刘易斯·科塞（Lewis Coser，1913-2003），社会学家。 科塞出生于德国柏林的一个犹太人家庭，像很多知识分子一样，他先于1933年流亡于法国，后于1941年移民美国。 在巴黎期间，曾度过一段艰辛的岁月，后有幸进入巴黎大学的文理学院。经导师的点拨，他将自己的专业方向由比较文学转向社会学。法国社会学界仍笼罩在迪尔凯姆的传统之下，但科塞很快厌倦了这种风格，便加入到马克思主义小组中，继续他在德国时就开始了的对马克思著作的学习。受亨利·雅各比的影响，他又告别了正统马克思主义。 1941年到美国后，在国际救济中心遇见办事员罗斯，二人一见倾心，很快走进婚姻的殿堂。以后罗丝去哥伦比亚大学社会学系读书，科塞也于1948年进了该系研究生班。这期间芝加哥大学到纽约招募教师，科塞去芝加哥大学社会学系任教，他自认为从教学中收益颇多。但二年后他还是决定回哥伦比亚大...(展开全部)

Arthur L. Stinchcombe has earned a reputation as a leading practitioner of methodology in sociology and related disciplines. Throughout his distinguished career he has championed the idea that to be an effective sociologist, one must use many methods. This incisive work introduces students to the logic of those methods. The Logic of Social Research orients students to a set of ...(展开全部)

Arthur L. Stinchcombe has earned a reputation as a leading practitioner of methodology in sociology and related disciplines. Throughout his distinguished career he has championed the idea that to be an effective sociologist, one must use many methods. This incisive work introduces students to the logic of those methods. The Logic of Social Research orients students to a set of ...(展开全部)

艾尔·巴比，美国著名社会学家。从1968年起开始从事社会学教学工作，先后执教于哈佛大学、夏威夷大学、加州大学伯克利分校、查普曼大学等。作者有《调查研究方法》等多部著作行世，特别是《社会研究方法》五书，经过不断修订扩充，已成为美国高校社会学通用教材。 邱泽奇，社会学博士，北京大学中国社会科学调查中心教授、主任，北京大学中国社会与发展研究中心教授、主任，北京大学社会学系教授，先后学习过植物保护、农业古籍整理和农业史、社会学；当过农场技术员，1986年进入社会学领域从事教学与科研工作至今，曾任新加坡国立大学东亚研究所访问研究员，美国哈佛大学燕京学社访问学者。邱泽奇著述丰富，涉及农业古籍、农业史、农村社会组织、反贫困、企业组织、网络组织等。主要研究领域为农村发展、企业组织、技术应用、社会调查方法。

A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least satisfactory-the situations where there is a common interest as well as conflict between adversaries: negotiations, war and threats of war, criminal deterrence, extortion, tacit bargaining. It proposes enlightening similarities between, for instance, maneuvering...(展开全部)

Many of the fundamental questions in social science entail an examination of the role played by social institutions. Why do we have so many social institutions? Why do they take one form in one society and quite different ones in others? In what ways do these institutions develop? When and why do they change? Institutions and Social Conflict addresses these questions in two way...(展开全部)

杰克·奈特研究政治经济制度的一流学者，曾任华盛顿大学政治学系教授。他以其独特的跨学科研究方法，涉及哲学、经济学、政治学和法律等学科领域，发表了许多有关民主理论、法治、司法决策以及制度形成与变迁理论的论文，学术成果具有开创性。主要著作包括《制度与社会冲突》、《解释社会制度》（与伊塔·塞尼德合著）和《正义的选择》（与李·爱泼斯坦合著）等。

For the past fifty years anxiety over the problem of naturalism has driven debates in social theory. One side pursues the idea of social science as another kind of natural science, while the other radically rejects the possibility of objective and explanatory knowledge. All of the various developments in social scientific theory since then have reflected this dichotomy between ...(展开全部)

For the past fifty years anxiety over the problem of naturalism has driven debates in social theory. One side pursues the idea of social science as another kind of natural science, while the other radically rejects the possibility of objective and explanatory knowledge. All of the various developments in social scientific theory since then have reflected this dichotomy between ...(展开全部)

米歇尔·刘易斯-伯克 美国爱荷华大学政治科学系温德尔·米勒（F. Wendell Miller）杰出及讲席教授。自1988年以来，他一直在主持SAGE出版社的“社会科学定量研究应用丛书（Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences，QASS）”的编写。此外，他还是《法国政治学》（French Politics）杂志的编辑并曾担任过《美国政治学杂志》（American Journal of Political Science）的编辑。他独著或与他人合著的专著或文章有110多部（篇）。他在方法方面的出版物包括《实用回归法导论》（Applied Regression: An Introduction）和《数据分析导论》（Data Analysis: An Introduction）。他在政治科学的诸多领域...(展开全部)