We all want to help. Over the past fifty years $1 trillion of aid has flowed from Western governments to Africa, with rock stars and actors campaigning for more. But this has not helped Africa. It has ruined it. Dambisa Moyo's excoriating and controversial book reveals why millions are actually poorer because of aid, unable to escape corruption and reduced, in the West's eyes, to a childlike state of beggary. "Dead Aid" shows us another way. Using hard evidence to illustrate her case, Moyo shows how, with access to capital and with the right policies, even the poorest nations can turn themselves around. First we must destroy the myth that aid works - and make charity history.

社會學長久以來建基於過去的「軍國主義」社會和目前的「資本主義」或「工業化」社會這兩種相對立的社會型態的拉鋸之間，但這兩種對立型態的社會，究竟何者才真正有效的強化了現今在複雜軍事武器上的發展呢？ 在開始提出這類似的問題之前，本書所探究的議題，實際上常被那些社會學或社會理論的工作所忽視。紀登斯提供了一種對現代民族－國家性質的社會學分析，以及相聯結的，即進行戰爭時的手段上的分析。他的分析關係到那些傳統的社會理論家所處理的議題——資本主義和工業化基礎影響下的現代社會發展。其結果是一種同時具有現代化特徵與國際關係類型的制度。 作者所發展的這種嶄新而有刺激性的思索，將會廣泛影響到各種學科的活動：社會學、政治學、地理學，以及國際事務。

The third volume in the internationally bestselling McKinsey Trilogy, The McKinsey Engagement is an action guide to realizing the consistently high level of business solutions achieved by the experts at the world’s most respected consulting firms. Former consultant Dr. Paul Friga distills the guiding principles first presented in the bestselling The McKinsey Way and the tested-in-the-trenches methodologies outlined in The McKinsey Mind, and combines them with many of the principles and procedures implemented by the military and other organizations. The result is nothing less than the business equivalent of a Special Forces Field Manual. True to its stated goal of arming consultants and corporate problem solvers with a blueprint for achieving consistently phenomenal results, The McKinsey Engagement is short on theory and long on action. Each chapter focuses on one element in the celebrated TEAM FOCUS problem-solving model and features a concise discussion of a key concept or principle, followed by: Clear rules of engagement A set of operating tactics Sophisticated problem solving tools Easy-to-follow action steps Exercises, checklists, and training tips War stories and best practices case studies A toolkit for bringing clarity, discipline, and purpose to all your problem-solving and change management initiatives, The McKinsey Engagement is an indispensable guide for consultants, as well as for executives, managers, students, and corporate trainers.

Review Lucid and comprehensive, Jackson's book elegantly synthesizes several important strands of network science from sociology, physics, mathematics, computer science, and economics. It will be an immensely useful reference for researchers and students alike. (Duncan Watts, Columbia University ) Product Description Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. The many aspects of our lives that are governed by social networks make it critical to understand how they impact behavior, which network structures are likely to emerge in a society, and why we organize ourselves as we do. In Social and Economic Networks, Matthew Jackson offers a comprehensive introduction to social and economic networks, drawing on the latest findings in economics, sociology, computer science, physics, and mathematics. He provides empirical background on networks and the regularities that they exhibit, and discusses random graph-based models and strategic models of network formation. He helps readers to understand behavior in networked societies, with a detailed analysis of learning and diffusion in networks, decision making by individuals who are influenced by their social neighbors, game theory and markets on networks, and a host of related subjects. Jackson also describes the varied statistical and modeling techniques used to analyze social networks. Each chapter includes exercises to aid students in their analysis of how networks function. This book is an indispensable resource for students and researchers in economics, mathematics, physics, sociology, and business.

本书是一本论文集，它从不同视角对欧洲当代几位最重要的思想家：哈贝马斯、阿多诺、布尔迪厄、卢曼、桑巴特等的学说进行深入的分析及评述；既有理论的讲述，又有作者与这些思想家的近距离接触。这几位思想家都是典型的欧洲理论家，一辈子孜孜不倦营造匠心独运、博大精深的理论体系。在此，“欧洲”不仅意指一种地理位置，更是指涉一种风格和品味，即在数百年的理论积累和社会政治变迁的环境下，欧洲所形成的深刻、浑厚的思想成就。构成这些成就的思想家正是理论之园中的奇葩。

《城市角落与记忆1:社会生态视角》透过对城市各种角落、部落、社区的专业调查，展示城市丰富的人文生态与生存机理，记录城市社会结构的历史变迁细节，为我国的城市化进程找寻出更具人文关怀、更具理性思维、更具形象张力的深层问题与逻辑，使城市建设得以和谐发展。

