Mad Hazard is a memoir of the career and life of Stephen Turner, chronicling a life in social theory. Showcasing how Turner’s later work on expertise, tacit knowledge, cognitive science, leadership, and liberal democracy developed out of his early interests, this volume describes the institutional and personal constraints and pressures, as well as the personal relationships, th...(展开全部)

In this book Jeffrey C. Alexander develops an original social theory of trauma and uses it to carry out a series of empirical investigations into social suffering around the globe. Alexander argues that traumas are not merely psychological but collective experiences, and that trauma work plays a key role in defining the origins and outcomes of critical social conflicts. He ...(展开全部)

Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities - places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist Joao Biehl leads a detective-like journe...(展开全部)

Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil’s big cities–places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist João Biehl leads a detective-like journey ...(展开全部)

Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities - places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist Joao Biehl leads a detective-like journe...(展开全部)

Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil’s big cities–places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist João Biehl leads a detective-like journey ...(展开全部)

Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities - places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist Joao Biehl leads a detective-like journe...(展开全部)

Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities - places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist Joao Biehl leads a detective-like journe...(展开全部)

威廉姆·奥斯维特曾先后就读于牛津大学和萨塞克斯大学，并在后者任教多年，自2007年起担任纽卡斯尔大学社会学教授。他著有多种开创性的社会理论著作。

社会运动和集体行为是西方社会科学界一个长盛不衰的研究领域，长期以来吸引了来自社会学、社会心理学、政治学、人类学和历史学等学科的大批研究者。本书所收的各篇论文主要反映了80年代中期以来社会学学科内有关社会运动研究的范式变迁：即从占统治地位的功利主义导向的资源动员理论向以意义建构和象征斗争为主要切入点的社会建构论的转变。这一范式转变既得益于社会学家对上述其他学科的最新理论成果（如认知心理学、文化研究和社会史）借鉴，又得益于北美资源动员理论家和欧洲新社会运动理论家之间的相互交流和批评。对于所有对社会运动和集体行为这一研究领域感举的读者来说，本书给出了研究社会运动的一个新的理论框架，这一理论框架给予社会运动中的资源动员进程和意义阐释进程以同等的重要性，在空间轴上顾及到了微观（个体的）、中观（网络或组织的）和宏观（社会文化的）的分析层次，在时间轴上又涉及了社会...(展开全部)