This lively study explores how social and economic changes to Chinese society create new cultural values and forms of inequality. Amy Hanser examines changes to a particular set of jobs—service work, in this case salesclerk work—and the nature of the social interactions involved. It argues that a new "structure of entitlement," which makes elite groups feel more entitled to public forms of respect and social esteem, is constructed in settings like new, luxury department stores. The book not only shows how this change involves increasingly unequal relations between clerks and customers, but also demonstrates how marketplaces have become sites where social differences—and inequalities—are recognized and justified. The study's importance lies in its attention to ethnographic detail, its application of cultural theories of inequality to China, and its contribution to our understanding of contemporary China. Unlike other studies of inequality in urban China, this book takes a unique setting—the marketplace and the interactions between customers and salespeople—and a unique approach—the author herself worked as a salesclerk in three settings.

《文化与权力》是在西方社会学界，特别是布尔迪厄研究领域享有盛誉的著作。布尔迪厄是当今世界最具影响力的社会理论家之一，他的著作对于20世纪90年代以来的汉语学界产生着越来越大的影响。但是对于不熟悉法国思想文化语境的中国学者而言，解读布尔迪厄却不是一件容易的事情。作为对布尔迪厄著作的综合的，批判性的检讨，本书围绕布尔迪厄理论的一个核心主题——文化与权力之间的关系展开，对布尔迪厄社会学的基本概念进行了清楚的界定与梳理，并通过详细的材料令人信眼地呈现了布尔迪厄的社会理论的学术渊源，分析了布尔迪厄如何综合了从涂尔干、马克思、韦伯以来的西方社会学理论和实践，并受到萨特、列维-斯特劳斯和阿尔都塞等思想家的影响。

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

No judgement of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the modern world. France's leading sociologist focusses here on the French bourgeoisie, its tastes and preferences. Distinction is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind. In the course of everyday life people constantly choose between what they find aesthetically pleasing and what they consider tacky, merely trendy, or ugly. Bourdicu bases his study on surveys that took into account the multitude of social factors that play a part in a Frenchperson's choice of clothing, furniture, leisure activities, dinner menus for guests, and many other matters of taste. What emerges from his analysis is that social snobbery is everywhere in the bourgeois world. The different aesthetic choices people make are all distinctions-that is, choices made in opposition to those made by other classes. Taste is not pure. Bourdieu finds a world of social meaning in the decision to order bouillabaisse, in our contemporary cult of thinness, in the "California sports" such as jogging and cross-country skiing. The social world, he argues, functions simultaneously as a system of power relations and as a symbolic system in which minute distinctions of taste become the basis for social judgement. The topic of Bourdieu's book is a fascinating one: the strategies of social pretension are always curiously engaging. But the book is more than fascinating. It is a major contribution to current debates on the theory of culture and a challenge to the major theoretical schools in contemporary sociology.

With "Inclusion", Steven Epstein argues that strategies to achieve diversity in medical research mask deeper problems, ones that might require a different approach and different solutions. Formal concern with this issue, Epstein shows, is a fairly recent phenomenon. Until the mid-1980s, scientists often studied groups of white, middle-aged men - and assumed that conclusions drawn from studying them would apply to the rest of the population. But struggles involving advocacy groups, experts, and Congress led to reforms that forced researchers to diversify the population from which they drew for clinical research. While the prominence of these inclusive practices has offered hope to traditionally undeserved groups, Epstein argues that it has drawn attention away from the tremendous inequalities in health that are rooted not in biology but in society.

Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is.

