Social Structure: Relationships, Representations, and Rules

Eastwood, Jonathan

  • 出版商: Polity
  • 出版日期: 2025-02-25
  • 售價: $2,620
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 224
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  • ISBN: 1509561927
  • ISBN-13: 9781509561926
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商品描述

Social structure is arguably the central concept of sociology, and in recent years a much wider public has taken up with fresh vigor the sociological idea that persistent inequalities are rooted in social structures. Yet there seem to be as many definitions of the term as there are sociologists, and we often struggle to articulate accessible yet precise accounts of structures that can guide empirical research and other kinds of action.

Jonathan Eastwood offers a set of pragmatic strategies for thinking about social structures, emphasizing ways in which we can approach them as complex lacings of relationships, representations, and rules. He then teases out a variety of implications of these strategies for qualitative and quantitative research, the analysis of social problems, and the implementation of social policies. Written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as fellow scholars, this insightful book contributes to our understanding of this fundamental and dynamic ingredient of social life.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

社會結構可以說是社會學的核心概念,近年來,越來越多的公眾以全新的活力接受了這一社會學觀點,即持續存在的不平等根植於社會結構中。然而,對於這個術語的定義似乎與社會學家的人數一樣多,我們常常難以清晰而精確地表達出能夠指導實證研究和其他行動的結構概念。

Jonathan Eastwood 提出了一套務實的策略來思考社會結構,強調我們可以將其視為複雜的關係、表徵和規則的交織。他隨後探討了這些策略對於定性和定量研究、社會問題分析以及社會政策實施的各種影響。這本書是為高年級本科生、研究生以及學者們所寫,對於我們理解這一社會生活的基本而動態的要素做出了貢獻。

作者簡介

Jonathan Eastwood is Professor of Sociology at Washington & Lee University.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

喬納森·伊斯特伍德是華盛頓與李大學的社會學教授。