A Washington Post reporter’s intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors’ assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin—Paul Ryan’s hometown—and a larger story of the hollowing of the American middle class.
This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills—but it’s not the familiar tale. Most observers record the immediate shock of vanished jobs, but few stay around long enough to notice what happens next, when a community with a can-do spirit tries to pick itself up.
Pulitzer Prize winner Amy Goldstein has spent years immersed in Janesville, Wisconsin where the nation’s oldest operating General Motors plant shut down in the midst of the Great Recession, two days before Christmas of 2008. Now, with intelligence, sympathy, and insight into what connects and divides people in an era of economic upheaval, she makes one of America’s biggest political issues human. Her reporting takes the reader deep into the lives of autoworkers, educators, bankers, politicians, and job re-trainers to show why it’s so hard in the twenty-first century to recreate a healthy, prosperous working class.
For this is not just a Janesville story or a Midwestern story. It’s an American story.

Ethnography is an increasingly important research method in the private sector, yet ethnographic literature continues to focus on an academic audience. Sam Ladner fills the gap by advancing rigorous ethnographic practice that is tailored to corporate settings where colleagues are not steeped in social theory, research time lines may be days rather than months or years, and research sponsors expect actionable outcomes and recommendations. Ladner provides step-by-step guidance at every turn--covering core methods, research design, using the latest mobile and digital technologies, project and client management, ethics, reporting, and translating your findings into business strategies. This book is the perfect resource for private-sector researchers, designers, and managers seeking robust ethnographic tools or academic researchers hoping to conduct research in corporate settings. More information on the book is available at http://www.practicalethnography.com/.

哈佛是美国历史最悠久的大学，是全世界顶尖的高等学府，然而，她那耀眼的光环之下却有着鲜为人知的另一面。本书作者获得杰出教育的梦想终未能在哈佛得到实现，他发现学校里充斥着精英主义、拜金主义、利己主义以及权欲和野心。学生及其父母，甚至校方管理者和教授，都将大学视为通往高收入和精英阶层的踏脚石，而非献身于卓越学术研究的机构。他对《平权法案》、“政治正确”、生源构成、分数制度和课程改革等问题进行了剖析，生动地描绘了现代大学生活的图景: 酗酒、恶作剧、性生活探险、攀爬社会阶梯和钻营求职门径等等。本书是一个年轻哈佛人的自述，真实坦率且诙谐风趣。它是全面了解美国大学生活的第一手资料，是世纪之交美国精英教育的生动纪实和反思，也是美国社会、政治和文化的一个缩影。

In Best Practice Kimberly Chong provides an ethnography of a global management consultancy that has been hired by Chinese companies, including Chinese state-owned enterprises. She shows how consulting emerges as a crucial site for considering how corporate organization, employee performance, business ethics, and labor have been transformed under financialization. To date financialization has been examined using top-down approaches that portray the rise of finance as a new logic of economic accumulation. Best Practice, by contrast, focuses on the everyday practices and narratives through which companies become financialized. Effective management consultants, Chong finds, incorporate local workplace norms and assert their expertise in the particular terms of China's national project of modernization, while at the same time framing their work in terms of global “best practices.” Providing insight into how global management consultancies refashion Chinese state-owned enterprises in preparation for stock market flotation, Chong demonstrates both the dynamic, fragmented character of financialization and the ways in which Chinese state capitalism enables this process.

Culture, cultural difference, and cultural conflict always surround us. Cultural sociologists aim to understand their role across all aspects of social life by examining processes of meaning-making.
In this crisp and accessible book, Lyn Spillman demonstrates many of the conceptual tools cultural sociologists use to explore how people make meaning. Drawing on vivid examples, she offers a compelling analytical framework within which to view the entire field of cultural sociology. In each chapter, she introduces a different angle of vision, with distinct but compatible approaches for explaining culture and its role in social life: analyzing symbolic forms, meaning-making in interaction, and organized production.
This book both offers a concise answer to the question of what cultural sociology is and provides an overview of the fundamental approaches in the field.

