The late 1960s are remembered today as the last time wholesale social upheaval shook Europe and the United States. College students during that tumultuous period - epitomized by the events of May 1968 - were as permanently marked in their worldviews as their parents had been by the depression and World War II. Sociology was at the center of these events, and it changed decisively because of them. "The Disobedient Generation" collects newly written autobiographies by an international cross-section of well-known sociologists, all of them "children of the '60s." It illuminates the human experience of living through that decade as apprentice scholars and activists, encountering the issues of class, race, the establishment, the decline of traditional religion, feminism, war, and the sexual revolution. In each case the interlinked crises of young adulthood, rapid change, and nascent professional careers shaped this generation's private and public selves. This is an intensely personal collective portrait of a generation in a time of struggle.

本书由作者多年在芝加哥大学、爱尔兰根－纽伦堡大学、柏林自由大学、哥廷根大学等美国及欧洲各大学教授社会学课程的讲稿整理成册，全面介绍了第二次世界大战结束后，德国、法国、美国、英国的社会学领域的新进展，包括帕森斯的规范论功能主义、新功利主义、冲突社会学、哈贝马斯的沟通行动理论、卢曼的功能论、吉登斯的结构化理论、结构主义与后结构主义、布迪厄的文化社会学、法国的反结构主义、女性主义社会理论、新实用主义等内容。 在本书中，作者不仅打破了社会学理论研究的“美国中心主义”视角，建立了一个更为全面的现代西方社会理论框架，而且还令中国读者对第二次世界大战以来西方社会理论的发展及其丰富性有一个更全面的了解，并对西方学者自身在社会理论解读视角方面的多样性有一个切身的体会。

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

#美国社会学会杰出职业生涯奖得主经典之作，博采众学科之长，揭示社会转型的本质！ — 内容简介 — 小威廉·休厄尔以兼顾历史学、社会学和人类学的思考著称。《历史的逻辑》认为，只有把历史学家对时间性的复杂理解与社会学家深刻的理论思考结合起来，才能催生出令人满意的社会理论。在本书中，他透露了这种结合可能是怎样的形态，也展现了如此结合能为哪些议题提供指引，以及此举将如何影响历史学和社会学这两个不同的学科。本书于2008年荣获美国社会学学会理论分会杰出理论图书奖。 — 编辑推荐 — 作为美国社会学会比较历史社会学分会首位杰出职业生涯奖得主，作者小威廉·休厄尔在职业生涯中亲身经历了新社会史运动、文化转向、语言学转向等学界重大事件，亦在诸多社会科学学科之间深耕、立著，试图建立不同学科之间的有效对话，以对学术界及全球化和新自由主义的现实有所反思。本书就是休厄尔的这种跨学科身份和关怀的最佳体现。本书不仅开启了历史学、社会学、人类学等学科间的前沿理论对话，更以众多研究实例展示了这种学科“破壁”的可能性。休厄尔在本书中提出的“三种时间性”，更是成为今天历史学与社会学的跨学科产物——历史社会学的理论指引。 — 学者评论 — 《历史的逻辑》发起了历史学家和社会学家关于社会理论的讨论，展现了历史学家对于当前的理论讨论所能发挥的重要贡献。由当下最具影响力、最广受尊敬的历史学家著成的这本书，将会成为我们时代的思想史的一部分。 ——米谢勒·拉蒙，哈佛大学社会学教授、美国社会学学会前任主席 根据小威廉·休厄尔的说法，如果“事件”是“关键性地转变了结构的日常发生的、数量相对稀少的子集”，那么《历史的逻辑》的问世无疑是一个事件。他对不同社会科学专业的知识和文化的惊人涉猎，使他能建立新颖而卓越的连接。历史学与社会理论的关系由此进入新的阶段。 ——谢里·奥特纳，加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校人类学教授 这无疑是一部杰出的作品。《历史的逻辑》将为未来讨论社会转型的本质、历史学与社会科学间的关系设定新的理论讨论议程。 ——基思·贝克，斯坦福大学历史学教授 任何一门社会科学，都需要在历史的深度内充分发挥社会学的想象力，在理论的对话中构筑出一个好故事。 史学出身的小威廉·休厄尔，生长于结构功能论与历史社会学并生的浪潮下，他对事件与结构的独到解析，亦能促使我们反思中国本土语境中的个人、关系与社会。《历史的逻辑》一书告诉我们，只有历史学家们打破缄默，彻底审视并且重整从社会科学借鉴的理论，我们才能发展出历史学和社会科学共同追求的、洞悉这个时刻变动的世界的学说。 ——严飞，清华大学社会学教授 对这本书的最佳肯定，也许来自作者休厄尔荣获的美国社会学学会比较历史社会学分会首次颁发的杰出职业生涯奖（2020年）。休厄尔对社会、结构、文化、事件和时间性等基础概念的解答，为社会学家带来了基于历史学的不同思考。读者既能看到休厄尔以抽丝剥茧的方式解读理论名著，又能看到他以哲学人类学的方式将理论难题一步步展开为日用实践，还能读到他从历史经验作品中归纳与反思理论。这本书是多面的、综合的，也是多彩的，值得对历史学、社会学、人类学等议题有兴趣的读者品读。 ——孙宇凡，公众号“Sociological理论大缸”创办人

