在线阅读本书 In this remarkable book, regarded by Russell as one of the most important of his career, he argues that power is man's ultimate goal and is, in its many guises, the single most important element in the development of any society.

作者简介 格尔哈特•伦斯基，北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校社会学荣休教授，代表作为The Religious Factor: A Sociological Study of Religion's Impact on Politics; Human Societies（与Jean Lenski合著）。 译者简介 关信平，博士，南开大学社会工作与社会政策系教授，毕业于四川大学哲学系（本科）和南开大学社会学系（硕士）和南开大学经济学院（博士），曾赴英国、美国、德国等国家访问研究。著有《中国城市贫困研究》等，在中外学术期刊上发表100多篇学术论文。 谢晋宇，博士，现任四川大学教授。获教育部新世纪优秀人才奖励、天津市优秀社会科学成果一等奖等。在中外学术刊物发表论文近百篇。 陈宗显，南开大学外国语学院西语系教授（已退休），毕业于北京大学西方语言文学系，从事德语和英语教...(展开全部)

At the time of his death in 1950, Joseph Schumpeter--one of the great economists of the first half of the 20th century--was working on his monumental History of Economic Analysis. A complete history of efforts to understand the subject of economics from ancient Greece to the present, this book is an important contribution to the history of ideas as well as to economics. Althoug...(展开全部)

Bayesian methods are increasingly being used in the social sciences, as the problems encountered lend themselves so naturally to the subjective qualities of Bayesian methodology. This book provides an accessible introduction to Bayesian methods, tailored specifically for social science students. It contains lots of real examples from political science, psychology, sociology, an...(展开全部)

Much of our concept of society has been defined by sociology's dual focuses: individuals, and groups. In this eagerly awaited book, Donati shifts focus to the relationships between people, and explains this new 'relational sociology' in detail.

皮耶尔保罗·多纳蒂（Pierpaolo Donati），意大利博洛尼亚大学社会学教授，1995—1998年任意大利社会学会会长，“关系社会学”（或“社会的关系理论”）创始人。出版著述达800多种，近期出版的有《建构关系的社会理论：一种社会学历程》《关系主体》等。 刘军，博士，西安交通大学社会学系教授、博士生导师。研究方向为关系社会学、社会学方法论。出版专著《法村社会支持网络》（2006）、《整体网分析》（2014）、译著《两种传承：社会科学中的定性与定量研究》（2016）、《社会网络分析手册》（2018）等著作10余部，学术论文近50篇。近期研究富含“意义”的关系“存在”。 朱晓文，美国匹兹堡大学博士，西安交通大学社会学副教授、博士生导师。研究方向为教育社会学、教育测量和评价、定量研究方法。主持多项国家级和省部级课题，出版英文专著1部（Bayesia...(展开全部)

米努什·沙菲克（Minouche Shafik） 伦敦政治经济学院校长，横跨学界和公共政策领域的知名经济学家。曾任职于世界银行长达15年，是世界银行有史以来最年轻的副行长。2008—2011年担任英国国际发展部常务秘书，2011—2014年担任国际货币基金组织副总裁，2014—2017年担任英国央行副行长，于2017年开始担任伦敦政治经济学院的校长。此外，她还曾任教于乔治敦大学和宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院。她于2015年获得了大英帝国司令勋章。

This comprehensive guide takes a "how-to" approach to qualitative data collection and analysis. Drawing from a wealth of illustrative research examples and applications, the authors introduce techniques of collecting, focusing, and analyzing data in a step-by-step manner. First published in 1971, this book has become the field manual for any student doing social science fieldwo...(展开全部)

This is the first textbook on social network analysis integrating theory, applications, and professional software for performing network analysis (Pajek). Pajek software and datasets for all examples are freely available, so the reader can learn network analysis by doing it. In addition, each chapter offers case studies for practicing network analysis. The book will enable the ...(展开全部)