Critical realism is a philosophy of science that positions itself against the major alternative philosophies underlying contemporary sociology. This book offers a general critique of sociology, particularly sociology in the United States, from a critical realist perspective. It also acts as an introduction to critical realism for students and scholars of sociology. Written in a...(展开全部)

Critical realism is a philosophy of science that positions itself against the major alternative philosophies underlying contemporary sociology. This book offers a general critique of sociology, particularly sociology in the United States, from a critical realist perspective. It also acts as an introduction to critical realism for students and scholars of sociology. Written in a...(展开全部)

Building on her seminal contribution to social theory in Culture and Agency, in this 1995 book Margaret Archer develops her morphogenetic approach, applying it to the problem of structure and agency. Since structure and agency constitute different levels of stratified social reality, each possesses distinctive emergent properties which are real and causally efficacious but irre...(展开全部)

Building on her seminal contribution to social theory in Culture and Agency, in this 1995 book Margaret Archer develops her morphogenetic approach, applying it to the problem of structure and agency. Since structure and agency constitute different levels of stratified social reality, each possesses distinctive emergent properties which are real and causally efficacious but irre...(展开全部)

Acclaimed Israeli cartoonist Asaf Hanuka’s weekly strips collected into one volume and translated into English for the first time. In 2010, Israeli newspaper The Calcalist asked Hanuka, already well known in Israel as a commercial illustrator and as a contributor to the animated film Waltz With Bashir, for a weekly comic strip. The first of the autobiographical strips chronicle...(展开全部)

Media Rituals rethinks our accepted concepts of ritual behavior for a media-saturated age. It connects ritual directly with questions of power, government, and surveillance and explores the ritual space which the media construct and where their power is legitimated. Drawing on sociological and anthropological approaches to the study of ritual, Nick Couldry applies the work of...(展开全部)

Media Rituals rethinks our accepted concepts of ritual behavior for a media-saturated age. It connects ritual directly with questions of power, government, and surveillance and explores the ritual space which the media construct and where their power is legitimated. Drawing on sociological and anthropological approaches to the study of ritual, Nick Couldry applies the work of...(展开全部)

作者:(英)安东尼·吉登斯 安东尼·吉登斯（Anthony Giddens，1938- ），当代著名社会学家和政治思想家，曾任英国剑桥大学社会学教授，伦敦经济政治学院院长。吉登斯的政治思想对英国新工党的发展产生过举足轻重的影响，曾被誉为英国首相布莱尔的“精神导师”。

作者:(英)安东尼·吉登斯 安东尼·吉登斯（Anthony Giddens，1938- ），当代著名社会学家和政治思想家，曾任英国剑桥大学社会学教授，伦敦经济政治学院院长。吉登斯的政治思想对英国新工党的发展产生过举足轻重的影响，曾被誉为英国首相布莱尔的“精神导师”。

李利安·H.史密斯（Lillian H.Smith, 1887—1983） 加拿大学者，1912年起担任多伦多公立图书馆儿童部主任，终生投入发展儿童文学的事业中。她对儿童书籍的要求十分严格，为儿童选书也极审慎，毫不吝啬对优秀作品的赞扬，对拙劣之作则不予评论介绍。她不遗余力地培养新生力量，并在多伦多大学教育学院开设儿童文学讲座。在她的坚持与努力下，加拿大的儿童图书馆事业和儿童文学推广事业取得了飞速的发展。1953年，美国图书馆协会出版其著作《欢欣岁月》。为了表彰史密斯“鼓励热爱书籍与阅读的杰出工作”，1962年，美国图书馆协会为她颁发了最高荣誉“克拉伦斯·戴”奖。