Minor debts, derisive remarks, a fight over a parking space, butting in line--these are the little things that nevertheless account for much of the violence in human society. But why? Roger V. Gould considers this intriguing question in "Collision of Wills." He argues that human conflict is more likely to occur in symmetrical relationships--among friends or social equals--than ...(展开全部)

Product Description Minor debts, derisive remarks, a fight over a parking space, butting in line—these are the little things that nevertheless account for much of the violence in human society. But why? Roger V. Gould considers this intriguing question in Collision of Wills. He argues that human conflict is more likely to occur in symmetrical relationships—among friends or soci...(展开全部)

Many of the fundamental questions in social science entail an examination of the role played by social institutions. Why do we have so many social institutions? Why do they take one form in one society and quite different ones in others? In what ways do these institutions develop? When and why do they change? Institutions and Social Conflict addresses these questions in two way...(展开全部)

杰克·奈特研究政治经济制度的一流学者，曾任华盛顿大学政治学系教授。他以其独特的跨学科研究方法，涉及哲学、经济学、政治学和法律等学科领域，发表了许多有关民主理论、法治、司法决策以及制度形成与变迁理论的论文，学术成果具有开创性。主要著作包括《制度与社会冲突》、《解释社会制度》（与伊塔·塞尼德合著）和《正义的选择》（与李·爱泼斯坦合著）等。

刘易斯·科塞（Lewis Coser，1913-2003），社会学家。 科塞出生于德国柏林的一个犹太人家庭，像很多知识分子一样，他先于1933年流亡于法国，后于1941年移民美国。 在巴黎期间，曾度过一段艰辛的岁月，后有幸进入巴黎大学的文理学院。经导师的点拨，他将自己的专业方向由比较文学转向社会学。法国社会学界仍笼罩在迪尔凯姆的传统之下，但科塞很快厌倦了这种风格，便加入到马克思主义小组中，继续他在德国时就开始了的对马克思著作的学习。受亨利·雅各比的影响，他又告别了正统马克思主义。 1941年到美国后，在国际救济中心遇见办事员罗斯，二人一见倾心，很快走进婚姻的殿堂。以后罗丝去哥伦比亚大学社会学系读书，科塞也于1948年进了该系研究生班。这期间芝加哥大学到纽约招募教师，科塞去芝加哥大学社会学系任教，他自认为从教学中收益颇多。但二年后他还是决定回哥伦比亚大...(展开全部)

First published in 1930, Seven Types of Ambiguity has long been recognized as a landmark in the history of English literary criticism.Revised twice since it first appeared, it has remained one of the most widely read and quoted works of literary analysis. Ambiguity, according to Empson, includes "any verbal nuance, however slight, which gives room for alternative reactions to t...(展开全部)

Every child knows what it means to play, but the rest of us can merely speculate. Is it a kind of adaptation, teaching us skills, inducting us into certain communities? Is it power, pursued in games of prowess? Fate, deployed in games of chance? Daydreaming, enacted in art? Or is it just frivolity? Brian Sutton-Smith, a proponent of play theory, considers each possibility as it...(展开全部)