潛心四十餘載，末代武士的關鍵一戰 一九七〇年代，葉啟政教授回台任教，學術關懷轉向理論性思考，但同時也保留了主流的以實證主義為導向的「經驗實徵」研究這條「深層」軸線。《從因果到機制》即是他對此深層軸線沉思四十年的積累成果。在這部深具開創性的作品中，葉教授徹底反思了「確立因果關係」這個科學探討的核心課題。 在葉教授的思路裡，一招一式都在表達一個基本立場：尊重各種研究策略，但絕無法供奉某種特定的研究策略是追求「真理」的唯一途徑。固然我們經常選擇某種「靜態」的特定狀態來作為貫連因果關係的「變項」，但這樣的「靜態」模樣只是用來勾勒整個現象的起始概念。事實上，起點充其量只是提供我們如此漫遊的意義，重點更在於尋找概念的分岔點。這正是葉教授不斷檢討實證主義主導下「經驗實徵」研究策略所具有的特性及其侷限的基本緣由。 批判經驗實徵，既破且立的全新視野 葉教授的前一部作品《實證的迷思》致力於破除以實證主義為主導的「典範迷思」，而在《從因果到機制》中，葉教授更上層樓，深入探討「因果」與「機制」此二論點如何架設、分殊、轉化與圓成的問題。 在過去，學者們力主採取「變項」這類概念來表徵現象的因果關係。這樣的表達方式卻有著基本缺陷，其中最為根本的莫過於，從表徵現象認定的因果關係可能是虛假的，經常無法有效處理「混淆因子」問題。針對此一難題，最典型的化解方法即是善用「機制」概念來補救。「機制」提供一套解釋項和被解釋項之間，相互連串且接續的因果聯繫。在此同時，機制卻也涉及到具因果鏈性質的「中介變項」問題。更貼切地來說，這乃關乎「機制」作為一種中介過程的問題了。 葉教授進一步以分析社會學和批判實在論作為分析對象，檢討他們各就不同立場如何處理「機制」這一概念。葉教授認識到，機制乃是一種具引信促發作用的解釋性思維理路。「機制」的內涵理法必然是具有一定的穩定性，但隨時空條件的更移卻可能轉變。這意味著，人作為具有能動性的行動者，在當下時空的思考與決定，對事態的發展，是具有決定性的關鍵因素。 最後，葉教授認為，我們可以採行Max Weber的「理念型」概念來處理「機制」作為因果權（能）力的表現。基本上，以機制為基礎的因果解釋，乃是以具選擇親近性的方式來描繪因果過程，而非窮盡所有的可能情況。其所論述的因果，其實是人們透過經驗所形塑出的一種心靈圖像，因此具有區域性與選擇性，始終受特定社會條件隨時制約著，易言之，世間並無一成不變的因果「真理」。

