本书运用文化人类学的方法，通过对英美两国众多学术机构中的大量学者的深入访谈和大量经典文献的辨析，对学科知识与学术文化之间的关系做了细致而富有启示性的探究。 本书从文化的视角考察高等教育的“学术圈”，别开生面地探讨了学科文化的运作机制，揭示了“学术部落”和“学科领地”的众多“奥秘”，视角新颖，分析透彻，结论发人深省。 本书是高等教育研究领域的一部力作，多年来被知识社会学、高等教育组织与管理等领域的学者广泛引用。

本书所涉及的内容不只限于历史学科的范围，它触及到政治、经济、文化、社会及心理学等各个层面。可以把它看成是发展社会学的著作。

《社会统计分析与数据处理技术:STATA软件的应用》采取循序渐进的原则，由浅入深，由易到难。在遵循国外相关教材的体例的基础上，也考虑到国内学习者目前定量研究的数据处理能力，重点放在数据的处理上。与一般的Stata的使用手册不同，《社会统计分析与数据处理技术:STATA软件的应用》除介绍Stata的一些具体使用方法外，在一些章节还介绍相关的统计原理、数据处理的思路和缘由、研究方法等。

《社会研究方法基础》首先阐明了社会研究的文献准备工作、合伦理性、方法论立场等基础性议题，并通过实例勾画出了社会研究的基本轮廓。然后以研究设计、资料收集、资料分析、结果呈现等研究程序与环节为线索，从定性研究和定量研究两个维度，对社会研究的基本方法和技术进行了系统的介绍。《社会研究方法基础》辩证地阐明了定性研究与定量研究的关系，对定性研究方法特别是定性资料分析方法的介绍比较全面和深入，使其占据了与定量研究一样的分量，凸显了当代社会研究融定量方法与定性方法为一体的方法论取向。在电脑辅助资料分析方面，既介绍了定量资料分析软件SPSS的具体使用方法，也讲解了定性资料管理与分析软件Nvivo及N6的操作流程。《社会研究方法基础》内容丰富，繁简适当，逻辑清晰，可操作性强，适合用作高等学校社会研究方法课程的教材，也可用作开展实际社会研究工作的指南和参考。

农村社会学（第二版），ISBN：9787300089386，作者：刘豪兴 编

Book Description： This book provides a rare glimpse into how the Chinese urban population is experiencing the rapid shift from a planned to a market economy. Using a dozen recent national surveys, the authors give voice to workers, civil servants, intellectuals, and women, who report their grievances and joys at home, at work, and in the public sphere. With fresh data on emerging patterns of economic inequality, labor-management relations, popular grievances, political participation, and gender inequality, the book analyzes how the shifting social contract influences ordinary people's lives and China's future direction. Book Review: "Tang and Parish carefully mine a mountain of survey evidence to evaluate a wide range of arguments and ideas about the social consequences of China's reforms, and more generally, the transition from a planned to a market economy. By placing China unwaveringly in comparative perspective, their readable narrative offers some surprising new perspectives on such matters as social inequality, bureaucratic privilege, and political participation - especially on the all-important question of how we should interpret the trends we observe. We will all refer to the findings and insights of this benchmark study for years to come." Andrew G. Walder, Stanford University "Bill Parish, one of the most experienced and wide-ranging sociologists studying China, here teams up with a talented political scientist, Wenfang Tang, to present a broad overview of varying patterns in Chinese urban life after reform. They find wide differences among people, depending upon education and opportunity for exposure to outside media. They find differences among work units as workers who were highly dependent upon their superiors are gradually exposed to an open market system. In Taiwan, which has long had a high proportion of small, independent companies, individual effort still makes more difference than on the mainland. A comprehensive, broad picture of changes in Chinese urban society." Ezra Vogel, Asia Center, Harvard University "What has happened to China's urban political economy in the post-Mao era? Tang and Parish use ideas drawn from a wide range of social theories and the urban experiences of other countries to confront multiple sets of Chinese surveys dealing with urban life. the result is an impressive and persuasive summary statement of the balance of change and continuity in Chinese cities." Martin Whyte, George Washington University "A pioneering and encyclopedic study of China's urban social and political life during the economic reforms of the Deng era. The interesting findings on such topics as attitudes toward the reforms, political participation, and labor relations will inform all serious analyses in these areas. Makes effective use of hitherto underutilized survey data to test a variety of hypotheses." Michel Oksenberg, Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford University "...the writing is generally clear, especially in the introductory chapters, which do an excellent job of describing the Chinese urban environment and the problems that economic reform faces in China. Those looking for a thorough and well-grounded sociological analysis of contemporary Chinese urban life will find it in this book." Choice "This book is a milestone in the sociological study of contemporary China." Thomas B. Gold, American Journal Of Sociology＂

Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal stories of hundreds of men and women, Wilson persuasively argues that problems endemic to America's inner cities--from fatherless households to drugs and violent crime--stem directly from the disappearance of blue-collar jobs in the wake of a globalized economy. Wilson's achievement is to portray this crisis as one that affects all Americans, and to propose solutions whose benefits would be felt across our society. At a time when welfare is ending and our country's racial dialectic is more strained than ever, When Work Disappears is a sane, courageous, and desperately important work. "Wilson is the keenest liberal analyst of the most perplexing of all American problems...[This book is] more ambitious and more accessible than anything he has done before."--The New Yorker

In Search of Respect, Philippe Bourgois's now-classic, ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critical acclaim after it was first published in 1995 and in 1997 was awarded the Margaret Mead Award. For the first time, an anthropologist had managed to gain the trust and long-term friendship of street-level drug dealers in one of the roughest ghetto neighborhoods in the United States - East Harlem. This new edition adds a prologue describing the major dynamics in America that have altered life on the streets of East Harlem in the six years since the first edition. Bourgois, in a new epilogue, brings up to date the stories of the people - Primo, Caesar, Luis, Tony, Candy - who readers come to know in this remarkable window onto the world of the inner-city drug trade.

