Throughout their careers, social scientists must come up with compelling research topics, decide when and where to publish, and revise their manuscripts for publication. Despite the importance of these skills, they are seldom if ever addressed in the course of graduate training. Heavy emphasis is placed on conducting research, and other core activities such as teaching also rec...(展开全部)

Designed to help both professional and student scientists and engineers write clearly and effectively, this text approaches the subject in a fresh way. Using scores of examples from a wide variety of authors and disciplines, the author - himself a writer and physicist -- demonstrates the difference between strong and weak scientific writing, and how to convey ideas to the inten...(展开全部)

This timely and hugely practical work provides a score of examples from contemporary and historical scientific presentations to show clearly what makes an oral presentation effective. It considers presentations made to persuade an audience to adopt some course of action (such as funding a proposal) as well as presentations made to communicate information, and it considers these...(展开全部)

This is an examination of the history and the state of the art of the quest for visualizing scientific knowledge and the dynamics of its development. Through an interdisciplinary perspective this book presents profound visions, pivotal advances, and insightful contributions made by generations of researchers and professionals, which portrays a holistic view of the underlying pr...(展开全部)

“I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell,” writes Michael Polanyi, whose work paved the way for the likes of Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper. The Tacit Dimension argues that tacit knowledge—tradition, inherited practices, implied values, and prejudgments—is a crucial part of scientific knowledge. Back in print for a new ge...(展开全部)

This volume brings together leading international scholars to explore the relationship between social order and legitimate knowledge.The contributors include, Martin Kusch, Steven Loyal, Mark Haugaard, David Bloor, Trevor Pinch, John Dupre, Donald MacKenzie, Harry Collins, Steven Shapin and Karin Knorr Cetina, who share the view that social order and knowledge are mutually cons...(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)

This book reformulates the sociologicalsubdiscipline known as the sociology of knowledge.Knowledge is presented as more than ideology, including aswell false consciousness, propaganda, science andart.

A general and systematic account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both critical discussion and empirical investigations. This book is concerned with the sociology of 'everything that passes for knowledge in society'. It focuses particularly on that 'common-sense knowledge' which constitutes the reality of everyday life for the ordinary member of society. T...(展开全部)