年前，因四川成都市派出所副所長王新和民警黃小兵的玩忽職守，導致3歲小女孩李思怡慘被活活餓死──這就是震動全國的「李思怡事件」。 本書作者康曉光一直對此事件進行實地調查，走訪了李思怡在社區的家委會、派出所、公安機關、法院等機構﹔採訪對象包括李思怡的鄰居、法官、政府官員、採訪過這一事件的記者等等，以李思怡案為個案，探究反貧困領域中的「制度失靈」問題。 圍繞李思怡事件，互聯網上發表了大量報道、分析、評論和紀念詩文，作者精選了其中一部分整理出來，作為本書的附錄部分，在這些文字中有傾訴的哀傷、流淌的淚水、燃燒的怒火和擲地有聲的吶喊，在在充滿了溫情和正義。本書真實地再現了駭人聽聞的「李思怡事件」的全貌，並以社會學家的視角深入剖析了事件的成因，值得世人反思。

The second edition of Annette Lareau's Unequal Childhoods contains contains the classic analysis of how social class shapes parenting and revisits the original families a decade after the original study to examine the effects of social class in the transition to adulthood.

郭于华主编的《清华社会学评论(第5辑)》内容涵盖：面向社会转型的民族志、转型争论两个部分，收录了包括《从社会学的想象力到民族志的洞察力》、《新古典社会学：从共产主义的终结到阶级的终结》等在内的14篇社会学评论文章。

More than 630 million Chinese have escaped poverty since the 1980s, reducing the fraction remaining from 82 to 10 percent of the population. This astonishing decline in poverty, the largest in history, coincided with the rapid growth of a private enterprise economy. Yet private enterprise in China emerged in spite of impediments set up by the Chinese government. How did private enterprise overcome these initial obstacles to become the engine of China's economic miracle? Where did capitalism come from? Studying over 700 manufacturing firms in the Yangzi region, Victor Nee and Sonja Opper argue that China's private enterprise economy bubbled up from below. Through trial and error, entrepreneurs devised institutional innovations that enabled them to decouple from the established economic order to start up and grow small, private manufacturing firms. Barriers to entry motivated them to build their own networks of suppliers and distributors, and to develop competitive advantage in self-organized industrial clusters. Close-knit groups of like-minded people participated in the emergence of private enterprise by offering financing and establishing reliable business norms. This rapidly growing private enterprise economy diffused throughout the coastal regions of China and, passing through a series of tipping points, eroded the market share of state-owned firms. Only after this fledgling economy emerged as a dynamic engine of economic growth, wealth creation, and manufacturing jobs did the political elite legitimize it as a way to jump-start China's market society. Today, this private enterprise economy is one of the greatest success stories in the history of capitalism.

《利益集团社会(第5版)》前半部分重点关注利益集团的基本内容，着重考察了利益集团数量爆增和游说活动扩大的根本原因，讨论了利益集团的缘起、维持、营销和治理，政党与利益集团之间的关系，以及利益集团试图影响选举结果的方式，后半部分则重点关注代表利益集团的说客，着重考察了利益集团通过说客影响普通大众的方式，说客对政府三个部门的直接游说，以及华盛顿的说客之间的联盟政治等。

Over the past quarter century, researchers have successfully explored the inner workings of the physical and biological sciences using a variety of social and historical lenses. Inspired by these advances, the contributors to Social Knowledge in the Making turn their attention to the social sciences, broadly construed. The result is the first comprehensive effort to study and understand the day-to-day activities involved in the creation of social-scientific and related forms of knowledge about the social world. The essays collected here tackle a range of previously unexplored questions about the practices involved in the production, assessment, and use of diverse forms of social knowledge. A stellar cast of multidisciplinary scholars addresses topics such as the changing practices of historical research, anthropological data collection, library usage, peer review, and institutional review boards. Turning to the world beyond the academy, other essays focus on global banks, survey research organizations, and national security and economic policy makers. Social Knowledge in the Making is a landmark volume for a new field of inquiry, and the bold new research agenda it proposes will be welcomed in the social science, the humanities, and a broad range of nonacademic settings.

