At a time when a pile of bricks is displayed in a museum, when music is composed for performance underwater, and the boundaries between popular and fine art are fluid, conventional understandings of art are strained in describing what art is, what it includes or excludes, whether and how it should be evaluated, and what importance should be assigned the arts in society. In this...(展开全部)

Sociology of the Arts is a comprehensive overview of the sociology of art and an authoritative work of scholarship by a leading expert in the field. The book synthesizes the various theoretical models of art sociology, and provides empirical examples as well as stimulating exemplars of sociological work on the arts. Case studies of art works are from both ends of the cultural s...(展开全部)

Sociology of the Arts is a comprehensive overview of the sociology of art and an authoritative work of scholarship by a leading expert in the field. The book synthesizes the various theoretical models of art sociology, and provides empirical examples as well as stimulating exemplars of sociological work on the arts. Case studies of art works are from both ends of the cultural s...(展开全部)

This is a comprehensive overview of the sociology of art and an authoritative work of scholarship by a leading expert in the field. The international selection of perspectives, empirical research, and case studies makes this book essential for teaching and studying the sociology of art. Synthesizes the various theoretical models of art sociology. Provides empirical examples...(展开全部)

This is a comprehensive overview of the sociology of art and an authoritative work of scholarship by a leading expert in the field. The international selection of perspectives, empirical research, and case studies makes this book essential for teaching and studying the sociology of art. Synthesizes the various theoretical models of art sociology. Provides empirical examples...(展开全部)

Towards a Sociology of the Novel (French: Pour une sociologie du roman) is a 1963 book by Lucien Goldmann. The book was a seminal work for Goldmann. In it, he lays out his theory of the novel. Goldmann was born in Bucharest, Romania, but grew up in Botoşani. He studied law at the University of Bucharest and the University of Vienna under the Austromarxist jurist Max Adler. In 1...(展开全部)

约翰·斯科特（John Scott），埃克塞特大学和哥本哈根大学的名誉教授，英国科学院院士、社会科学院院士和英国皇家艺术学会院士。主要著作有《公司、阶级和资本主义》（Corporations, Classes and Capitalism，1975）、《谁统治英国？》（Who Rules Britain?，1991）、《社会学理论》（Sociological Theory: Contemporary Debates，1995）、《权力》（Power，2001）和《社会理论：社会学的核心问题》（Social Theory: Central Issues in Sociology，2005）、《社会世界的概念化：社会学分析的原则》（Conceptualising the Social World: Principles of Sociological A...(展开全部)

约翰·斯科特（John Scott），埃克塞特大学和哥本哈根大学的名誉教授，英国科学院院士、社会科学院院士和英国皇家艺术学会院士。主要著作有《公司、阶级和资本主义》（Corporations, Classes and Capitalism，1975）、《谁统治英国？》（Who Rules Britain?，1991）、《社会学理论》（Sociological Theory: Contemporary Debates，1995）、《权力》（Power，2001）和《社会理论：社会学的核心问题》（Social Theory: Central Issues in Sociology，2005）、《社会世界的概念化：社会学分析的原则》（Conceptualising the Social World: Principles of Sociological A...(展开全部)

A consistent best-seller, the wide-ranging and authoritative Dictionary of Sociology was first published in 1994 and contains more than 2,500 entries on the terminology, methods, concepts, and thinkers in the field, as well as from the related fields of psychology, economics, anthropology, philosophy, and political science. For this fourth edition, Professor John Scott has cond...(展开全部)

Wide-ranging and authoritative, this bestselling sociology dictionary is the most informative of its kind. Compiled by a team of sociological experts, under the editorship of Gordon Marshall and John Scott, it is packed with over 2,500 entries. With terms taken from sociology and the related fields of psychology, economics, anthropology, philosophy, and political science, it pr...(展开全部)