本书作者运用叙说分析法，通过对台湾地区15位在晚年丧偶的妇女的深度访谈，研究探讨了影响中老年妇女适应丧偶后生活的各种主客观因素，包括性格特质、宗教信仰、受教育程度、经济状况、健康状况、夫妻管理、配偶生病时的照顾情况、配偶去世原因、丧葬事宜的处理、亲子关系、社会支持网络、文化信念与社会态度、对寡妇角色的看法、自我形象和生命主题等，并根据研究结果对社会服务、社会工作实务、政府政策制定、公民教育等提出了具体的建议。 　　21世纪的来临，为社工教育带来更多挑战，探讨社会问题，建立合适的福利架构，追求有效率的社会服务，争取社会公主……一切一切，有待三地学者持续不断的研究。期望这次文库的出版，是社工实践理论本土化的重要一步！

The national bestseller that put "work/family balance" in the headlines and on the White House agenda, with a new introduction by the author. When "The Time Bind" was first published in 1997, it was hailed as the decade's most influential study of our work/family crisis. In the short time since, the crisis has only become more acute. Arlie Russell Hochschild, bestselling author of The Second Shift, spent three summers at a Fortune 500 company interviewing top executives, secretaries, factory hands, and others. What she found was startling: Though every mother and nearly every father said "family comes first," few of these working parents questioned their long hours or took the company up on chances for flextime, paternity leave, or other "family friendly" policies. Why not? It seems the roles of home and work had reversed: work was offering stimulation, guidance, and a sense of belonging, while home had become the place in which there was too much to do in too little time. Today Hochschild's findings are more relevant than ever. As she shows in her new introduction, the borders between family and work have become even more permeable. With the Internet extending working hours at home and offices offering domestic enticements -- free snacks, soft music -- to keep employees later at their jobs, The Time Bind stands as an increasingly important warning about the way we live and work.

社会学与政治学的理论是如何看待科学在社会中的作用的?科学家及其他的专业研究者具有无限制的“犯错权”吗?资本主义和多元文化主义在未来的大学中意味着什么? 本书从社会学和政治学的角度，对科学在当代社会中日益强大的治理作用这一主题作了全新的考察。科学通常被视作唯一一种可以表达“开放社会”这一晦涩民主理念的制度，然而，现代科学在如下维持基本活力的要素方面与这一理念并不协调：它要求公众的信任远过于公众对其的理解，甚至科学自身也日益深刻地同宏大的政治与经济问题纠缠在一起。在本书中，作者在处理这一主题时，既没有采取自由主义的立场，也不同情共产主义的意识形态，而倾心于一种他称之为“共和主义”的研究进路，将论题集中在“犯错权”上来展开其理论构架。为此他显示了科学活动的新近扩张是如何削弱了共和思想的。本书的另一个核心内容是导致大学成为 “科学共和国”的斗争的社会史，作者将论述的焦点置于来自多元文化主义和资本主义的双重潜在挑战之上。最后，面临美国科学政策的重新调整，作者提出需以一种新的社会契约将科学“还俗”的建议。

当我们进入新千年时，都市研究领域在城市研究的学术法则和主题的多样性上从未像现在这样显得如此旺盛丰富，有如此多的新理念和新方法，如此地与我们时代的主要政治经济事件相结合，以及在理论和方法论上如此地动荡。现在可能是研究城市最好的时期，也是最坏的时期，因为有如此多的新东西和新挑战要应对，同时，就如何在实践上和理论上把握新的都市世界，从来没有像现在这样存在着不一致。读《后大都市:城市和区域的批判性研究》吧！

Social upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by the Spanish philosopher, José Ortega y Gasset. Continuously in print since 1932, Ortega's vision of Western culture as sinking to its lowest common denominator and drifting toward chaos brought its author international fame and has remained one of the influential books of the 20th century. Text: English, Spanish (translation) .

