxiety tracks how rankings, such as those published annually by the U.S. News & World Report, permeate every aspect of legal education, beginning with the admissions process. The authors find that prospective law students not only rely heavily on such rankings to evaluate school quality, but also internalize rankings as expressions of their own abilities and flaws. For example, they often view rejections from “first-tier” schools as a sign of personal failure. The rankings also affect the decisions of admissions officers, who try to balance admitting diverse classes with preserving the school’s ranking, which is dependent on factors such as the median LSAT score of the entering class. Espeland and Sauder find that law schools face pressure to admit applicants with high test scores over lower-scoring candidates who possess other favorable credentials.
Engines of Anxiety also reveals how rankings have influenced law schools’ career service departments. Because graduates’ job placements play a major role in the rankings, many institutions have shifted their career-services resources toward tracking placements, and away from counseling and network-building. In turn, law firms regularly use school rankings to recruit and screen job candidates, perpetuating a cycle in which highly ranked schools enjoy increasing prestige. As a result, the rankings create and reinforce a rigid hierarchy that penalizes lower-tier schools that do not conform to the restrictive standards used in the rankings. The authors show that as law schools compete to improve their rankings, their programs become more homogenized and less accessible to non-traditional students.
The ranking system is considered a valuable resource for learning about more than 200 law schools. Yet, Engines of Anxiety shows that the drive to increase a school’s rankings has negative consequences for students, educators, and administrators and has implications for all educational programs that are quantified in similar ways.