《信任论》照例以定义开篇，在追溯了“信任”与“trust”的汉英词源，它们在《论语》、《圣经》、《古兰经》中的意思，在俗话中的意思，以及理论家著作中信任的含义后，作出了笔者对信任的界定。这是第一章。之所以在第二章探讨人的本性，在于以为本性从深层对信任发生影响。信任与合作有着不解之缘，因此第三讨论合作的进化。第四章从人类的行为动因和手段选择两方面批判新古典经济学的理性选择思想。信任最初产生于新族中，产生于领地上，领地为什么是人类生存的必要策略？边界的功能是什么？为什么在生物界中，几乎只有人类发生了严重的领地之争？这些是第五章讨论的问题。第六章同其前后两章关系密切。同上一章的关系是，从空间（领地）的维度转向时间。第七章讨论信任的社会功能，即为社会提供秩序。第八章是比较中西早期城市化过程中民间组织形式上的差异。第九章讨论秘密社会中的信任。第十章是从信任的角度讨论货币，讨论货币与普遍主义信任的关系，货币借货，以及货币系统中的风险。第十一章、第十二章讨论第二种系统信任——专家系统。《信任论》对信任理论的建构大致如上。第十三章从理论走回现实。

查尔斯·蒂利和西德尼·塔罗在本书中讨论了抗争政治的各种形式，包括革命、社会运动、宗教和伦理冲突、民族主义和公民权利以及跨国界运动等。它还为各种不同抗争的研究、比较和解释提供了一套分析工具和程序，阐释了抗争剧目和抗争表演的关系。作者还分析了历史上和当前的许多案例，包括二战后的波兰、巴以冲突、本·拉登问题和苏丹内战。他们向读者提供了一种社会和政治分析的清晰范式。

Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The authors of the classic Regulating The Poor assess the successes and failures of these two strategies as they examine, in this provocative study, four protest movements of lower-class groups in 20th century America:
-- The mobilization of the unemployed during the Great Depression that gave rise to the Workers' Alliance of America
-- The industrial strikes that resulted in the formation of the CIO
-- The Southern Civil Rights Movement
-- The movement of welfare recipients led by the National Welfare Rights Organization.

Americans today "know" that a majority of the population supports the death penalty, that half of all marriages end in divorce, and that four out of five prefer a particular brand of toothpaste. But remarkably, such data - now woven into our social fabric - became common currency only in the last century. Sarah Igo tells the story, for the first time, of how opinion polls, man-in-the-street interviews, sex surveys, community studies, and consumer research transformed the United States public.

Creating the Intellectual redefines how we understand relations between intellectuals and the Chinese socialist revolution of the last century. Under the Chinese Communist Party, “the intellectual” was first and foremost a widening classification of individuals based on Marxist thought. The party turned revolutionaries and otherwise ordinary people into subjects identified as usable but untrustworthy intellectuals, an identification that profoundly affected patterns of domination, interaction, and rupture within the revolutionary enterprise. Drawing on a wide range of data, Eddy U takes the reader on a journey that examines political discourses, revolutionary strategies, rural activities, urban registrations, workplace arrangements, organized protests, and theater productions. He lays out in colorful detail the formation of new identities, forms of organization, and associations in Chinese society. The outcome is a compelling picture of the mutual constitution of the intellectual and the Chinese socialist revolution, the legacy of which still affects ways of seeing, thinking, acting, and feeling in what is now a globalized China.

Originally published in German in 1935, this monograph anticipated solutions to problems of scientific progress, the truth of scientific fact and the role of error in science now associated with the work of Thomas Kuhn and others. Arguing that every scientific concept and theory--including his own--is culturally conditioned, Fleck was appreciably ahead of his time. And as Kuhn observes in his foreword, "Though much has occurred since its publication, it remains a brilliant and largely unexploited resource."
"To many scientists just as to many historians and philosophers of science facts are things that simply are the case: they are discovered through properly passive observation of natural reality. To such views Fleck replies that facts are invented, not discovered. Moreover, the appearance of scientific facts as discovered things is itself a social construction, a "made" thing. A work of transparent brilliance, one of the most significant contributions toward a thoroughly sociological account of scientific knowledge."--Steven Shapin, "Science"