世界诸宗教之经济伦理 犹太教徒的理性主义与清教徒的禁欲主义 佛教的出世及其经济后果 耶稣对俗世的冷漠态度 论中国士人阶层 · · ·

In a classic indictment of American individualism and isolationism, Philip Slater analyzes the great ills of modern society-violence, competitiveness, inequality, and the national 'addiction' to technology

近年來，香港社會經濟模式急劇變化，人口老化、新移民問題、家庭暴力事件，以及社會福利改革浪潮，對社會工作專業帶來種種衝擊。社工專業雖早有倫理規範與工作守則，然而社工在工作上面對不少價值觀念與實務工作之間出現的兩難局面，因而對社工本質及信念產生懷疑。本書正是針對這個情況，以清新的筆觸重申社工本質、信念、理想及價值觀念的重要性，與學生及校友分享個人的經驗，給予積極指導。書中有些篇章是特為內地社工學生撰寫的，暢談如何為投入社工專業做好準備。

Castells' definition, developed in" The City and the Grassroots", of urban social movements as movements which combine struggles over collective consumption with those for community culture and political self-determination, reflects the dynamics of movements in the 1960s and 1970s - which have since undergone a series of transformations. In spite of these transformations and fragmentations, Castells' analysis remains relevant to contemporary studies of urban movements. One of its legacies is the identification of the conflict lines along which, still today, the major urban contestations take place, even though most of the individual movements no longer converge in one multi-class actor intent on urban social change. The issue of collective consumption is more topical than ever in the current conjuncture, as public infrastructure and services are curtailed, and as local as well as supra-national manifestations of the anti-globalization movement are zeroing in on the neoliberalization of the public sector. Also, Castells' highlighting of the contesting of state power has proved prophetic, not only in the continued presence of autonomous strands in the varied protests against commercialization, privatization, surveillance and exclusion, but also because it implies a sharp critique of the limitation of the civic engagement discourse currently in vogue. Copyright (c) 2006 The Authors. Journal Compilation (c) 2006 Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But of his many books, not one offers a satisfactory introduction to the entire complex body of his work. The Foucault Reader was commissioned precisely to serve that purpose. . The Reader contains selections from each area of Foucault's work as well as a wealth of previously unpublished writings, including important material written especially for this volume, the preface to the long-awaited second volume of The History of Sexuality, and interviews with Foucault himself, in the course of which he discussed his philosophy at first hand and with unprecedented candor. . This philosophy comprises an astonishing intellectual enterprise: a minute and ongoing investigation of the nature of power in society. Foucault's analyses of this power as it manifests itself in society, schools, hospitals, factories, homes, families, and other forms of organized society are brought together in The Foucault Reader to create an overview of this theme and of the broad social and political vision that underlies it. . . From the Inside Flap Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But of his many books, not one offers a satisfactory introduction to the entire complex body of his work. The Foucault Reader was commissioned precisely to serve that purpose. . The Reader contains selections from each area of Foucault's work as well as a wealth of previously unpublished writings, including important material written especially for this volume, the preface to the long-awaited second volume of The History of Sexuality, and interviews with Foucault himself, in the course of which he discussed his philosophy at first hand and with unprecedented candor. . This philosophy comprises an astonishing intellectual enterprise: a minute and ongoing investigation of the nature of power in society. Foucault's analyses of this power as it manifests itself in society, schools, hospitals, factories, homes, families, and other forms of organized society are brought together in The Foucault Reader to create an overview of this theme and of the broad social and political vision that underlies it.

In this age of multicultural democracy, the idea of assimilation--that the social distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of American society closes over time--seems outdated and, in some forms, even offensive. But as Richard Alba and Victor Nee show in the first systematic treatment of assimilation since the mid-1960s, it continues to shape the immigrant experience, even though the geography of immigration has shifted from Europe to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Institutional changes, from civil rights legislation to immigration law, have provided a more favorable environment for nonwhite immigrants and their children than in the past.

