Material culture surrounds us and yet is habitually overlooked. So integral is it to our everyday lives that we take it for granted. This attitude has also afflicted the academic analysis of material culture, although this is now beginning to change, with material culture recently emerging as a topic in its own right within the social sciences. Carl Knappett seeks to contribute...(展开全部)

Material culture surrounds us and yet is habitually overlooked. So integral is it to our everyday lives that we take it for granted. This attitude has also afflicted the academic analysis of material culture, although this is now beginning to change, with material culture recently emerging as a topic in its own right within the social sciences. Carl Knappett seeks to contribute...(展开全部)

Noted scholar Henry Glassie (Passing the Time in Ballymenone, Turkish Traditional Art Today), directs his attention to reinventing and reinvigorating thistory and art through the study of material culture. As Glassie puts it, "The concept of culture seems a secure achievements. In the future, history and art, as well as science and philosophy, will be understood to be, like cul...(展开全部)

Summary Focusing on the material as culture from newer perspectives applied to contemporary consumption, Woodward (cultural sociology, Griffith U., Australia) surveys diverse approaches (e.g., sociological, psychological, marketing, cross-disciplinary) to studying people-object relations as a lens on the values of modern consumer society. Case studies (e.g., of homes, objects i...(展开全部)

吕坤维（Louise Sundararajan）， 生于云南，获台湾东海大学英语语言文学学士学位、哈佛大学宗教史博士学位和波士顿大学心理咨询博士学位，现定居美国。她曾担任人类现实与意义心理国际协会主席、美国心理协会人本主义心理学分委会主席，并于2014年荣获后者颁发的“亚伯拉罕·马斯洛奖”。现担任《人本主义心理学家》 《人本主义心理学期刊》等重要国际学术期刊编委委员。她主导的中国本土心理学运动已吸引全球200余位学者加入。自本书英文版出版以来，吕坤维博士已应用其理论指导并开展多项有关中国少数民族的文化、认知和情绪的研究。此外，由她研制开发的中文语言分析软件系统（SSWC-中文版）在文化、情绪和认知等研究中已发挥出重大的应用价值。在理论研究之外，她还从事罪犯心理矫治的临床实践工作。工作之余，她也偶尔偷闲去抱孙子。

Written with students in mind, Thinking Through Theory explores the role of theory in sociology with a focus on good thinking: how to keep from thinking in circles, how to know when we are contradicting ourselves, and how to avoid thinking tautologies are meaningful.

安乐哲，夏威夷大学哲学系教授。他在1987年获伦敦大学哲学博士学位，曾担任夏威夷大学中国研究中心主任。安乐哲教授出版了一系列蜚声国际的中国哲学专著，其中包括《先哲的民主：杜威、孔子与中国民主之希望》、《通过汉代而思》、《主术：中国古代政冶制度之研究》、《通过孔子而思》等；同时也是一位重要的中国经典的翻译家，将中国一些重要的哲学典籍译成英文，其中包括《孙子兵法》、《孙膑兵法》、《论语》、《道德经》等。他还是美国的比较哲学杂志《东西方哲学》的主编。 郝大维（David L.Hall）美国哲学家。

Simply put, Thinking Through Statistics is a primer on how to maintain rigorous data standards in social science work, and one that makes a strong case for revising the way that we try to use statistics to support our theories. But don’t let that daunt you. With clever examples and witty takeaways, John Levi Martin proves himself to be a most affable tour guide through these sc...(展开全部)

安乐哲，夏威夷大学哲学系教授。他在1987年获伦敦大学哲学博士学位，曾担任夏威夷大学中国研究中心主任。安乐哲教授出版了一系列蜚声国际的中国哲学专著，其中包括《先哲的民主：杜威、孔子与中国民主之希望》、《通过汉代而思》、《主术：中国古代政冶制度之研究》、《通过孔子而思》等；同时也是一位重要的中国经典的翻译家，将中国一些重要的哲学典籍译成英文，其中包括《孙子兵法》、《孙膑兵法》、《论语》、《道德经》等。他还是美国的比较哲学杂志《东西方哲学》的主编。 郝大维（David L.Hall）美国哲学家。

Written with students in mind, Thinking Through Theory explores the role of theory in sociology with a focus on good thinking: how to keep from thinking in circles, how to know when we are contradicting ourselves, and how to avoid thinking tautologies are meaningful.