是否有不同的方式來教與學社會學？如何讓學生在實做中同時習得研究的技法與精湛的論點？如何培養學生提出兼具本地特色與理論意涵的問題？是否可能將社會學本身的信念融入社會學的教學之中？ 田野工作者以自身當做探索社會生活的媒介，觸動其中的關鍵機制，這是以身為度。因此，田野工作不僅僅蒐集與創造資料，同時也切磋與創新理論、反省社會學知識的認識論、以及呈現各種生命情調相互激盪的存在論。在教學上，師生以各自的研究與經驗為例交流，也是以身為度。 本書提供八個田野工作的實例（一個老師，七個學生）以及一篇對田野工作教學的考察與反省。這些實例採取了參與實作、參與觀察、深度訪談等技法，處理了資本主義的在地呈現、成人、成家、立業、上班、購物與飲食等課題。整本書兼具在地的觸感與理論的意涵，同時也呈現了學術與生命的交融，這是深刻與原創的學術研究的前提。 本書不只是在討論「田野工作」，同時也觸及了「如何做深刻的社會分析」。誠摯邀請你－－敬愛的讀者－－一起經歷這個生猛活潑、認真踏實、結合了個人傳記與集體關懷的台灣社會探險之旅！

Social scientists, whether earnest graduate students or tenured faculty members, clearly know the rules that govern good writing. But for some reason they choose to ignore those guidelines and churn out turgid, pompous, and obscure prose. Distinguished sociologist Howard S. Becker, true to his calling, looks for an explanation for this bizarre behavior not in the psyches of his colleagues but in the structure of his profession. In this highly personal and inspirational volume he considers academic writing as a social activity. Both the means and the reasons for writing a thesis or article or book are socially structured by the organization of graduate study, the requirements for publication, and the conditions for promotion, and the pressures arising from these situations create the writing style so often lampooned and lamented. Drawing on his thirty-five years' experience as a researcher, writer, and teacher, Becker exposes the foibles of the academic profession to the light of sociological analysis and gentle humor. He also offers eminently useful suggestions for ways to make social scientists better and more productive writers. Among the topics discussed are how to overcome the paralyzing fears of chaos and ridicule that lead to writer's block; how to rewrite and revise, again and again; how to adopt a persona compatible with lucid prose; how to deal with that academic bugaboo, "the literature." There is also a chapter by Pamela Richards on the personal and professional risks involved in scholarly writing. In recounting his own trials and errors Becker offers his readers not a model to be slavishly imitated but an example to inspire. Throughout, his focus is on the elusive work habits that contribute to good writing, not the more easily learned rules of grammar and punctuation. Although his examples are drawn from sociological literature, his conclusions apply to all fields of social science, and indeed to all areas of scholarly endeavor. The message is clear: you don't have to write like a social scientist to be one.

提到方便，台灣民眾腦海中第一個浮現的絕對是便利商店。台灣超商的便利程度不僅讓台灣人滿意，也讓外國人嘖嘖稱奇、大為讚賞。 但如此便利的生活，是值得驕傲的台灣之光嗎？還是台灣社會的隱憂？ 便利商店從1970年代引進台灣，從起初的乏人問津，如今已經成為民眾不可或缺的商店。 2020年代的台灣超商店員，必須熟記三、四千種商品的位置，瞭解熱狗、關東煮、地瓜、咖啡、霜淇淋怎麼製作，還要提供千百種繳費服務，更要記得客人的喜好和各種商品的暱稱；貨架空了要趕快補貨、地板髒了也要盡快打掃乾淨。 隨著台灣超商的不斷進化，超商店員要做的事情越來越多，人們因此稱讚店員很萬能，但這麼萬能的職業，究竟是怎麼形成的？ 作者以長年在超商打工的田野觀察，運用社會學的觀點，解析超商運作，揭露店員何以萬能的秘密。從以下面向揭露萬能店員的現象 1.超商的設計，如何讓店員必須同時做很多事？ 2.為了讓消費者感到便利，超商店員如何變得過勞？ 3.我們對於便利的無止盡要求，將會造成什麼社會代價？ 本書指出台灣的便利是廉價的便利，我們用很便宜的價格，獲得超級便利的生活，這些隱形的成本被攤提到每一位工作者身上，以至於我們從未察覺便利是有價的。 我們對於便利無止盡的要求，正吞噬著許多人的工作現場，讓他們陷於無邊無際的忙碌之中，包括我們自己。 我們不斷加班、不斷付出時間給工作，而這些工作往往是為了服務另一群人，因此下班後我們必須透過各種便利的消費，來彌補被工作剝奪的時間。 「下班時間壓榨別人，上班再等著被壓榨」 不僅是當代台灣勞工的常態，也是一道來自工作與生活的枷鎖，重重地銬住我們的雙腳，一步步侵蝕著我們的主體性。