In 2007, Texas governor Rick Perry issued an executive order requiring that all females entering sixth grade be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV), igniting national debate that echoed arguments heard across the globe over public policy, sexual health, and the politics of vaccination. Three Shots at Prevention explores the contentious disputes surrounding the controversial vaccine intended to protect against HPV, the most common sexually transmitted infection. When the HPV vaccine first came to the market in 2006, religious conservatives decried the government's approval of the vaccine as implicitly sanctioning teen sex and encouraging promiscuity while advocates applauded its potential to prevent 4,000 cervical cancer deaths in the United States each year. Families worried that laws requiring vaccination reached too far into their private lives. Public health officials wrestled with concerns over whether the drug was too new to be required and whether opposition to it could endanger support for other, widely accepted vaccinations. Many people questioned the aggressive marketing campaigns of the vaccine's creator, Merck & Co. And, since HPV causes cancers of the cervix, vulva, vagina, penis, and anus, why was the vaccine recommended only for females? What did this reveal about gender and sexual politics in the United States? With hundreds of thousands of HPV-related cancer deaths worldwide, how did similar national debates in Europe and the developing world shape the global possibilities of cancer prevention? This volume provides insight into the deep moral, ethical, and scientific questions that must be addressed when sexual and social politics confront public health initiatives in the United States and around the world.

在本书中，福柯为我们勾勒出了“不正常的”人的谱系。他认为“不正常的人”有三个源头，他们由历史上的三种人转变而来：一是“畸形人”，它不是指生理上有缺陷的人，而是对法律构成了障碍，使法律陷入困境的案例；二是“需要改造的人”，即某些桀骜不驯者，不服从管教，拒绝纪律的要求，等等；三是“手淫的儿童”，福柯认为，应从身体快乐原则出发，批判压抑理论，并将矛头指向对儿童的性进行干预的权力系统。

This book brings together some of the most exciting, original and cuttingedge work being conducted on contemporary queer China. The volume includes original essays by some of the most prolific and central queer activists and artists in the PRC, placing their writing alongside work by emergent and established scholars from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds. The book offers unique perspectives by presenting primary accounts of the creative and multi-faceted strategies that activists and community organizers have developed in their various activities. The volume also presents rich, empirical evidence of every-day queer lives across China, offering a unique record not only of cosmopolitan community and activist perspectives but also of voices and experiences from a broad range of locations and identifications. As a whole it offers invaluable insights into sexual and gender diversity in China today. Queer/Tongzhi China thus breathes as it speaks, providing through its diverse approaches a different understanding of queer China than standard mono-ethnographies or social-scientific documentaries.

《性爱十年:全国大学生性行为的追踪调查》内容简介：从1991年到2001年，作者对北京及全国大学生关系性爱问题进行过四次调查，占有的资料是相当丰富和全面的；作者对材料的研究和分析深刻、有见地。十年来，中国大学生的性行为究竟发生了什么变化？社会传媒有各种各样的传闻，社会舆论有各种各样的说法。究竟谁更科学、更具权威性？《性爱十年:全国大学生性行为的追踪调查》用事实作出了解释。
读者对象：各级政府教育部门的工作人员和领导干部，各高校领导干部和工作人员，高等教育、社会学、心理学专业师生和研究者，有兴趣的大中专学业及家长。

Madness & Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, by Michel Foucault, is an examination of the ideas, practices, institutions, art & literature relating to madness in Western history. It's an abridged English edition of Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique, originally published in 1961 as Folie et déraison. Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique. A full translation, The History of Madness, was published by Routledge in 6/2006. This was his 1st major book, written while Director of the Maison de France in Sweden.
This history begins in the Middle Ages, noting the social & physical exclusion of lepers. It argues that with the gradual disappearance of leprosy, madness came to occupy this excluded position. The ship of fools in the 15th century is a literary version of one such exclusionary practice, the practice of sending mad people away in boats. However, during the Renaissance, madness was regarded as a common phenomenon because humans couldn't attain Divine Reason. As Cervantes' Don Quixote, all humans are weak to desires & dissimulation. Therefore, the insane, understood as those who had come too close to God's Reason, were accepted in the middle of society. It isn't before the 17th century, in a movement famously called the Great Confinement, that unreasonable people systematically were institutionalized. In the 18th century, the mad came to be seen as having lost what made them human & become animalistic & treated as such. It isn't before 19th century that madness was regarded as an illness to be cured.
Foucault wasn't talking about medical institutions designed specifically for the insane but about the creation of houses of confinement for social outsiders, including not only the insane but also vagrants, the poor & orphans, & what effect those houses of confinement had on the insane & perceptions of madness in the West. He demonstrates that while confinement of social outcastes was a generally European phenomenon, it had a unique development in France & distinct developments in other countries such as Germany & England.
Foucault also argues that madness during the Renaissance had the power to signify the limits of social order & to point to a deeper truth. This was silenced by Enlightened Reason. He also examines the rise of modern scientific & humanitarian treatment of the insane, notably at the hands of Philippe Pinel & Samuel Tuke. He claims these modern treatments were no less controlling than previous methods. Tuke's country retreat for the mad consisted of punishing them until they gave up their commitment to madness. Similarly, Pinel's treatment of the mad amounted to an extended aversion therapy, including such treatments as cold showers & straitjackets. This treatment amounted to repeated brutality until the pattern of judgment & punishment was internalized by the patient.

