《质性研究概论》内容简介：“质性研究”是社会科学领域中最常用的研究方法之一，它以了解主观意义、解释人类行为与社会生活的丰富内涵为宗旨，主张对调查资料的诠释和社会现象的“批判与解构”，强调对事物的复杂性和过程性进行长期深入的考察与体悟。《质性研究概论》不仅对质性研究的基本理念、理论基础和研究设计作了系统的探讨和分析，而且还对一些常用的质性研究方法作了详细介绍和深入浅出的案例说明，为社会科学研究者与实务工作者更好地掌握质性研究方法提供了很好的范本。

本书的15篇文章选自第四届国际控制论与系统论会议（荷兰，阿姆斯特丹，1978年8月21-25日）社会系统专题座谈和分组讨论的61篇论文。涉及从“社会与图灵机”到“辩证法与突变”等许多有趣的题材。

《城市研究手册》主要内容简介：全球的一半人口生活在城市中，城市决定着我们的经济的空间结构和社会生活的体验。在全球化背景下，城市是经济增长得以持续的最主要的中介，也是政治控制得以为继的最主要的场所。《城市研究手册》提供了有关城市结构和城市变迁的全景式评价综述，同时汇集了让我们得以理解城市的结构、发展和变迁的研究理论精髓。《城市研究手册》定义并分析了如下关键问题：·什么是城市·作为环境的城市·公民之城市·城市经济·有组织的政体一一城市·后现代城市中的权力和政策话语·转型中的城市《城市研究手册》将吸引从学者、研究者到政策制定者的广泛的读者群。由于包含不同学科对于城市研究的理论上的和经验上的分析，因此对于城市研究、城镇规划、社会文化地理和公共管理等领域的研究者和专家来说，《城市研究手册》是一个独特且不可或缺的资源。

Over the years Charles Tilly has had an indelible influence on a remarkable number of key questions in social science and history. In the fields of social change, states and institutions, urbanization, and historical sociology, his seminal work has spawned whole new lines of inquiry and research. In one volume, this book offers the best and most influential of Tilly's important work, with a new introduction by the author that relates his analyses to a wide body of scholarship. The book includes a review and critique by Arthur Stinchcombe.

《全球化与理论旅行:跨国女性主义的知识生产》为“妇女与社会性别学书系”中的一本。全书主要探讨了“流动的空间”与“消失的地域”——反思全球化过程中的空间与地域的想象；翻译的问题也是知识生产的问题吗；跨国女权主义运动快照之一：gender在中国的旅行片段；在不可能中创造可能——关于妇女/性别研究学科化的思考等方面的知识，供读者朋友们参考。在全球化已经在中国着陆的大背景下，如何认识全球化？全球化是否只是代表着“全球”，“国际”这些“悬在天上”的概念？说到全球化，国内还有个很流行的说法，就是“全球一体化”。那么，全球是否是一体化？如果不是，或不完全是，它又是什么？如何认识全球化的另一方面——地方化？以及与其相关的概念“地方”、“地域”，它们与全球化是个什么样的关系？ 在国内妇女研究已经步入全球化的状况下，如果只关注“本土化”或“中国化”，是否还能说明问题？如果不能，那么，全球化对中国妇女研究又意味着什么？

当代恐怖主义问题的凸显与全球化进程关系十分密切，它不仅带有鲜明的全球化特征，而且在某种意义上是全球化背景下“文明冲突”和宗教关系的产物。《文明冲突、恐怖主义与宗教关系》以述评的方式分别介绍了近几年国外较有影响的9部学术专著，这些著作围绕恐怖主义、宗教和政治问题，从不同角度努力寻求各自的解决方案。“他山之石，可以攻玉。”《文明冲突、恐怖主义与宗教关系》对国内学术界无疑具有相当的参考价值。

《质性研究的理论视角:一种反身性的方法论》清晰地揭示了经验研究所运用的方法与不同的研究传统之间的关联，为理论结构与经验研究之间更具思想开放性与创造性的互动指明了途径，是社会科学诸多领域的学生与研究者的基本读物。全书评述并批判性地讨论了一些主要学派，突出了它们在经验研究中的问题与可能性。作者对主要学派，如建构理论、解释学、批判理论、后现代主义与后结构主义、会话分析、系谱学与女权主义等，给出了同等的评述，尤其关注文化、语言、选择性理解、认知与意识形态的主观形式是如何渗入科学活动的。 《质性研究的理论视角:一种反身性的方法论》大部分内容讨论的是反身性方法论的发展与例证。反身性是研究过程的基本要素，它为实地研究的成功解释与深刻结论的进展提供了必要的视域。反省包括哲学反思与对研究者的假定的问题化、解释以及与经验材料的互动。

《人类学与旅游时代》是世界著名旅游人类学家、国际旅游研究院创始人、美国加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校纳尔逊·格雷本（NelSOD H.H.Graburn）教授的旅游人类学论文集。《人类学与旅游时代》汇集了作者在这一领域里最有代表性的研究，由引言、旅游人类学基础理论、日本国内的旅游研究、东亚及其他地区的旅游研究、博物馆与物质文化、旅游人类学的方法与理论六个部分构成。文集阐述了旅游人类学的基础性学理，探讨了以旅行一旅游为基本活动方式的研究方法对传统人类学在方法论上提出的挑战和具备的变革意义，更收录了作者对当前世界范围内兴起的“遗产热”相关方面的独到研究，如对日本近几十年来旅游发展的案例借鉴，对东亚及其他地区旅游发展战略的情状分析。文集融理论与方法、遗产与物质、区域与战略、个案与实践等为一体，较全面地反映了格雷本教授在旅游人类学研究方面的成就。

How can we get inside popular collective struggles and explain how they work? Contentious Performances presents a distinctive approach to analyzing such struggles, drawing especially on incomparably rich evidence from Great Britain between 1758 and 1834. The book accomplishes three main things. First, it presents a logic and method for describing contentious events, occasions on which people publicly make consequential claims on each other. Second, it shows how that logic yields superior explanations of the dynamics in such events, both individually and in the aggregate. Third, it illustrates its methods and arguments by means of detailed analyses of contentious events in Great Britain from 1758 to 1834.