In this ground-breaking new text, Patrick Baert analyses the central perspectives in the philosophy of social science, critically investigating the work of Durkheim, Weber, Popper, critical realism, critical theory, and Rorty's neo pragmatism. Places key writers in their social and political contexts, helping to make their ideas meaningful to students. Shows how these authors’ views have practical uses in empirical research. Lively approach that makes complex ideas understandable to upper-level students, as well as having scholarly appeal.

With a new afterword by the author, this classic analysis of Western liberal capitalist society contends that capitalism?and the culture it creates?harbors the seeds of its own downfall by creating a need among successful people for personal gratification?a need that corrodes the work ethic that led to their success in the first place. With the end of the Cold War and the emergence of a new world order, this provocative manifesto is more relevant than ever.

How to Change the World provides vivid profiles of social entrepreneurs. The book is an In Search of Excellence for social initiatives, intertwining personal stories, anecdotes, and analysis. Readers will discover how one person can make an astonishing difference in the world. The case studies in the book include Jody Williams, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for the international campaign against landmines she ran by e-mail from her Vermont home; Roberto Baggio, a 31-year old Brazilian who has established eighty computer schools in the slums of Brazil; and Diana Propper, who has used investment banking techniques to make American corporations responsive to environmental dangers. The paperback edition will offer a new foreword by the author that shows how the concept of social entrepreneurship has expanded and unfolded over the last few years, including the Gates-Buffetts charitable partnership, the rise of Google, and the increased mainstream coverage of the subject. The book will also update the stories of individual social entrepreneurs that appeared in the cloth edition.

Ronald Burt describes the social structure theory of competition that has developed through the last two decades. The contrast between perfect competition and monopoly is replaced with a network model of competition. The basic element in this account is the structural hole: a gap between two individuals with complementary resources or information. When the two are connected through a third individual as entrepreneur, the gap is filled, creating important advantages for the entrepreneur. Competitive advantage is a matter of access to structural holes in relation to market transactions.

《21世纪统计学系列教材•统计分析与SPSS的应用(第2版)》属于21世纪统计学系列教材，它以大量的统计分析实例，奖统计分析方法基本思想的讲解和当前流行的计算机统计分析软件spss的实际操作结合在一起，为实际统计分析提供了一种切实可行的实现方案。在统计分析方法的讲解上，着重分析方法基本思想的讨论，力求通俗易懂、深入浅出，并通过实例加深读者对方法的理解，使高深的统计分析方法离我们不再遥远。内容安排上，既包括基本的统计分析方法，如：描述统计、频数分析、交叉列联表分析、多选项分析、参数检验、方差分析、非参数检验，同时也包括多元统计分析方法，如：多元回归分析、聚类分析、因子分析等，从而使读者能够由浅入深地掌握统计分析方法的思想精华。在统计分析软件spss的讲解上，以统计分析方法为主线，较为系统地讨论了软件的使用方法，并着重对实例分析的结果加以解释说明。这样，读者依照教材就能够逐步独立地进行实际的统计分析工作，既利于加深对分析方法思想的理解，也利于对分析结果的实际含义作出较为合理解释。

This is a powerful exploration of the debilitating impact that politically-correct "multiculturalism" has had upon higher education and academic freedom in the United States. In the name of diversity, many leading academic and cultural institutions are working to silence dissent and stifle intellectual life. This book exposes the real impact of multiculturalism on the institution most closely identified with the politically correct decline of higher education--Stanford University. Authored by two Stanford graduates, this book is a compelling insider's tour of a world of speech codes, "dumbed-down" admissions standards and curricula, campus witch hunts, and anti-Western zealotry that masquerades as legitimate scholarly inquiry. Sacks and Thiel use numerous primary sources--the Stanford Daily, class readings, official university publications--to reveal a pattern of politicized classes, housing, budget priorities, and more. They trace the connections between such disparate trends as political correctness, the gender wars, Generation X nihilism, and culture wars, showing how these have played a role in shaping multiculturalism at institutions like Stanford. The authors convincingly show that multiculturalism is not about learning more; it is actually about learning less. They end their comprehensive study by detailing the changes necessary to reverse the tragic disintegration of American universities and restore true academic excellence.

This collection of original, new studies about Mainland China,Hong Kong,Taiwan and Singapore and other overseas Chinese communities focuses on religious changes, and especially the role of the state and market in affecting religious developments in these societies. Information was gathered by participant observation and interviews primarily, and the analysis of documents secondarily. The topics covered are: the growing interest in the study of religion, the methods used by Christians to be able to coexist with a communist government, revival techniques being used by Buddhist monks, the strategies of Daoist priests and sect leaders to attract followers, the significance of mass-circulating morality books, and the ongoing debate about the significance and nature of Confucianism. The book will interest social scientists, religious specialists, journalists, and others who want to understand the changing nature of Chinese societies, and those interested in religious change in modernizing societies.

This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, "From the Soil" describes the contrasting organizational principles of Chinese and Western societies, thereby conveying the essential features of both. Fei shows how these unique features reflect and are reflected in the moral and ethical characters of people in these societies. This profound, challenging book is both succinct and accessible. In its first complete English-language edition, it is likely to have a wide impact on Western social theorists. Gary G. Hamilton and Wang Zheng's translation captures Fei's jargonless, straightforward style of writing. Their introduction describes Fei's education and career as a sociologist, the fate of his writings on and off the Mainland, and the sociological significance of his analysis. The translators' epilogue highlights the social reforms for China that Fei drew from his analysis and advocated in a companion text written in the same period.