《中国高校哲学社会科学发展报告(1978-2008):社会学》以我国高等院校社会学学科发展和学术研究为主要分析材料，较为系统地回顾和总结了高校社会学近30年来所取得的主要成就和发展经验。全书力图以现代化过程、社会制度与社会结构变迁、市场化过程，以及重大社会现实问题的涌现为线索，根据中国社会学面对这些重大现实变革而产生的重要学术议题，有时间顺序地叙说本学科的学术发展历程，以展现社会学研究与重大社会变迁之间所具有的本质性关联特征。
全书写作按照总一分一总的结构安排进行。第一章 “总论”简略地回顾了社会学在中国发展的曲折历程，同时更主要地以“恢复、重建”以来的高校社会学发展历史为重点，围绕学科体系的确立和发展，就学科建设、人才培养、学科知识体系、学术建设以及重要的学术成就进行概括性讨论。
分述部分是全书的主体。本部分突出以“问题”为中心，以学术发展为主线，按学科框架以及重要学术议题分专题回顾。内容包括学科框架内的重要二级学科发展，重大学术问题、重要的学术争论、重大事件、标志性成果及理论创新等。本部分划分为基础性分支学科和专题性应用研究两个相对独立的方面。基础性分支学科包括社会学理论、社会学方法、人口学、社会工作、社会心理学、农村社会学、城市社会学和组织社会学等八章内容。这些社会学分支学科既具有相对广泛的基础性意义，又具有相对独立的研究领域。就30年来社会学对转型期重要社会现实问题的研究所进行的专题性回顾，主要体现在贫困问题、社会分层问题、农民工问题、劳动力市场、社会网络与社会资本、社区、家庭社会学、户籍制度、社会政策和健康问题等十章中。
最后一章“社会学发展的经验、问题与展望”则以分述内容为基础概括性地表达了高校社会学近30年发展的基本经验和主要问题、困境，并就未来高校社会学领域可能取得的几个突破性领域作了一定的预测。
《中国高校哲学社会科学发展报告:1978-2008社会学》的附录部分主要收集了两方面的信息。附录1汇集了全国高等学校中的社会学和社会工作的系、所、院名录和地址信息；附录2是大事记，辑录了1979-2007年问内地高等院校中的社会学主要事件。

这本著作是一个遵循芝加哥学派城市研究的传统，结合当代性别研究和社会运动的城市民族志，选择的视角是一个中国社会分化剧烈，全球化和本土化激烈碰撞的背景下一个都市亚文化社区的形成和变迁。全书是围绕“公开”来展开的，包括三层逐步推进的涵义：（1)公开一个被边缘的性别身份；（2）寻求和拓展公共空间；（3）参与公共领域和市民社会的构建。关于成都同志亚文化社区的研究，提供了一个非常有趣而独特的角度去理解中国社会的深刻变化。