至2008年止，CGSS一共进行了五次年度调查，完成了项目的第一期。自2010年起，CGSS开始了项目的第二期，计划从2010年开始到2019年为止，每两年进行一次调查，共进行五次调查。

《强势时代》讲述了：“这个时代比我们的头脑更强大。”从恐怖主义到核扩散，到新技术的涌现、新兴经济大国的崛起、经济一体化不断加强……埃蒙·凯利以非凡的洞察力阐释了势力强大的“动态矛盾”，它将在未来几十年重新塑造人类生活，制造一轮我们未曾见过的变革。

In this completely revised edition of one of the foundational texts of network sociology, Harrison White refines and enlarges his groundbreaking theory of how social structure and culture emerge from the chaos and uncertainty of social life. Incorporating new contributions from a group of young sociologists and many fascinating and novel case studies, "Identity and Control" is the only major book of social theory that links social structure with the lived experience of individuals, providing a rich perspective on the kinds of social formations that develop in the process. Going beyond traditional sociological dichotomies such as agency/structure, individual/society, or micro/macro, "Identity and Control" presents a toolbox of concepts that will be useful to a wide range of social scientists, as well as those working in public policy, management, or associational life and, beyond, to any reader who is interested in understanding the dynamics of social life.

此書是「香港中文大學現象學與人文科學研究中心」所主編之「漢語現象學與人文科學研究叢書」之一。作者認為，過去二三十年，西方學院中的社會學日漸衰退，社會大眾對這門學問也日趨冷淡，另一方面剛過去的百年見證了現象學、社會學和其他人文科學的湧現，現在正好整合地利用它們有系統地整理社會學。重拾理論社會學之夢的時機已經成熟，我們有機會整理出一門學問，可以像理論物理學那樣，能夠起啟迪和指引實證研究。 作者由三個社會學關注之對象的三個普遍構思開始（亦即，社會結構、社會集體表象，以及社會行動），嘗試構築社會學體系的理論之夢。

When originally published in Norway, Ethnic Groups and Boundaries marked the transition to a new era of ethnic studies. Today this much-cited classic is regarded as the seminal volume from which stems much current anthropological thinking about ethnicity. Ethnic Groups and Boundaries opens with Barth’s invaluable thirty-page essay that introduces students to important theoretical issues in the analysis of ethnic groups. Following is a collection of seven essays—the results of a symposium involving a small group of Scandinavian social anthropologists—intended to illustrate the application of Barth’s analytical viewpoints to different sides of the problems of polyethnic organization in various ethnographic areas, including Norway, Sudan, Ethiopia, Mexico, Afghanistan, and Laos.

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Former foreign editor of Time, Ramo pushes the reader into uncomfortable yet exhilarating places with controversial ways of thinking about global challenges (e.g., studying why Hezbollah is the most efficiently run Islamic militant group). His book, which lays bare the flaws in current thinking on everything from American political influence to the economy, is designed to change the physics of the way we think. Analyzing the failure of the Bush administration's Democratic Peace Theory and the fruitless efforts at a Mideast peace process, Ramo suggests that people must change the role they imagine for themselves from architects of a system they can control to gardeners in a living ecosystem. Ramo's message—that the most dynamic forces emerge from outside elite circles: geeks, iconoclasts and maligned populations—is persuasively argued. And while the author doesn't explicitly offer up solutions, he goads readers to approach problems in unexpected ways. His revelatory work argues that there must be some audacity in thinking before there can be any audacity of hope. (Apr.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review "Former foreign editor of Time, Ramo pushes the reader into uncomfortable yet exhilarating places with controversial ways of thinking about global challenges...Persuasively argued...[Ramo's] revelatory work argues that there must be some audacity in thinking before there can be any audacity of hope." (Publishers Weekly ) "Thought-provoking....Ramo questions conventional thinking and provides fresh ideas-something we deeply need these days."-Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein

The essays in this book trace the development of Joel Migdal's 'state-in-society' approach. That approach illuminates how power is exercised around the world, and how and when patterns of power change. Despite the triumph of concept of state in social science literature, actual states have had great difficulty in turning public policies into planned social change. The state-in-society approach points observers to the ongoing struggles over which rules dictating how people will lead their daily lives. These struggles, which ally parts of the state and groups in society against other such coalitions, determine how societies and states create and maintain distinct ways of structuring day-to-day life - the nature of the rules that govern people's behavior, whom they benefit and whom they disadvantage, which sorts of elements unite people and which divide them, what shared meaning people hold about their relations with others and their place in the world.

在過去的二十年中，中國社會的開放帶來了宗教信仰的復興。而其中基督教、佛教與民間宗教的復甦尤其突出，引起了許多學者的極大興趣。此書正是作者在長期從事宗教社會學理論研究之後，走出書齋，進行宗教社會學實證研究的一個成果。它至少是中國幾十年來少有的以第一手調查為基礎，以「求真求實」為目標，實事求是地反映當代北京基督教和基督徒真相的一部作品。