Culture, cultural difference, and cultural conflict always surround us. Cultural sociologists aim to understand their role across all aspects of social life by examining processes of meaning-making. In this crisp and accessible book, Lyn Spillman demonstrates many of the conceptual tools cultural sociologists use to explore how people make meaning. Drawing on vivid examples, sh...(展开全部)

Culture, cultural difference, and cultural conflict always surround us. Cultural sociologists aim to understand their role across all aspects of social life by examining processes of meaning-making.In this crisp and accessible book, Lyn Spillman demonstrates many of the conceptual tools cultural sociologists use to explore how people make meaning. Drawing on vivid examples, she...(展开全部)

What is Sociology? presents in concise and provocative form the major ideas of a seminal thinker whose work -- spanning more than four decades -- is only now gaining the recognition here it has long had in Germany and France. Unlike other post-war sociologists, Norbert Elias has always held the concept of historical development among his central concerns; his dynamic theories o...(展开全部)

With an entire discipline devoted to political science, what is distinctive about political sociology? This concise book explains what a sociological perspective brings to our understanding of the emergence, reproduction, and transformation of different forms of political order. Crucially, political sociology expands the field of view to the politics that happen in other social...(展开全部)

Sociology began as a historical discipline, created by Marx, Weber and others, to explain the emergence and consequences of rational, capitalist society. Today, the best historical sociology combines precision in theory-construction with the careful selection of appropriate methodologies to address ongoing debates across a range of subfields. This innovative book explores what ...(展开全部)

Sociology began as a historical discipline, created by Marx, Weber and others, to explain the emergence and consequences of rational, capitalist society. Today, the best historical sociology combines precision in theory-construction with the careful selection of appropriate methodologies to address ongoing debates across a range of subfields. This innovative book explores what ...(展开全部)

Sociology began as a historical discipline, created by Marx, Weber and others, to explain the emergence and consequences of rational, capitalist society. Today, the best historical sociology combines precision in theory-construction with the careful selection of appropriate methodologies to address ongoing debates across a range of subfields. This innovative book explores what ...(展开全部)

Sociology began as a historical discipline, created by Marx, Weber and others, to explain the emergence and consequences of rational, capitalist society. Today, the best historical sociology combines precision in theory-construction with the careful selection of appropriate methodologies to address ongoing debates across a range of subfields. This innovative book explores what ...(展开全部)

With an entire discipline devoted to political science, what is distinctive about political sociology? This concise book explains what a sociological perspective brings to our understanding of the emergence, reproduction, and transformation of different forms of political order. Crucially, political sociology expands the field of view to the politics that happen in other social...(展开全部)

彼得·伯克(Peter Burke)，英国历史学家。1937年生，获牛津大学博士。曾执教苏塞克斯大学、剑桥大学，现为剑桥大学文化史荣休教授及伊曼纽学院(Emmanuel college)研究员。伯克的研究专长为西方史学思想和欧洲文化史，致力于史学与社会科学理论的沟通，探索文化史写作的新领地，是当代最著名的新文化史学家之一。著作宏富，包括《语言的文化史——近代早期欧洲的语言和共同体》、《法国史学革命》、《历史写作的新视野》、《20世纪的历史与历史学家》、《什么是文化史》、《文化史的多样性》、《图像证史》、《意大利文艺复兴》等数十种，作品被翻译成三十多种文字出版。 彼得·伯克的系列作品将在北大出版社“社会文化史译丛”与“历史学的实践丛书”中陆续推出。