American Sociology has changed radically since 1945. This volume traces these changes to the present, with special emphasis on the feminization of sociology and the decline of the science ideal as well as the challenges sociology faces in the new environment for universities.

This volume is devoted to a major chapter in the history of linguistics in the United States, the period from the 1930s to the 1980s, and focuses primarily on the transition from (post-Bloomfieldian) structural linguistics to early generative grammar. The first three chapters in the book discuss the rise of structuralism in the 1930s; the interplay between American and European...(展开全部)

"Rock is alive and rolling like thunder in Next to Normal. It's the best musical of the season by a mile . . . an emotional powerhouse with a fire in its soul and a wicked wit that burns just as fiercely."--Rolling Stone "No show on Broadway right now makes as a direct grab for the heart--or wrings it as thoroughly--as Next to Normal does. . . . It] focuses squarely on the pai...(展开全部)

Since Durkheim’s influential work a century ago, sociological theory has been among the most integrative and useful tools for social scientists across many disciplines. Sociological theory has nevertheless, due to its usefulness, expanded so very broadly that some wonder whether the concept of "general theory," or even the attempt to link middle-range theories, is still of any ...(展开全部)

This book gives access to a richer and more extensive intellectual past than is common in many jurisprudence textbooks. As is intended ... it will expand the readers sense of the diversity of the past, of the struggle of some of the worlds greatest minds to make sense of the human condition in their times ... The book is a powerful confirmation that legal and political theory c...(展开全部)

This book gives access to a richer and more extensive intellectual past than is common in many jurisprudence textbooks. As is intended ... it will expand the readers sense of the diversity of the past, of the struggle of some of the worlds greatest minds to make sense of the human condition in their times ... The book is a powerful confirmation that legal and political theory c...(展开全部)

作者：彼得•L.伯格,奥地利裔美国著名社会学家，路德教派神学家。主攻社会学、宗教社会学、神学，其著作论及当代重大的政治、经济、社会、文化和宗教问题。 译者：何道宽，深圳大学英语及传播学教授、政府津贴专家、资深翻译家，曾任中国跨文化交际研究会副会长，现任中国传播学会副理事长、深圳市翻译协会高级顾问，从事英语语言文学、文化学、人类学、传播学研究三十余年，著作和译作近六十种，逾1500万字。

Introduction to Sociology distills decades of distinguished work in sociology by one of this century’s most influential thinkers in the areas of social theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and music. It consists of a course of seventeen lectures given by Theodor W. Adorno in May-July 1968, the last lecture series before his death in 1969. Captured by tape recorder (which Adorno cal...(展开全部)

作者：彼得•L.伯格,奥地利裔美国著名社会学家，路德教派神学家。主攻社会学、宗教社会学、神学，其著作论及当代重大的政治、经济、社会、文化和宗教问题。 译者：何道宽，深圳大学英语及传播学教授、政府津贴专家、资深翻译家，曾任中国跨文化交际研究会副会长，现任中国传播学会副理事长、深圳市翻译协会高级顾问，从事英语语言文学、文化学、人类学、传播学研究三十余年，著作和译作近六十种，逾1500万字。

This Book, provides an invaluable introduction to his historical and conceptual engagement with sociology.