本书应该说是新文化史和微观史取向在中国史研究上的一个实践，理解茶馆的社会、文化、政治角色，能够帮助我们不仅从微观角度了解成都，而且对认识20世纪中国城市、城市社会以及与中国政治之关系都将有所裨益。微观历史研究取向可以引导我们进入城市的内部，茶馆提供了研究下层民众活动的一个重要空间，在那里我们可以仔细考察他们日常生活的细节，即使这些细节起来是多么地微不足道。

Includes never-published, first-hand accounts of how a massive law enforcement agency leverages big data technologies to expand surveillance in the name of objective, predictive policing
Provides a new understanding of the scope of police surveillance in today's digital world
Argues that the use of big data and algorithms by police widens the scope of the criminal justice system, results in massively increased surveillance, and reinforces stereotypes and discrimination
Reveals the collaboration between public law enforcement, private data brokers, and technology companies

《社会科学的兴起：1642—1792》主要对17-18世纪西方社会科学兴起的历史过程进行了回顾与分析，重点关注经济学、心理学、政治学科及哲学历史学的发展进程。本书考察了社会科学的多重渊源，探索了先在的社会、政治和科学条件，以及利益和信仰是通过什么方式来塑造社会科学的多种传统的；分析了社会科学出现后所形成的这些传统，如何实现了对孵化它们的知识和社会语境的重建。
本书认为，早期关于社会的研究传统像有生命一样自主地发展，虽然它们几乎都开始于一些具有很强规划性的议题，但这些传统发展为社会科学的岛屿却往往与其创始者的构想相反。可以说，社会科学既像一面镜子，折射出孕育它的文化；又像一盏明灯，引领了文化前行。

所有的父母都希望自己的孩子能够得到最好的照顾和教育，然而，父母能够给予自己深爱的孩子们的资源、天赋、机会却不尽相同。
本书以内容丰富的故事情节和极富洞察力的生活细节，考察了贫困家庭、工人阶级家庭、中产阶级家庭孩子在学校和在家里的生活，从而确认了，父母的社会地位会以一种在很大程度上是无形的但又是强有力的方式冲击着孩子的人生经历，并标识出了不平等的社会地位是如何影响教育方式的。

Getting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals how―and why―disadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges, and explains what schools can do differently if these students are to thrive.
The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors―and their coffers―to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to admit these students? In The Privileged Poor, Anthony Jack reveals that the struggles of less privileged students continue long after they’ve arrived on campus. Admission, they quickly learn, is not the same as acceptance. This bracing and necessary book documents how university policies and cultures can exacerbate preexisting inequalities and reveals why these policies hit some students harder than others.
Despite their lofty aspirations, top colleges hedge their bets by recruiting their new diversity largely from the same old sources, admitting scores of lower-income black, Latino, and white undergraduates from elite private high schools like Exeter and Andover. These students approach campus life very differently from students who attended local, and typically troubled, public high schools and are often left to flounder on their own. Drawing on interviews with dozens of undergraduates at one of America’s most famous colleges and on his own experiences as one of the privileged poor, Jack describes the lives poor students bring with them and shows how powerfully background affects their chances of success.
If we truly want our top colleges to be engines of opportunity, university policies and campus cultures will have to change. Jack provides concrete advice to help schools reduce these hidden disadvantages―advice we cannot afford to ignore.

几乎所有人类学教科书都会谈及石器时代生活的艰辛，人们相信生活在原始社会的狩猎者都食不果腹，难以维生，饥魂饿鬼如影随形。然而著名人类学家马歇尔·萨林斯却在这部著作中辨析并破除了这一成见。当我们跟随他重新发现石器时代的生活时，就会发现那实际是一个丰裕的社会，人们能够满足自己的需求，还组织起一种受亲属关系和社会权力等级影响的家户生产模式。不仅在生产方面，原始社会的交换活动也和宇宙神话、社会规范等价值体系紧密结合在一起。看看萨林斯给出的斐济、特洛布里恩德群岛、夏威夷等原始社会有趣而又广博的材料，或许我们就会理解他所说的：资本主义并不是人类历史上与生俱来的经济方式，而人类社会更普遍的经济方式也不是资本主义。