http://www.sociologypress.com/books/interest/time_for_dying.htm This book is a sequel to “Awareness for Dying” and focuses on the temporal aspects of dying in hospitals. Dying takes varying amounts of time, from sudden to excessive lingering. The social psychological events that take place during dying as a temporal process given professional codes and training and hospital prescribed work are explored and woven into a theory of status passage. CONTENT Chapter 1 Dying trajectories Chapter 2 Sudden Death: A case of suicide Chapter 3 Initial definitions of the dying trajectory Chapter 4 Lingering trajectories: Institutional dying Chapter 5 Lingering trajectories: At home and in hospitals Chapter 6 The expected quick trajectory Chapter 7 The unexpected quick trajectory Chapter 8 Last weeks an days Chapter 9 Finding the dying trajectory Chapter 10 After death in the hospital Chapter 11 Time, structural processes and status passage Chapter 12 Improving the care of the dying Appendix

http://www.sociologypress.com/books/interest/awareness_of_dying.htm This is the first grounded theory book, now pub­lished in four languages. Its resounding suc­cess led to the seminal codification of classic grounded theory method­ology, in "Discovery of Grounded Theory”. At the time of the study, American physi­cians were quite reluctant to disclose impending death to their patients. The book addresses the social psychological problems of dying in hospitals when the patient knows and does not know, with varying degrees between, that he/she is dying. It focuses on the effects of interaction and tactics used by nurses in care of the dying patient within different awareness contests. CONTENT Part 1 Introduction 1 The problem of awareness of dying 2 Expectations of death: A problem in social definition Part II Types of Awareness Contexts 3 Closed awareness 4 Suspicion awareness: The contest for control 5 The ritual drama of mutual pretence 6 The ambiguities of open awareness 7 Discounting awareness Part III Problems of Awareness 8 Direct disclosure of terminality 9 The unaware family 10 The aware family 11 “Nothing more to do”: The problem of no recovery 12 “Nothing more to do”: The problem of comfort 13 Awareness and the nurse’s composure Part IV Conclusions 14 The practical use of awareness theory 15 Awareness and the study of social interaction Appendix Methods of Collection and Analysis

The author of this text traces the growth and development of major leagues in baseball, football, basketball, and hockey in the USA, and predicts fundamental changes as the majors pursue international expansion. He shows how every past expansion of sports publics has been accompanied by significant changes in the way sporting competition is organized. With each reorganization, the majors have created teams closer in ability, bringing repetition to competition across time, only to expand and energize the public's search for differences between teams and for events that disrupt the repetitive flow. Leifer's ideas have significant implications for the future of major league sports.

