内容简介
本书是美国社会学家史蒂文·塞德曼的著作，梳理了从社会学成立伊始至21世纪初期的社会学理论。在清晰明确地概括每个社会理论家、社会理论流派的学说之外，作者还结合写作时的社会环境与背景对各个理论进行了评述，将道德维度加入社会理论，将社会学的种种承诺、概念和知识相对化，试图以此将社会理论带入公共生活的讨论中，融入有关社会世界当下与未来面貌的持续对话和冲突之中。就像作者在序言中所说的：“知识能够让我们的生活有所不同，其首要价值就蕴含于知识所想象并助力缔造的那些类型的生活。正是这样的希望，在大约两百年的时间里引领着社会学和现代社会理论的。也正是这一希望，激发了本书。”
作者简介
史蒂文·塞德曼（Steven Seidman,1948—），美国纽约州立大学社会学教授，关注社会理论、文化、性别、民族主义等方向，长期研究后现代社会学理论和倡导后现代方法论。
李康，先后毕业于复旦大学和北京大学，现任北京大学社会学系教授，教学卓越奖获得者。曾于哈佛大学和牛津大学分别访学一年。在西方社会学理论、文化社会学、历史社会学方面完成译著作30部，1500万字。
Content introduction
This book is the work of American sociologist Steven Seidman, which combs sociological theory from the inception of sociology to the early 21st century. In addition to clearly and explicitly summarizing the doctrines of each social theorist and school of social theory, the author also reviews each theory in the context of the social environment and background at the time of writing, adding the moral dimension to social theory, and relativizing various commitments, concepts and knowledge of sociology, in an attempt to bring social theory into the discussion of public life. Engage in ongoing dialogue and conflict about the present and future face of the social world. As the author says in the preface, "The primary value of the difference that knowledge can make in our lives lies in the types of lives that knowledge can imagine and help to create." It is this hope that has guided sociology and modern social theory for about two hundred years. It is this hope that inspires this book."
About the author
Steven Seidman (1948 -), professor of sociology at the State University of New York, paid attention to social theory, culture, gender, nationalism and other directions, and has long studied postmodern sociological theory and advocated postmodern methodology.
Li Kang, a graduate of Fudan University and Peking University, is currently a professor in the Department of Sociology of Peking University and a winner of the Teaching Excellence Award. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard University and Oxford University for one year respectively. He has translated 30 books with 15 million words in Western sociological theory, cultural sociology and historical sociology.
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