From 9/11 to the Snowden leaks, stories about surveillance increasingly dominate the headlines. But surveillance is not only 'done to us' – it is something we do in everyday life. We submit to surveillance, believing we have nothing to hide. Or we try to protect our privacy or negotiate the terms under which others have access to our data. At the same time, we participate in surveillance in order to supervise children, monitor other road users, and safeguard our property. Social media allow us to keep tabs on others, as well as on ourselves. This is the culture of surveillance.
This important book explores the imaginaries and practices of everyday surveillance. Its main focus is not high-tech, organized surveillance operations but our varied, mundane experiences of surveillance that range from the casual and careless to the focused and intentional. It insists that it is time to stop using Orwellian metaphors and find ones suited to twenty-first-century surveillance — from 'The Circle' or 'Black Mirror.'
Surveillance culture, David Lyon argues, is not detached from the surveillance state, society and economy. It is informed by them. He reveals how the culture of surveillance may help to domesticate and naturalize surveillance of unwelcome kinds, and considers which kinds of surveillance might be fostered for the common good and human flourishing.

This book examines some crucial aspects of surveillance processes with a view to showing what constitutes them, why the growth of surveillance is accelerating and what is really at stake personally and politically. It scrutinizes individual surveillance systems - CCTV, biometrics, intelligent transportation systems, smart cards, on-line profiling - and discusses their implications for our future. Surveillance as Social Sorting is a fascinating contribution to a relatively new field - surveillance studies.

《国家建设与政府行为》分三个单元——即国家建设与治理模式、国家建设与资源配置、国家建设与社会管理，对中国的近现代的国家治理与政府行为进行了探讨。全书的十一篇专题论文均在经验资料分析、理论思路开拓、概念工具形成方面做出努力，试图在积累学术知识方面做出贡献。每个单元还邀请了在学术上颇有见地的学者进行了深入的评论。《国家建设与政府行为》的研究对关注中国国家建设与政府行为研究的社会学、经济学、政治学、管理学者来说，将有所助益。

《黑箱社会》内容简介：你是否想到，当你在上网娱乐、学习、浏览新闻或从事商业活动时，你就会无形中陷入一张数据采集的罗网，这张网的覆盖面之广你绝对难以想象。我们的经济和社会由高深莫测的数学程序来决定？
美国参议院的一份调查报告指出，仅仅是点击某一热门新闻网站的动作就会触发并激活350多个网络服务器。多数的关联行为（例如投放广告）不大可能构成危害，但它们通常会在用户的电脑中植入一个“cookie”软件，用以识别和跟踪访客，从而收集目标数据并获知用户的上网习惯。
在这个互联网时代，每一天，各类公司都会通过仔细检索、审视我们的工作习惯和互联网的使用把我们各种行为的细节连接整合在一起。这种整合起来的数据极其详细，甚至堪称对我们个人的入侵。但这些公司是如何将这些数据点联系在一起的，他们又是如何使用这些信息的？《黑箱社会》将告诉我们这一切是如何发生的。
隐秘的算法可以塑造（或破坏）信誉，也可以决定企业家的命运，甚至是摧毁整个经济体。这本书深入探讨了Google、亚马逊、Facebook、苹果等硅谷和华尔街的公司是如何运用这些运算法则的，以及作为我们个人应该如何在这个信息经济社会保护我们的隐私，以及确保我们的个人信息安全。
在大数据、互联网时代，你可能需要的是个人成功秘诀、商业制胜之道，但你更需要的是一个清醒的头脑。

With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains. The Quantified Self movement has emerged to promote 'self-knowledge through numbers'.
In this groundbreaking book Deborah Lupton critically analyses the social, cultural and political dimensions of contemporary self-tracking and identifies the concepts of selfhood and human embodiment and the value of the data that underpin them.
The book incorporates discussion of the consolations and frustrations of self-tracking, as well as about the proliferating ways in which people's personal data are now used beyond their private rationales. Lupton outlines how the information that is generated through self-tracking is taken up and repurposed for commercial, governmental, managerial and research purposes. In the relationship between personal data practices and big data politics, the implications of self-tracking are becoming ever more crucial.

