福雷斯特·斯图尔特 现为斯坦福大学社会学教授，斯坦福民族志实验室主任，城市研究项目主任，麦克阿瑟研究员，社会研究学会会员。著有《子弹之歌》（Ballad of the Bullet）。 他用城市民族志的方法做研究，采用田野调查和档案研究等质性研究方法探索城市贫困的成因、现状和后果。他延续芝加哥社会学派的方法，观察个人和社群如何理解自身所处的社会世界，提倡公共社会学的理念，期望社群成员也成为知识的生产者。 2020年，获得麦克阿瑟天才奖。

This unusual fictional account, in good part autobiographical, narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great cities. In the tales of both cities we learn some sobering Orwellian truths about poverty and society.

《Down and Out in Paris and London》是乔治·奥威尔的半自传体作品，以幽默而深刻的笔触描绘了他在巴黎和伦敦的贫困生活经历。书中不仅记录了他在底层社会的挣扎与生存智慧，还深刻揭示了贫穷、失业与社会不公等社会问题。这是一部让人在笑声中思考现实，感受生活真谛的文学经典，充满了对社会与人性的深刻洞察。

Autobiographical work by George Orwell, published in 1933. Orwell's first published book, it contains essays in which actual events are recounted in a fictionalized form. The book recounts that to atone for the guilt he feels about the conditions under which the disenfranchised and downtrodden peoples of the world exist, Orwell decides to live and work as one of them. Dressed a...(展开全部)

Autobiographical work by George Orwell, published in 1933. Orwell's first published book, it contains essays in which actual events are recounted in a fictionalized form. The book recounts that to atone for the guilt he feels about the conditions under which the disenfranchised and downtrodden peoples of the world exist, Orwell decides to live and work as one of them. Dressed a...(展开全部)

Television is a central dimension in our everyday lives and yet its meaning and its potency varies according to our individual circumstances, mediated by the social and cultural worlds which we inhabit. In this fascinating book, Roger Silverstone explores the enigma of television and how it has found its way so profoundly and intimately into the fabric of our everyday lives. Hi...(展开全部)

Most previous research on human cognition has focused on problem-solving, and has confined its investigations to the laboratory. As a result, it has been difficult to account for complex mental processes and their place in culture and history. In this startling - indeed, disco in forting - study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity, - arith...(展开全部)

Talk and Social Theory will be an essential text for students of sociolinguistics and the analysis of discourse in conversation. introduces the study of 'talk' linked to social theory; develops a new theoretical argument that reviews the relations between local social practices and general societal processes of talk; the use of everyday examples - a family dinner table, ...(展开全部)

The fable of the Emperor's New Clothes is a classic example of a conspiracy of silence, a situation where everyone refuses to acknowledge an obvious truth. But the denial of social realities--whether incest, alcoholism, corruption, or even genocide--is no fairy tale. In The Elephant in the Room, Eviatar Zerubavel sheds new light on the social and political underpinnings of sile...(展开全部)

After tales from the USA and Britain, Bill Bryson turns his roving eye to Australia, the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. It is the driest, flattest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents. It has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way that anywhere else. Yet when Bill ...(展开全部)