塔尔科特·帕森斯(Talcott Parsons，1902—1979）　美国社会学家。结构功能主义的代表人物。1902年12月13日生于美国科罗拉多州的斯普林斯 ，1979年5月8日卒于德国。1920年入美国阿默斯特学院学习，1924年获文学士学位。后赴欧洲，先在伦敦经济学院学习，复又转到海德堡大学研究经济学和社会学，1927年获博士学位。回国后一直在哈佛大学从事教学与理论研究工作。先任哈佛大学经济系讲师 ，从1931年开始在社会学系讲授社会学，1944年成为社会学教授，1946年出任社会关系系主任，1973年退休 。曾于1949年担任美国社会学会主席。

塔尔科特·帕森斯(Talcott Parsons，1902—1979）　美国社会学家。结构功能主义的代表人物。1902年12月13日生于美国科罗拉多州的斯普林斯 ，1979年5月8日卒于德国。1920年入美国阿默斯特学院学习，1924年获文学士学位。后赴欧洲，先在伦敦经济学院学习，复又转到海德堡大学研究经济学和社会学，1927年获博士学位。回国后一直在哈佛大学从事教学与理论研究工作。先任哈佛大学经济系讲师 ，从1931年开始在社会学系讲授社会学，1944年成为社会学教授，1946年出任社会关系系主任，1973年退休 。曾于1949年担任美国社会学会主席。

In Social Capital, first published in 2001, Nan Lin explains the importance of using social connections and social relations in achieving goals. Social capital, or resources accessed through such connections and relations, is critical (along with human capital, or what a person or organization actually possesses) to individuals, social groups, organizations, and communities in ...(展开全部)

The Explanation of Social Action is a sustained critique of the conventional understanding of what it means to "explain" something in the social sciences. It makes the strong argument that the traditional understanding involves asking questions that have no clear foundation and provoke an unnecessary tension between lay and expert vocabularies. Drawing on the history and philos...(展开全部)

Conventional understanding of what it means to "explain" something in the social sciences provokes unnecessary confusion and conflict, and indeed is often based more on analysts' imaginations than actors' realities. The Explanation of Social Action lays out a sustained critique of this understanding, pointing out that the root of the problem is an attempt to counterpose two rad...(展开全部)

Brian Skyrms, author of the successful Evolution of the Social Contract (which won the prestigious Lakatos Award) has written a sequel. The book is a study of ideas of cooperation and collective action. The point of departure is a prototypical story found in Rousseau's A Discourse on Inequality. Rousseau contrasts the pay-off of hunting hare where the risk of non-cooperation ...(展开全部)

Brian Skyrms, author of the successful Evolution of the Social Contract (which won the prestigious Lakatos Award) has written a sequel. The book is a study of ideas of cooperation and collective action. The point of departure is a prototypical story found in Rousseau's A Discourse on Inequality. Rousseau contrasts the pay-off of hunting hare where the risk of non-cooperation ...(展开全部)

There are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and contentious thinker who has shaped the way we think about mind and language. Now he offers a profound understanding of how we create a social reality--a reality of money, property, governments, marriages, stock markets and cocktail parties. The paradox he addresses in Making the Social Wor...(展开全部)

There have been two great shifts of power on the world stage during the past five centuries: the rise of Europe following the Industrial Revolution, and the rise of the United States after its Civil War. As we speak, a new power shift is beginning to take shape: the rise of Asia. Leading Asia's charge toward the world's center stage are the reemerging powers of China and India....(展开全部)

瞿同祖（1910－2008）归侨历史学家。长沙人。1936年毕业于燕京大学，获硕士学位。曾任云南大学历史系教授。1945年赴美国，任美国哥伦比亚大学、哈佛大学研究员。后去加拿大，任不列颠哥伦比亚大学教授。1965年回国，历任湖南省文史研究馆馆员、政协湖南省文史资料研究委员会副主任，中国社会科学院近代史研究所研究员。1980年出席第二十七届欧洲汉学会议。1985年，以高级学者名义访问美国哈佛大学、芝加哥大学、华盛顿大学，阐述儒家思想与中国法律发展的关系。著有《中国封建社会》、《清代地方政府》、《汉代社会》、《中国法律与中国社会》等。