具体描述
This exciting collection of new essays suggests ways that cultural analysis can become more socially grounded, while also challenging sociology to learn from analytic perspectives developed outside the discipline.
《社会学通论：理解现代世界的基石》 本书是一部全面而深入的社会学导论，旨在为读者构建理解现代社会运作的完整框架。我们相信，社会学不仅仅是一门学科，更是一种思维方式，它能帮助我们洞察人与人、人与社会、以及社会内部各种复杂联系的本质。从古老的文明萌芽到当今瞬息万变的全球化时代，人类社会始终处于动态的发展与变革之中。本书正是为了帮助您系统地把握这些变迁的规律，理解其背后的驱动力量，并培养独立思考和批判性分析的能力。 本书的编排逻辑严谨，内容涵盖了社会学最核心的概念、理论和研究方法。开篇，我们将从社会学的基本视角出发，探讨社会学的研究对象，以及为何研究社会学对于理解我们自身和所处的世界至关重要。接着，我们会深入探讨社会学的 foundational theories，例如结构功能主义、冲突理论和符号互动论，并分析它们各自的优势与局限性，帮助读者建立多元化的理论认知。 在理论框架的基础上，本书将详细阐述构成社会生活基本元素的各个维度。我们将首先关注个体在社会中的位置，深入分析社会化过程，探讨家庭、教育、媒体等关键社会机构如何塑造我们的身份认同、价值观和行为模式。理解社会化对于理解个体行为的多样性和社会规范的形成至关重要。 随后，我们将视角转向更广泛的社会结构。本书将深入剖析社会分层与不平等，探讨阶级、种族、性别等因素如何在社会中产生差异和权力结构。我们将审视社会经济地位、社会资本和机会均等的问题，从而理解社会不平等的根源及其对个体命运的影响。 接下来，我们将聚焦于社会组织与制度。本书将详细介绍国家、经济、宗教、法律等主要社会制度的功能、演变及其在维系社会秩序、促进社会发展中的作用。我们将探讨权力、权威、合法性等概念，以及它们如何在不同社会形态中体现。 此外，本书还将重点关注社会变迁与现代化进程。我们将分析技术进步、人口流动、全球化等因素如何重塑社会结构和文化模式。从工业革命到信息时代的到来，社会变迁的速度和范围都在不断加快，理解这些变迁的动力和后果，对于我们应对未来的挑战至关重要。 在方法论层面，本书将详细介绍社会学的研究方法，包括定性研究和定量研究的原则、设计和数据分析技巧。我们将讨论问卷调查、访谈、参与式观察、历史分析等常用方法，并强调实证研究在社会学知识构建中的重要性。本书还将引导读者如何批判性地评估社会学研究的成果，识别潜在的偏见和局限性。 本书的语言风格力求清晰、流畅且易于理解，避免使用过多的专业术语，即使有，也会提供详尽的解释。我们旨在通过生动的事例、经典的案例分析以及对当代社会现象的解读，让抽象的社会学概念变得触手可及。我们希望本书能够激发读者对社会现象的强烈好奇心，并引导他们成为积极的社会观察者和思考者。 无论您是初次接触社会学，还是希望深化对社会学的理解，本书都将为您提供一个坚实的基础和广阔的视野。我们相信，掌握了社会学的分析工具，您将能更深刻地理解我们所身处的这个日益复杂的世界，并更有能力参与到塑造更美好社会的过程中来。 《社会学通论：理解现代世界的基石》不仅仅是一本教科书，更是一次邀请，邀请您加入到对人类社会最深刻问题的探索之中。让我们一起，用社会学的智慧，照亮前行的道路。
作者简介
Elizabeth Long is Associate Professor of Sociology at Rice University. A former chair of the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association, she is author of The American Dream and the Best Selling Novel (Blackwell), and is currently completing work on Reading Together, Women's Reading Groups and the Making of America
目录信息
List of Contributors.
Preface.
Introduction: Engaging Sociology and Cultural Studies: Disciplinarity and Social Change: Elizabeth Long (Rice University).
Part I: Thinking Through Memory and Tradition:.
1. Relativizing Sociology: The Challenge of Cultural Studies: Steven Seidman (State University of New York at Albany).
2. Reading Architecture in the Holocaust Museum: A Method and an Empirical Illustration: Magali Sarfatti Larson (Temple University).
3. Subject Crises and Subject Work: Repositioning DuBois: Jon Cruz (University of California, Santa Barbara).
4. Conserving Cultural Studies: Andres Goodwin and Janet Wolff (University of San Francisco and University of Rochester).