《后社会学》内容简介：学术创新不仅是一个学科的生命力所在，而且也是一个教学科研机构的生命力所在。自20世纪80年代中国社会学恢复重建以来，社会学系和社会学人类学研究所的同仁们就始终把学术创新作为自己努力的方向之一，力求在继承前人优秀学术遗产，以及学习、吸收、借鉴和改造当代海内外同行优秀学术成果的基础上，通过不断的学术创新来提升自己的教学、科研水平，缩小与国际学术界之间的差距，跟上学科发展的步伐，使北京大学社会学的学科发展始终能够处于本学科发展的前列，为本学科的发展和中国及人类社会的发展做出自己的一份贡献。

《大政府,小国民:经济学视角下的社会财富增长之道》内容简介：为什么中国是假学历的天堂？为了公利，是否可以强拆？为什么穷人的路越走越窄？为什么城市拥堵久病难医？春运，真的无药可医吗？房地产行业存在垄断吗？“摩的”应当被禁止吗？发展经济的目的是什么？谁妨碍了穷人涨工资？“唱红”错在哪？水价该不该涨？ 《大政府,小国民:经济学视角下的社会财富增长之道》以众多老百姓日常生活中遇到的问题为线索，用简单明了的语言，将经济学与现实生动地结合在一起。书中强调，荒唐行为源自荒唐制度，好的制度将魔鬼变成天使，坏的制度却将天使变成魔鬼。政府权力越大，民众的权利越是无法得到保障。中国政府是典型的“大政府”，而几千年来，中国老百姓一直没有摆脱“小国民”的命运、“大政府”下的“小国民”如何运用经济学来改变自己的生活呢？

Drawing on more than four decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Howard Becker now brings to students and researchers the many valuable techniques he has learned. Tricks of the Trade will help students learn how to think about research projects. Assisted by Becker's sage advice, students can make better sense of their research and simultaneously generate fresh ideas on where to look next for new data. The tricks cover four broad areas of social science: the creation of the "imagery" to guide research; methods of "sampling" to generate maximum variety in the data; the development of "concepts" to organize findings; and the use of "logical" methods to explore systematically the implications of what is found. Becker's advice ranges from simple tricks such as changing an interview question from "Why?" to "How?" (as a way of getting people to talk without asking for a justification) to more technical tricks such as how to manipulate truth tables. Becker has extracted these tricks from a variety of fields such as art history, anthropology, sociology, literature, and philosophy; and his dazzling variety of references ranges from James Agee to Ludwig Wittgenstein. Becker finds the common principles that lie behind good social science work, principles that apply to both quantitative and qualitative research. He offers practical advice, ideas students can apply to their data with the confidence that they will return with something they hadn't thought of before. Like Writing for Social Scientists, Tricks of the Trade will bring aid and comfort to generations of students. Written in the informal, accessible style for which Becker is known, this book will be an essential resource for students in a wide variety of fields. "An instant classic. . . . Becker's stories and reflections make a great book, one that will find its way into the hands of a great many social scientists, and as with everything he writes, it is lively and accessible, a joy to read."—Charles Ragin, Northwestern University

Among the first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe, Katherine Verdery had built up a significant base of ethnographic and historical expertise when the major political transformations in the region began to take place. In this collection of essays dealing with the aftermath of Soviet-style socialism and the different forms that may replace it, she explores the nature of socialism in order to understand more fully its consequences. By analyzing her primary data from Romania and Transylvania and synthesizing information from other sources, Verdery lends a distinctive anthropological perspective to a variety of themes common to political and economic studies on the end of socialism: themes such as 'civil society', the creation of market economies, privatization, national and ethnic conflict, and changing gender relations.Under Verdery's examination, privatization and civil society appear not only as social processes, for example, but as symbols in political rhetoric. The classic pyramid scheme is not just a means of enrichment but a site for reconceptualizing the meaning of money and an unusual form of post-Marxist millenarianism. Land being redistributed as private property stretches and shrinks, as in the imaginings of the farmers struggling to tame it. Infused by this kind of ethnographic sensibility, the essays reject the assumption of a transition to capitalism in favor of investigating local processes in their own terms.

揭露「地產霸權」之後，你更不能不知「官商同謀」的可怕真相。 要解開香港死結，由剖析殖民時代埋下的公義私利矛盾開始…… 港英時代最後一任中央政策組首席顧問顧汝德，綜合多年對香港政府及商界的觀察和親身體驗，寫成《官商同謀——香港公義私利的矛盾》，審視政府和商界經常陷入矛盾的同謀關係，以致令民主發展和社會公義賠上沉重的代價。 書中重點披露，港英政府為了維持香港經濟增長和確保殖民地管治威信，如何削弱英商的利益及英國在外交上的影響力，轉而與華資商界精英合作。書中亦展示社會大眾如何奮力抗衡「官商同謀」，防範公眾利益被公然出賣，成為英資、中資或本地商界的私人利益。 香港回歸後，「官商同謀」繼續上演。中國政府決定維持殖民地時代的政治制度，令特區政府的新管治班子，無法正面回應社會各界對政治及社會民生的訴求，處處裹足不前，令社會階級矛盾更深，面臨引爆點。 本書特別收錄作者於2011年全新序言及修訂版引言，貼近香港政局的最新發展。