Assimilation is still driven, in claim, by the decisions of immigrants and the second generation to improve their social and material circumstances in America. But they also show that immigrants, historically and today, have profoundly changed our mainstream society and culture in the process of becoming Americans.

Surveying a variety of domains--language, socioeconomic attachments, residential patterns, and intermarriage--they demonstrate the continuing importance of assimilation in American life. And they predict that it will blur the boundaries among the major, racially defined populations, as nonwhites and Hispanics are increasingly incorporated into the mainstream.

Rightly fearing that unscrupulous rulers would break them up, seize their resources, or submit them to damaging forms of intervention, strong networks of trust such as kinship groups, clandestine religious sects, and trade diasporas have historically insulated themselves from political control by a variety of strategies. Drawing on a vast range of comparisons over time and space, Charles Tilly asks and answers how, and with what consequences, members of trust networks have evaded, compromised with, or even sought connections with political regimes.

The legendary financier-and founder of the Open Society Institute-offers crucial insight into the real meaning of freedom, and how societies can best promote it After reflecting on his support of a losing Democrat for president, George Soros steps back to revisit his views on why George Bush's policies around the world fall short in the arenas most important to Soros: democracy, human rights and open society. As a survivor of the Holocaust and a life-long proponent of free expression, Soros understands the meaning of freedom. And yet his differences with George Bush, another proponent of freedom, are profound. In this powerful essay Soros spells out his views and how they differ from the president's. He reflects on why the Democrats may have lost the high ground on these values issues and how they might reclaim it. As he has in his recent books, On Globalization and The Bubble of American Supremacy, Soros uses facts, anecdotes, personal experience and philosophy to illuminate a major topic in a way that both enlightens and inspires.

这部研究成果包括以下重点内容：一是探讨了黄河中下游家族群体和社会所处的特定地域生态环境，以及它们所拥有的民俗文化的内涵和演变的历史；二是重点着眼于二十世纪家族群体和村落社会的民俗传承与农村现代化的内在关联；三是从探索基层政权主导地位与民间传统权威的互动关系，深入检测现代化进程中的乡村社会结构并为社会主义新农村建设提供有效的咨询。 这些研究成果显然具有十分重要的价值和意义。它不仅填补了当代黄河文化研究的空白，而且为当代民俗学对家族群体和村落社会的民俗研究做出了新的开拓。该课题十分注重黄河中下游的区域民俗特征，用大量原真性的实证材料进行微观的比对、比照和解析，从而清晰地展现了论题的焦点“家族村落”的鲜活特征，显然在方法上也有所创新和突破。

《天演论》译作原本为英国著名博物学家托马斯·赫胥黎所著的《进化论和伦理学》，在书中，他质疑以“大自然的进步法则”来设计人类社会政策的合理性和可能性。而《天演论》不是对《进化论和伦理学》的照搬，严复反驳了赫胥黎的理论，把优胜劣汰的进化观点运用到社会发展的进程当中。指出了当时人们亟需救国治国的历史重任。译者严复有目的、有针对性的在书中发出了他忧国忧民的救亡政见。自《天演论》之后，国人纷纷开始用进化及竞争的目光，为近代处于危难之中的中国寻找出路。

In this collection of essays, Theda Skocpol, author of the award-winning book States and Social Revolutions (1979), updates her arguments about social revolutions. How are we to understand recent revolutionary upheavals in countries across the globe? Why have social revolutions happened in some countries, but not in others that seem similar? Skocpol shows how she and other scholars have used ideas about states and societies to identify the particular types of regimes that are susceptible to the growth of revolutionary movements and vulnerable to transfers of state power to revolutionary challengers. Skocpol engages in thoughtful dialogue with critics, and she suggests how culture and ideology can properly be incorporated into historical and comparative studies. She also vigorously defends the value of an institutionalist, comparative and historical approach against recent challenges from Marxists, rational choice theorists, and culturally oriented interpreters of particular revolutions.