Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people's lives – the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined to us, the feverish waiting for a phone call or an email, the thrill that runs our spine at the mere thought of him or her. To be in love is to become an adept of Plato, to see through a person an idea, perfect and c...(展开全部)

Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people's lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us; the feverish waiting for a phone call or an email, the thrill that runs our spine at the mere thought of him or her. Yet, a culture that has so much to say about love is virtually silent on the no less mysteri...(展开全部)

In this volume, Richard Ned Lebow introduces his own constructivist theory of political order and international relations based on theories of motives and identity formation drawn from the ancient Greeks. His theory stresses the human need for self-esteem, and shows how it influences political behavior at every level of social aggregation. Lebow develops ideal-type worlds assoc...(展开全部)

In this volume, Richard Ned Lebow introduces his own constructivist theory of political order and international relations based on theories of motives and identity formation drawn from the ancient Greeks. His theory stresses the human need for self-esteem, and shows how it influences political behavior at every level of social aggregation. Lebow develops ideal-type worlds assoc...(展开全部)

The relationship between sociology and social critique has haunted the discipline since its origins. Does critique divert sociology from its scientific project? Or is critique the ultimate goal of sociology, without which the latter would be a futile activity disconnected from the concerns of ordinary people? This issue has underpinned two divergent theoretical orientations tha...(展开全部)

Translated by Ephraim Fischoff With a new Foreword by Ann Swidler

Since the classic contributions of Weber and Durkheim, the sociology of law has raised key questions on the place of law in society. Drawing together both theoretical and empirical themes, in this 2008 book Mathieu Deflem reviews the field's major accomplishments and reveals the value of the multiple ways in which sociologists study the social structures and processes of law. H...(展开全部)

We commonly think of society as made of and by humans, but with the proliferation of machine learning and AI technologies, this is clearly no longer the case. Billions of automated systems tacitly contribute to the social construction of reality by drawing algorithmic distinctions between the visible and the invisible, the relevant and the irrelevant, the likely and the unlikel...(展开全部)

For junior/senior-level courses in Religion and Society in departments of Sociology and Religious Studies. Using an unbiased, balanced approach, the 8th edition of this text puts religion in its social context by discussing the impact of society on religion and helps students understand the role and function of religion in society that occur regardless of anyone's claims about ...(展开全部)

珍妮·H.巴兰坦（Jeanne H.Ballantine），美国俄亥俄州立大学怀特分校社会学教授。主要研究领域是教育社会学、应用社会学、国际研究以及全球女性问题。她在哥伦比皿大学获得硕士学位，在印第安纳大学获得博士学位。曾执教于日本、巴西、西班牙、意大利、卢旺达（富布莱特学者）等多个国家，在中国也做过讲座和研究。她在国际社会学协会、美国社会学协会、应用社会学学会等多个学术组织中担任职务。她学术成果众多，现已出版五本著作（每本都再版多次）并发表大量论文，她曾荣获包括美国社会学协会颁发的“教学杰出贡献奖”在内的许多教学和科研奖项，弗洛伊德M.海默克（Foyd M.Hammack），美国纽约大学斯坦哈特文化学院教育与人类发展系社会学教授。其研究兴趣集中在中等教育改革以及高等教育问题上。近期著作有《当代综合高中》（2004）、《立法及教育权利诉讼之路：纽约和...(展开全部)