Ten Thousand Things explores the many forms of life, or, in ancient Chinese parlance "the ten thousand things" that life is and is becoming, in contemporary Beijing and beyond. Coauthored by an American anthropologist and a Chinese philosopher, the book examines the myriad ways contemporary residents of Beijing understand and nurture the good life, practice the embodied arts of everyday well-being, and in doing so draw on cultural resources ranging from ancient metaphysics to modern media.
Farquhar and Zhang show that there are many activities that nurture life: practicing meditative martial arts among friends in a public park; jogging, swimming, and walking backward; dancing, singing, and keeping pet birds; connoisseurship of tea, wine, and food; and spiritual disciplines ranging from meditation to learning a foreign language. As ancient life-nurturing texts teach, the cultural practices that produce particular forms of life are generative in ten thousand ways: they "give birth to life and transform the transformations." This book attends to the patterns of city life, listens to homely advice on how to live, and interprets the great tradition of medicine and metaphysics. In the process, a manifold culture of the urban Chinese everyday emerges. The lives nurtured, gathered, and witnessed here are global and local, embodied and discursive, ecological and cosmic, civic and individual. The elements of any particular life -- as long as it lasts, and with some skill and determination -- can be gathered, centered, and harmonized with the way things spontaneously go. The result, everyone says, is pleasure.

A story of courage and risk-taking, "House on Fire" tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of human history, was completely eradicated in a spectacular triumph of medicine and public health. Part autobiography, part mystery, the story is told by a man who was one of the architects of a radical vaccination scheme that became a key strategy in ending the horrible disease when it was finally contained in India. In "House on Fire", William H. Foege describes his own experiences in public health and details the remarkable program that involved people from countries around the world in pursuit of a single objective - eliminating smallpox forever. Rich with the details of everyday life, as well as a few adventures, "House on Fire" gives an intimate sense of what it is like to work on the ground in some of the world's most impoverished countries - and tells what it is like to contribute to programs that really do change the world.

本书是对被现代研究者称为“麻风病”的这种令人恐怖、被污名化的疾病所做的细致研究与探讨。首先从包括该疾病最初的描述在内的帝制时代的典型记录入手，进而追踪了该疾病与中国社会、政治领域的关系（传染理论促动地区乃至全国性隔离病人的努力）；宗教传统（佛教和道教将病人患病归于救赎），和不断演化的医学话语（中国医生已对麻风病病因争论了数个世纪）。麻风病甚至突然出现于中国民间故事中，将麻风病的传染扩散归咎于同不守妇道女子的性接触。
作者还将麻风病本身的历史置于殖民主义、种族政治学以及“帝国危机”的全球性大背景中来加以考察。19世纪末的全球性瘟疫大流行似乎正验证了西方人对于黄祸的恐慌，他们认为中国移民严重威胁到了公共健康。因此，控制疫病（如果无法消除的话），就成为了贯穿晚清帝国，国民政府乃至中华人民共和国实现现代化、建立民族国家目标的一项中心任务。
消灭麻风病的魔咒是实现“卫生的现代性”和祛除与疾病相联系的文化经济落后的第一步。该著最后将中国关于麻风病的历史经验和公共卫生的大历史以及西方医学权力体制联系起来，从中探索中国对待疾病的中西视野中的文化和政治含义。

第一代唐人街教父的传奇经历
20世纪初美国华人黑帮四次大规模火并全纪录
◎ 编辑推荐
☆关于19世纪末20世纪初，北美东部、中西部华人堂口间四次大规模堂斗、时断时续的对峙、数不胜数的摩擦、大大小小的死伤，连同企望和平的谈判以及由此缔结和约的故事
☆关于由文化差异，由误解、无知、偏见引发冲突的故事
☆关于一群固执的人为有形的金钱、财产，无形的忠诚、面子以命相搏的故事
☆关于许多有责任、有决心阻止他们的警察局局长、警探以及普通警察的故事
◎ 内容简介
本书讲述了19世纪末20世纪初，纽约唐人街各堂口为争夺赌场、鸦片馆、妓院的控制权而爆发的厮杀混战，时间长达30余年。作者苏思纲充分利用新闻报道、官方统计数据、庭审记录等一手资料，精彩再现了纽约四次大规模堂斗的全过程。他生动描述了早期纽约华人移民艰难求生的痛苦经历，客观分析了堂斗屡禁不止、愈演愈烈的原因，揭示了华人在美国社会遭受的不公、屈辱和歧视。
◎ 媒体及名人推荐
纽约犯罪史上鲜为人知的一章。
——《纽约时报》
作者带我们漫步在最黑暗年代的唐人街。
——《纽约客》
本书是犯罪纪实作品的绝佳范例。它既是一部扎实的社会史著作，也是一个关于谋杀与复仇的精彩故事。
——《出版人周刊》
早期纽约唐人街被不公正地描述为神秘东方人聚居的“黄祸”之地。然而，苏思纲通过勤奋而熟练地搜寻证据，揭示了真相。他为读者讲述了一个关于唐人街堂口的扣人心弦的故事，讲述了他们因为赌博、鸦片和其他恶行而进行的内斗仇杀。他通过《堂斗》再现了一个移民群体所经历的鲜为人知的艰辛和磨难。
——保罗•法兰奇，畅销书《午夜北平》作者
苏思纲娴熟地将学者和侦探的技巧融入叙事当中，他笔下的故事无异于一部出色的探案小说。他中文流利，能够熟练阅读中文原始文献，因此能够分清传说和残酷现实。
——李闰屏，美国华人历史学会常务理事长

