Observes social structures and inequalities with a critical, conflict perspective. Taking a conflict approach,top-selling Social Problems 12e focuses on the underlying features of the social world in an effort to help students to understand today's social problems. A consistently sociological approach in Social Problems Census Update establishes a coherent fram...(展开全部)

This text provides a language and a set of tools for finding bounds on the predictions that social and behavioural scientists can logically make from non-experimental and experimental data. Economist Charles Manski draws on examples from criminology, demography, epidemiology, social psychology and sociology as well as economics to illustrate this language and to demonstrate the...(展开全部)

What Makes a Social Crisis? The Societalization of Social Problems Jeffrey C. Alexander In this book, Jeffrey Alexander develops a new sociological theory of social crisis, which he calls societalization. He argues that crises are triggered not by objective social strains but by the discourse and institutions of the civil sphere. In the steady state, reactions to strains unfold...(展开全部)

What Makes a Social Crisis? The Societalization of Social Problems Jeffrey C. Alexander In this book, Jeffrey Alexander develops a new sociological theory of social crisis, which he calls societalization. He argues that crises are triggered not by objective social strains but by the discourse and institutions of the civil sphere. In the steady state, reactions to strains unfold...(展开全部)

乔治·埃尔顿·梅奥 美国管理学家，行为科学奠基人，人际关系理论创始人，美国艺术与科学院院士。1922年在洛克菲勒基金会的赞助下，埃尔顿·梅奥移居美国，在宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院任教。其间，埃尔顿·梅奥曾从心理学角度解释产业工人的行为，认为影响产业工人行为的因素是多重的，没有一个单独的要素能够起决定性作用，这成为他后来将组织归纳为社会系统的理论基础。1923年，埃尔顿?梅奥在费城附近一家纺织厂就车间工作条件对工人的流动率、生产率的影响进行实验研究。1926年，他进入哈佛大学工商管理学院专事工业研究，以后一直在哈佛大学工作到退休。 尽管埃尔顿·梅奥从事过不同的职业，但使他闻名于世的还是他对霍桑实验所做的贡献。霍桑实验以及埃尔顿?梅奥对霍桑实验结果的分析对西方管理理论的发展产生了重大而久远的影响，使西方管理思想在经历过早期管理理论和古典管理理论（包括泰勒的...(展开全部)

Under the influence of post-empiricism, philosophy of science has in recent years begun to show a healthier respect for history and actual practice. In this accessible account, James Bohman shows how this model can be applied to the social sciences, opening the way for a new synthesis that finds rigor within the necessary indeterminacy of practice.

In this new and brilliantly organized book of essays, Anthony Giddens discusses three main theoretical traditions in social science that cut across the division between Marxist and non-Marxist sociology: interpretive sociology, functionalism, and structuralism. Beginning with a critical examination of the importance of structuralism for contemporary sociology, the author develo...(展开全部)

Through vividly written case studies and a reader-friendly question-and-answer format, Mom, They’re Teasing Me is full of specific, how-to advice for parents to help their children navigate the sometimes harsh terrain of social life–which includes name-calling, after-school fights, esteem-crushing cliques, and malicious exclusion by the popular kids. Through thoughtful discus...(展开全部)