Summary How the blockchain—a system built on foundations of mutual mistrust—can become trustworthy. The blockchain entered the world on January 3, 2009, introducing an innovative new trust architecture: an environment in which users trust a system—for example, a shared ledger of information—without necessarily trusting any of its components. The cryptocurrency Bitcoin is the most famous implementation of the blockchain, but hundreds of other companies have been founded and billions of dollars invested in similar applications since Bitcoin's launch. Some see the blockchain as offering more opportunities for criminal behavior than benefits to society. In this book, Kevin Werbach shows how a technology resting on foundations of mutual mistrust can become trustworthy. The blockchain, built on open software and decentralized foundations that allow anyone to participate, seems like a threat to any form of regulation. In fact, Werbach argues, law and the blockchain need each other. Blockchain systems that ignore law and governance are likely to fail, or to become outlaw technologies irrelevant to the mainstream economy. That, Werbach cautions, would be a tragic waste of potential. If, however, we recognize the blockchain as a kind of legal technology that shapes behavior in new ways, it can be harnessed to create tremendous business and social value.

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★ 懂点社会学，走出混沌的日常，理解社会与人生 ★ 76位社会学巨擘×135个社会学核心概念×400幅超可爱漫画 上至学科奠基人奥古斯特·孔德、埃米尔·涂尔干、格奥尔格·齐美尔、马克斯·韦伯，下至当代中流砥柱安东尼·吉登斯、乔治·瑞泽尔、齐格蒙特·鲍曼——重要的社会思想 家超萌登场； 从炫耀性消费到文化资本，从社会失范到风险社会，从公共人的衰落到诸众的崛起——重要的社会学概念轻松get！ 想要洞悉习以为常的社会现象背后，隐藏着怎样的本质与规律？这本书画给你看！ ★ 清华大学副教授严飞、华中师范大学教授李钧鹏力荐！ 很多初次接触社会学的探索者，都很好奇社会学是什么、社会学有用吗、社会学会很难懂吗。其实社会学也可以很可爱。通过本书一幅幅通俗易懂的绘画图解，我们看到社会学从古典到现代的发展脉络，看到各个思想名家的经典社会学概念，以及这些概念的应用场景，让我们在莞尔一笑中，理解我们纷繁复杂的社会。我们只有理解社会，才可以更好地通过反身性的思考理解我们自己。 ——严飞，清华大学社会学系副教授，《穿透：像社会学家一样思考》作者 研读社会学经典，关键在于将高度抽象的理论表述与自己的日常生活体验结合起来。本书通过有趣的漫画将晦涩的理论形象化，大大降低了社会学的入门难度，即使是研习社会学多年的人，也能有所收获。我在拿到书之前并没有太高的期望，但从翻开第一页起就爱不释手，花了两个晚上心情愉悦地读完，一些此前半懂不懂的概念和理论也变得亲切起来。 ——李钧鹏，华中师范大学社会学院教授

Every night, somewhere in the world, three or four musicians will climb on stage together. Whether the gig is at a jazz club, a bar, or a bar mitzvah, the performance never begins with a note, but with a question. The trumpet player might turn to the bassist and ask, “Do you know ‘Body and Soul’?”—and from there the subtle craft of playing the jazz repertoire is tested in front of a live audience. These ordinary musicians may never have played together—they may never have met—so how do they smoothly put on a show without getting booed offstage. In “Do You Know . . . ?” Robert R. Faulkner and Howard S. Becker—both jazz musicians with decades of experience performing—present the view from the bandstand, revealing the array of skills necessary for working musicians to do their jobs. While learning songs from sheet music or by ear helps, the jobbing musician’s lexicon is dauntingly massive: hundreds of thousands of tunes from jazz classics and pop standards to more exotic fare. Since it is impossible for anyone to memorize all of these songs, Faulkner and Becker show that musicians collectively negotiate and improvise their way to a successful performance. Players must explore each others’ areas of expertise, develop an ability to fake their way through unfamiliar territory, and respond to the unpredictable demands of their audience—whether an unexpected gang of polka fanatics or a tipsy father of the bride with an obscure favorite song. “Do You Know . . . ?” dishes out entertaining stories and sharp insights drawn from the authors’ own experiences and observations as well as interviews with a range of musicians. Faulkner and Becker’s vivid, detailed portrait of the musician at work holds valuable lessons for anyone who has to think on the spot or under a spotlight.