From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and their consequences.
Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After a million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer.
There are millions of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs.
Graeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. Bullshit Jobs gives individuals, corporations, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation.

1560年的夏日，如果不是有一个装了一条木腿的人闯进法庭，那个真名叫阿诺·迪蒂尔的精明的农民，几乎就说服了图卢兹高等法院的法官们，他就是马丁·盖尔，拥有马丁·盖尔的身份、财产和妻子。当马丁·盖尔现身，一切都改变了。四百多年来，这个传奇故事一再被讲述，甚至被搬上舞台和银幕。娜塔莉·戴维斯在担任同名法国电影的历史顾问之后，又进一步去探求历史真相，凭借她历史学家的专业训练和栩栩如生的叙述技巧，写下了这本新文化史学的经典之作。

“情感社会学”研究领域重要著作
《纽约时报》年度最有影响力的社会学著作之一
荣获“米尔斯奖”“查尔斯·库利奖”等社会学奖项
情感变为一种资本要素，这是现代服务业的秘密之一。19世纪的工厂童工提供劳力，20世纪的空乘人员伪装感情；童工们的身体是机器生产的工具，空乘人员的情感也是可批量生产的商品。
作者以20世纪美国航空服务业为例，将乘务员与收账员作为研究对象，展示现代商业公司如何操纵、抑制雇员真实的情感表达，为我们揭露出这个人类情感日益商业化的真实世界。
作者是杰出的美国当代社会学家，本书是其在情感社会学领域的奠基之作，其理论建基于马克思、弗洛伊德、斯坦尼斯拉夫斯基、米尔斯、欧文·戈夫曼的学说之上，从社会学、心理学、表演理论等多角度展开论述，旨在深入探讨“情感劳动”这一社会问题。
对于“情感劳动”具有洞察力的研究。
——《纽约时报书评》
具有价值的研究，揭示那些从事将情感视作商品的职业人员付出的个人且隐蔽的代价。
——《圣荷西水星报》

Sex, smoking, and social stratification are three very different social phenomena. And yet, argues sociologist Randall Collins, they and much else in our social lives are driven by a common force: interaction rituals. "Interaction Ritual Chains" is a major work of sociological theory that attempts to develop a "radical microsociology." It proposes that successful rituals create symbols of group membership and pump up individuals with emotional energy, while failed rituals drain emotional energy. Each person flows from situation to situation, drawn to those interactions where their cultural capital gives them the best emotional energy payoff. Thinking, too, can be explained by the internalization of conversations within the flow of situations; individual selves are thoroughly and continually social, constructed from the outside in.The first half of "Interaction Ritual Chains" is based on the classic analyses of Durkheim, Mead, and Goffman and draws on micro-sociological research on conversation, bodily rhythms, emotions, and intellectual creativity. The second half discusses how such activities as sex, smoking, and social stratification are shaped by interaction ritual chains. For example, the book addresses the emotional and symbolic nature of sexual exchanges of all sorts - from hand-holding to masturbation to sexual relationships with prostitutes - while describing the interaction rituals they involve. This book will appeal not only to psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists, but to those in fields as diverse as human sexuality, religious studies, and literary theory.

本书是对中国实行改革开放前的社会主义新传统的一项研究。作者通过本书力图剖析中国乡村社会在改革开放前是如何去塑造新人的，以此重新理解中国建立社会伦理新秩序的努力以及这一努力所产生的复杂效果，进而深入理解中国社会在1978年后实行改革开放的历史必然性。