Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to discover that urban marginality is not everywhere the same. Drawing on a wealth of original field, survey and historical data, Loïc Wacquant shows that the involution of America's ur...(展开全部)

Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to discover that urban marginality is not everywhere the same. Drawing on a wealth of original field, survey and historical data, Loïc Wacquant shows that the involution of America's ur...(展开全部)

杰克•古迪（Jack Goody），英国社会人类学家、历史学家，剑桥大学社会人类学系荣誉教授，圣约翰学院成员，因其对人类学的贡献被英国女王封为爵士。1976年入选英国社会科学院，1980年当选美国艺术与科学院外籍荣誉成员，2004年当选美国国家科学院院士。半个多世纪以来，杰克•古迪在人类学、历史学、社会学和文化研究等多个领域里笔耕不辍，这也让他的著作成为当今最广为阅读、最具争议的学术专著。他的著作有《死亡、财产与祖先》、《野蛮心智的驯服》、《烹饪、菜肴与阶级》、《欧洲家庭与婚姻的发展》、《东方世界、古代世界与原始世界》、《花之文化》、《西方中的东方》、《饮食与爱情》和《偷窃历史》等。

The preparation, serving and eating of food are common features of all human societies, and have been the focus of study for numerous anthropologists - from Sir James Frazer onwards - from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives. It is in the context of this previous anthropological work that Jack Goody sets his own observations on cooking in West Africa. He critici...(展开全部)

The preparation, serving and eating of food are common features of all human societies, and have been the focus of study for numerous anthropologists - from Sir James Frazer onwards - from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives. It is in the context of this previous anthropological work that Jack Goody sets his own observations on cooking in West Africa. He critici...(展开全部)

杰克•古迪（Jack Goody），英国社会人类学家、历史学家，剑桥大学社会人类学系荣誉教授，圣约翰学院成员，因其对人类学的贡献被英国女王封为爵士。1976年入选英国社会科学院，1980年当选美国艺术与科学院外籍荣誉成员，2004年当选美国国家科学院院士。半个多世纪以来，杰克•古迪在人类学、历史学、社会学和文化研究等多个领域里笔耕不辍，这也让他的著作成为当今最广为阅读、最具争议的学术专著。他的著作有《死亡、财产与祖先》、《野蛮心智的驯服》、《烹饪、菜肴与阶级》、《欧洲家庭与婚姻的发展》、《东方世界、古代世界与原始世界》、《花之文化》、《西方中的东方》、《饮食与爱情》和《偷窃历史》等。

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)

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)

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)

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)