With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an anthropology of science, shows us how much of modernity is actually a matter of faith. What does it mean to be modern? What difference does the scientific method make? The difference, Latour explains, is in our careful distinctions between nature and society, between human and thing, distinctions that our benighted ancestors, in their world of alchemy, astrology, and phrenology, never made. But alongside this purifying practice that defines modernity, there exists another seemingly contrary one: the construction of systems that mix politics, science, technology, and nature. The ozone debate is such a hybrid, in Latour's analysis, as are global warming, deforestation, even the idea of black holes. As these hybrids proliferate, the prospect of keeping nature and culture in their separate mental chambers becomes overwhelming--and rather than try, Latour suggests, we should rethink our distinctions, rethink the definition and constitution of modernity itself. His book offers a new explanation of science that finally recognizes the connections between nature and culture--and so, between our culture and others, past and present. Nothing short of a reworking of our mental landscape. "We Have Never Been Modern" blurs the boundaries among science, the humanities, and the social sciences to enhance understanding on all sides. A summation of the work of one of the most influential and provocative interpreters of science, it aims at saving what is good and valuable in modernity and replacing the rest with a broader, fairer, and finer sense of possibility.

Science and technology have immense authority and influence in our society, yet their working remains little understood. The conventional perception of science in Western societies has been modified in recent years by the work of philosophers, sociologists and historians of science. In this book Bruno Latour brings together these different approaches to provide a lively and challenging analysis of science, demonstrating how social context and technical content are both essential to a proper understanding of scientific activity. Emphasizing that science can only be understood through its practice, the author examines science and technology in action: the role of scientific literature, the activities of laboratories, the institutional context of science in the modern world, and the means by which inventions and discoveries become accepted. From the study of scientific practice he develops an analysis of science as the building of networks. Throughout, Bruno Latour shows how a lively and realistic picture of science in action alters our conception of not only the natural sciences but also the social sciences and the sociology of knowledge in general. This stimulating book, drawing on a wealth of examples from a wide range of scientific activities, will interest all philosophers, sociologists and historians of science, scientists and engineers, and students of the philosophy of social science and the sociology of knowledge.

This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts," and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too expensive to change. The book is based on field work done by Bruno Latour in Roger Guillemin's laboratory at the Salk Institute and provides an important link between the sociology of modern sciences and laboratory studies in the history of science.

科学家如何工作？他们如何“发现”科学事实？为试图回答这些问题，法国著名科学社会学家布鲁诺·拉图尔以及英国社会学家史蒂夫·伍尔加深入到美国的一个神经内分泌学实验室并与那里的教授共度两年时光，对科学家进行观察，看他们如何选择课题和申请基金，如何从事研究和发表论文，如何评级评奖等等。作者以自然主义的方式研究科学，特别探讨了科学的社会制约因素，触及人性、社会、理性和知识这些更大的问题，从一个全新的视角对科学事实的建构做了独到的诠释。本书是科学社会学也是国外社会学研究的前沿领域SSK的经典之作。
以色列著名哲学家约瑟夫·阿伽西曾说：“科学是现代文化的一个内在组成部分。在某些意义上孤立地看待科学也情有可原，但是没有注意到孤立的图景可能歪曲图景本身，这将导致混乱。而被扭曲的图景会产生误导作用。” 的确，在科学研究日益精细化的今天，孤立、片面地看待科学以及与之相关的问题早已经与这时代格格不入了。因此，法国著名科学哲学家布鲁诺·拉图尔提出：“我们调查研究的目的是开辟一条不同的途径：走近科学，绕过科学家们的说法去熟悉事实的产生，然后，返回自己的家，用一种不属于分析语言的元语言来分析研究者所做的事。总之，重要的是去做所有人类文化学志学者们所做的事，并把人文科学通常的义务论用于科学:使自己熟悉一个领域，并保持独立和距离。”在库恩之后，科学论的视角发生了转换：“我们都关心获得知识的动态过程，更甚关心科学成品的逻辑结构 ”，“要分析科学知识的发展就必须考虑科学的实际活动方式 ”。当然，在这一被欧洲科学社会学注重的科学“实质性理论 ”(即科学知识过程)的形成过程中，巴黎学派的拉图尔功不可没。原因是：一方面，他把对科学知识的研究从“社会建构 ”转向了“科学实践 ”，提出了“实验室生活”、“科学事实观”、“黑箱论”、“行动者网络”等一系列科学事实;另一方面，他在科学实践中充分借用了人类学学科独有的“整体观 ”、“参与式观察 ”、“对他者的研究”、“文化相对论”等一系列研究原则和方法，使这些科学事实变得更具“真实性”和“可靠性”，在欧洲科学哲学研究中掀起了一股“实验室研究风潮”。

Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'. Bruno Latour's contention is that the word 'social' as used by Social Scientists has become laden with assumptions to the point where it has become a misnomer. When the adjective is applied to a phenomenon, it is used to indicate a stabilized state of affairs, a bundle of ties that in due course may be used to account for another phenomenon. Latour also finds the word used as if it described a type of material, in a comparable way to an adjective such as 'wooden' or 'steely'. Rather than simply indicating what is already assembled together, it is now used in a way that makes assumptions about the nature of what is assembled. It has become a word that designates two distinct things: a process of assembling: and a type of material, distinct from others. Latour shows why 'the social' cannot be thought of as a kind of material or domain, and disputes attempts to provide a 'social explanation' of other states of affairs. While these attempts have been productive (and probably necessary) in the past, the very success of the social sciences mean that they are largely no longer so. At the present stage it is no longer possible to inspect the precise constituents entering the social domain. Latour returns to the original meaning of 'the social' to redefine the notion and allow it to trace connections again. It will then be possible to resume the traditional goal of the social sciences, but using more refined tools. Drawing on his extensive work examining the 'assemblages' of nature, Latour finds it necessary to scrutinize thoroughly the exact content of what is assembled under the umbrella of Society. This approach, a 'sociology of associations' has become known as Actor-Network-Theory, and this book is an essential introduction both for those seeking to understand Actor-Network-Theory, or the ideas of one of its most influential proponents.

We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives--where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insurance--are being made not by humans, but by machines. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone is judged according to the same rules.
But as mathematician and data scientist Cathy O'Neil reveals, the mathematical models being used today are unregulated and uncontestable, even when they're wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination--propping up the lucky, punishing the downtrodden, and undermining our democracy in the process.

From Central District Seattle to Harlem to Holly Springs, Black people have built a dynamic network of cities and towns where Black culture is maintained, created, and defended. But imagine—what if current maps of Black life are wrong? Chocolate Cities offers a refreshing and persuasive rendering of the United States—a “Black map” that more accurately reflects the lived experiences and the future of Black life in America. Drawing on film, fiction, music, and oral history, Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson trace the Black American experience of race, place, and liberation, mapping it from Emancipation to now. As the United States moves toward a majority minority society, Chocolate Cities provides a provocative, broad, and necessary assessment of how racial and ethnic minorities make and change America’s social, economic, and political landscape.