Part II: Reframing Popular Forms and Usages:.
5. Monsters and Muppets: The History of Childhood and Techniques of Cultural Analysis: Chandra Mukerji (University of California, San Diego).
6. Rewriting the Pleasure/Danger Dialectic: Tricia Rose (New York University).
7. Situating Television in Everyday Life: Reformulating a Cultural Studies Approach to the Study of Television Use: Ron Lembo (Amherst College).
8. Facing Up to What's Killing Us: Artistic Practice and Grassroots Social Theory: George Lipsitz.
Part III: Relating Cultural Processes and Social Inequality:.
9. Colliding Moralities Between Black and White Workers: Michele Lamont (Princeton University).
10. The Ideology of Intensive Mothering: A Cultural Analysis of the Best-Selling 'Gurus' of Appropriate Child-rearing: Sharon Hays (University of Virginia).
11. Mexican American Youth and the Politics of Caring: Angela Valenzuela (Rice University).
12. Jazz Tradition, Institutional Formation, and Cultural Practice: The Canon and the Street as Frameworks for Oppositional Black Cultural Politics: Herman Gray (University of California, Santa Cruz).
Part IV: Engaging Disciplinarity and Other Politics of Knowledge:.
13. The Social Construction of "Social Cunstruction": Notes on "Teddy Bear Patriarchy": Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego).
14. Critical Cultural Studies as One Power/Knowledge Like, Among, and In Engagement with Others: George Marcus (Rice University).
15. The Men We Left Behind Us, or Reading Our Br(others): Narratives Around and About Feminism from White, Leftwing, Academic Men: Judith Newton and Judith Stacey (University of California at Davis and University of Southern California).
16. Re-Inventing Cultural Studies: Remembering for the Best Version: Richard Johnson (Nottingham Trent University).
17. Whither Cultural Studies?: Ellen Messer-Davidow (University of Minnesota).
Index.
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Preface.
Introduction: Engaging Sociology and Cultural Studies: Disciplinarity and Social Change: Elizabeth Long (Rice University).
Part I: Thinking Through Memory and Tradition:.
1. Relativizing Sociology: The Challenge of Cultural Studies: Steven Seidman (State University of New York at Albany).
2. Reading Architecture in the Holocaust Museum: A Method and an Empirical Illustration: Magali Sarfatti Larson (Temple University).
3. Subject Crises and Subject Work: Repositioning DuBois: Jon Cruz (University of California, Santa Barbara).
4. Conserving Cultural Studies: Andres Goodwin and Janet Wolff (University of San Francisco and University of Rochester).
Part II: Reframing Popular Forms and Usages:.
5. Monsters and Muppets: The History of Childhood and Techniques of Cultural Analysis: Chandra Mukerji (University of California, San Diego).
6. Rewriting the Pleasure/Danger Dialectic: Tricia Rose (New York University).
7. Situating Television in Everyday Life: Reformulating a Cultural Studies Approach to the Study of Television Use: Ron Lembo (Amherst College).
8. Facing Up to What's Killing Us: Artistic Practice and Grassroots Social Theory: George Lipsitz.
Part III: Relating Cultural Processes and Social Inequality:.
9. Colliding Moralities Between Black and White Workers: Michele Lamont (Princeton University).
10. The Ideology of Intensive Mothering: A Cultural Analysis of the Best-Selling 'Gurus' of Appropriate Child-rearing: Sharon Hays (University of Virginia).
11. Mexican American Youth and the Politics of Caring: Angela Valenzuela (Rice University).
12. Jazz Tradition, Institutional Formation, and Cultural Practice: The Canon and the Street as Frameworks for Oppositional Black Cultural Politics: Herman Gray (University of California, Santa Cruz).
Part IV: Engaging Disciplinarity and Other Politics of Knowledge:.
13. The Social Construction of "Social Cunstruction": Notes on "Teddy Bear Patriarchy": Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego).
14. Critical Cultural Studies as One Power/Knowledge Like, Among, and In Engagement with Others: George Marcus (Rice University).
15. The Men We Left Behind Us, or Reading Our Br(others): Narratives Around and About Feminism from White, Leftwing, Academic Men: Judith Newton and Judith Stacey (University of California at Davis and University of Southern California).
16. Re-Inventing Cultural Studies: Remembering for the Best Version: Richard Johnson (Nottingham Trent University).
17. Whither Cultural Studies?: Ellen Messer-Davidow (University of Minnesota).
Index.
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