《与本科生谈:论文与治学》分为八讲，所讲授的内容是郑也夫教授几十年来读书、写作、做学问的心得体会，行文风格类似讲座，感情真挚，字字珠玑，发人深省，是一味以做学问为志业、为乐趣的“老学者”向青年学子的传道、授业和解惑。

本书以时代与社会思想发展为逻辑线索，对从先秦至20世纪初中国历代思想家的社会思想作了系统的介绍与评价，使学生或一般读者能系统地了解中国社会思想史产生和发展的总体线索、基本内容。该书充分体现了作为社会学核心课教材的要求，重点突出了中国社会思想与西方社会思想的不同特点，并充分反映了本学科的最新研究成果。该书线索清晰、结构完整，内容全面、系统，史料丰富。

《皈信同化叠合身份认同:北美华人基督徒研究》主要内容：尽管预计在方法论、理论积累和自身的知识储备等方面都会遇到诸多困难，但是我深知我必须选择的课题就是研究北美华人基督徒。考虑到美国华人中基督徒的较大比例以及与其他理论研究的相关性，对美国华人基督徒的实证研究是早该进行的。然而，对美国华人基督徒问题的学术研究几乎一片空白。况且，
在理论方而，这些问题对于研究移民同化、宗教皈信、散居国外华人的身份认同与建构以及少数民族研究等方面也是非常有价值的。
此项社会学研究的核心是在华人移民教会内人们的身份认同与建构问题。我期望把读者带进一个典型的华人移民教会，考察他们的象征符号(symbols)、话语系统(discourses)以及行为，并用民族志的深描法与社会学的分析来探究它们不同层次的含义。

《北大清华人大社会学硕士论文选编(2012)》是提供给当下同学们的一个参照，一种激励。它不可能是大众的，但其发行的渠道和规模，足以承担“参照和激励”的功能。每年它折价直销到社会学院系2000本以上。如此十年，应该是走进社会学师生心中了。

目前，在国内有关外国社会学理论的教材很难买到，不能满足西方社会学理论教学的需要。为了更好地满足教学需要，我们按时问顺序将西方社会学理论分为三编介绍给学生和读者。第一编：古典社会学理论；第二编：现代社会学理论；第三编：社会学理论的新发展。本着“厚今薄古”的原则，现当代社会学理论部分占全书内容的三分之二以上。
为了展现西方社会学理论发展的新特点，我们在古典部分设立了“社会学古典时期的理解问题”一章，目的是让学生进一步了解“理解社会学”的本质特征。

《社会分工论》是法国社会学家涂尔干1893年的博士论文，是其开山之作。一开始他就显示了他反对单一的功利主义思维的立场，他指出社会是多元的，是由种种矛盾的部分组成的，是要适应相互矛盾的种种需要的，必须有一种限定与平衡。他选取的题目是一个经济学的对象，但他却要从其中找出非经济的内核来。这《社会分工论》的中心思想就是，劳动分工并不是纯粹经济现象。在这部著作中，涂尔干既提出了“社会团结”、“集体意识”、“功能”、“社会容量”、“道德密度”以及“社会分化与社会整合”这些后来一直为社会学界所沿用、修正和争论的概念‘也通过对“机械团结”与“有机团结”、“环节社会”与“分化社会”以及“压制性制裁”与“恢复性制裁”的纵向二元划分，探讨了历史演进的基本规律。概言之，涂尔干的社会学主义之基本立场在《社会分工论》已初现端倪：一切存在与现象的根源，皆为“社会”。

本书中，周雪光教授以组织研究的诸种学术问题为导向，系统阐述了当今海外学术界影响至深的诸学术流派，如制度主义学派、交易成本学派、网络分析学派等对若干基本的组织现象的研究和看法，梳理了经济学、社会学和心理学在组织问题上思想交锋的焦点所在，并结合海内外大量组织现象的实例分析，指出了组织社会学研究的努力方向，体现出作者深厚的学术功力和犀利的学术眼光，读来令人茅塞顿开。