数据科学家凯西•奥尼尔认为，我们应该警惕不断渗透和深入我们生活的数学模型——它们的存在，很有可能威胁到我们的社会结构。
我们生活在一个依赖“算法”的时代，它对我们生活的影响越来越大，我们去哪里上学，我是不是应该贷款买车，我们应该花多少钱来买健康保险，这些都不是由人来决定的，而是由大数据模型来决定的。从理论上来说，这一模型应该让社会更加公平，每一个人的衡量标准都是一样的，偏见是不存在的。
但是，正如凯西•奥尼尔书里所揭示的那样，事实并非如此。我们今天所使用的这些数学模型是不透明的、未经调节的、极富争议的，有的甚至还是错误的。最糟糕的是，数学模型和大数据算法加剧了偏见与不公。例如，一个贫困学生想申请贷款交付学费，但是银行大数据算法根据他居住地的邮政编码判断将钱带给他存在风险，因此，拒绝给他提供贷款。他因此失去了受教育的机会，而这个机会可能帮助他摆脱贫困。大数据算法做的常常只是锦上添花的事儿，有时甚至是落井下石。
通过个案追踪，凯西•奥尼尔揭示了大数据是如何影响我们将来的，它不仅影响着个人，也影响着整个社会。这些数据评价着我们的老师、学生，筛选着我们的简历，审核着我们的贷款资格，衡量着员工的工作态度，监视着投票者，监控着我们的健康。
凯西•奥尼尔呼吁数据模型的创造者们要对算法负责，政策的制定者及执行者们在使用这一威力极大的“武器”前应该更加慎重。最后，作者指出，大数据几乎掌控着我们的生活，我们应该增加对它的了解。这本书相当的重要，它让我们有能力去问一些十分尖锐的问题，帮助我们了解事实的真相，提出需要改变的地方，探索更好的生活。
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 案例丰富，内容兼具深度与话题性
未来20年，算法和大数据将席卷世界，接管我们的生活、社会和经济。我们生活中的很多方面都将落入自动化的数据分析之下。确保算法和大数据的公平性将是一项重大的任务，数据伦理的价值和意义将不断凸显出来。在作者看来，大数据犹如一个黑盒，规模、伤害和隐秘共存，她在书中引用了大量发生在美国当下的、基于大数据和算法的、改变个人生活的案例，并对影响这些城市生活经验的算法做了特别的观察和研究。作者认为，数据和算法的关系就像枪械和军火，数据没有价值观，是中立的，但来自人类行为的输入，难免隐含偏向，而算法创造的数据又对人类行为产生反作用，从而导致更多的不公。凯西在书中指出：算法模型一旦运转，执法行为就会增多，产生的新数据又会进一步证明加强执法的必要性。形象地说，就是哪里“前科”越多，哪里就越受算法“关照”，最终形成一个失真，甚至有害的回馈环路。这个观点也正是近来Facebook干预美国大选，国内很多专家学者热议“今日头条”推送模式的核心所在。
 权威作者的深刻洞见
本书作者是哈佛大学的数学博士，研究方向是数论和代数几何，毕业之后在麻省理工学院执教，并在互联网公司做过很长时间的数据科学家，如今致力于教育和媒体行业的数据知识普及工作，因此，这并不是一本传统意义上唱衰大数据的书，相反，作者希望让更多的人通过了解大数据、了解算法，反思模型，以及通过政府和相关机构的合理监管，不断改善各类设计评价体系，让更多的人受益，维护社会的公平与民主。
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Since the mid-2000s, public opinion and debate in China have become increasingly common and consequential, despite the ongoing censorship of speech and regulation of civil society. How did this happen? In The Contentious Public Sphere, Ya-Wen Lei shows how the Chinese state drew on law, the media, and the Internet to further an authoritarian project of modernization, but in so doing, inadvertently created a nationwide public sphere in China—one the state must now endeavor to control. Lei examines the influence this unruly sphere has had on Chinese politics and the ways that the state has responded.
Using interviews, newspaper articles, online texts, official documents, and national surveys, Lei shows that the development of the public sphere in China has provided an unprecedented forum for citizens to influence the public agenda, demand accountability from the government, and organize around the concepts of law and rights. She demonstrates how citizens came to understand themselves as legal subjects, how legal and media professionals began to collaborate in unexpected ways, and how existing conditions of political and economic fragmentation created unintended opportunities for political critique, particularly with the rise of the Internet. The emergence of this public sphere—and its uncertain future—is a pressing issue with important implications for the political prospects of the Chinese people.
Investigating how individuals learn to use public discourse to influence politics, The Contentious Public Sphere offers new possibilities for thinking about the transformation of state-society relations.