Neoclassical economics as-sumes that people are highly rational and can reason their way through even the most complex economic problems. In Individual Strategy and Social Structure, Peyton Young argues for a more realistic view in which people have a limited understanding of their environment, are sometimes short-sighted, and occasionally act in perverse ways. He shows how the...(展开全部)

罗伯特•K.默顿（1910—2003）美国著名社会学家、科学社会学奠基人、结构功能主义流派代表人物之一，出生于费城，1931年获坦普尔大学学士学位，随后进入哈佛大学，师从社会学名家索罗金、帕森斯及科学史家萨顿，1936年获得社会学博士学位，先后在哈佛大学、图兰大学和哥伦比亚大学任教，曾任美国社会学学会主席（1956—1957），并当选美国科学院院士，代表著作有《十七世纪英国的科学、技术与社会》（1938/1970）、《大众信念》（1946）、《社会理论和社会结构》（1949/1968）、《在巨人的肩膀上》（1965）、《论理论社会学》（1967）、《科学社会学》（1973）、《社会学的矛盾选择及其他文集》（1976）、《科学社会学散忆》（1979）、《社会研究与从事专门职业》（1982）等。

The world's most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time--a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep and for its scientific vision. With characteristic attention to detail, Stephen Jay Gould first describes the content and discusses the history and origins of the three core commitments...(展开全部)

In Social Capital, first published in 2001, Nan Lin explains the importance of using social connections and social relations in achieving goals. Social capital, or resources accessed through such connections and relations, is critical (along with human capital, or what a person or organization actually possesses) to individuals, social groups, organizations, and communities in ...(展开全部)

This volume focuses on two questions: why do people from one social group oppress and discriminate against people from other groups? and why is this oppression so mind numbingly difficult to eliminate? The answers to these questions are framed using the conceptual framework of social dominance theory. Social dominance theory argues that the major forms of intergroup conflict, s...(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。

Institutions of Law offers an original account of the nature of law and legal systems in the contemporary world. It provides the definitive statement of Sir Neil MacCormick's well-known 'institutional theory of law', defining law as 'institutional normative order' and explaining each of these three terms in depth. It attempts to fulfil the need for a twenty-first century introd...(展开全部)