Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Alamuti, Masoud Mohammadi, Towards a Sociology of the Open Society: Critical Rationalism and the Open Society. Volume 2. (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) 232 pp. 2022:11 (Routledge, UK) <681-973>
ISBN 978-0-367-46132-4 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

This book applies the general theory of critical rationalism in order to develop a new sociology of the open society, in general, and a new analysis of the transition from a closed society to an open society in particular. It presents a criticism of Karl Popper's analysis of human action for opening up a closed society, followed by a critical study of the mainstream sociology to show how justificational models of knowledge and rational action have prevented sociology from addressing the contribution of human action to social change.This book provides new sociologies of closed and open societies. It argues that in the closed society "a low level" of critical rationality is activated by people to define the meaning of the good life and social institutions of law, polity and economy. Masoud Mohammadi Alamuti proposes five mechanisms of opening up closed society through the model of social change, inspired by the philosophy of critical rationalism.This volume is "the first systematic attempt" to apply the philosophy of critical rationalism in order to present a "normative sociology of the open society". It will be of interest to postgraduate researchers and professional readers in philosophy, sociology, moral science, law, politics and economics. In addition, this book would benefit research centres, policymakers and civil society activists interested in the ideas of critical rationalism and the open society.

〔英訳〕Z.バウマン著　断片に見るわが生涯
Bauman, Zygmunt / Wagner, Izabela, My Life in Fragments. Ed. by I. Wagner. Tr. by K. Bartoszynska. 200 pp. 2022:9 (Polity Pr., UK) <681-974>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5130-9 hard ¥5,390.- (税込) US$ 25.00 *

Zygmunt Bauman was one of the great social thinkers of our time: inventor of the idea of liquid modernity, he transformed our way of thinking about the social conditions shaping our lives today. His own life was shaped by the great social forces that scarred the second half of the twentieth century - war, communism, antisemitism, forced migration. His work bears the traces of an outsider who knew all too well the enormous impact that social and political forces can have on personal lives. Bauman never wrote a full biography, but he wrote extended letters to his daughters in which he recounted the details of his life - his childhood and schooling; his experiences during the war and its aftermath; his forced emigration from Poland in 1968 and his subsequent life in exile, first in Israel and then in the UK, where he eventually settled at the University of Leeds. This book makes available for the first time these fragments of a life recounted, woven into a compelling autobiographical narrative that is laced with the broader reflections of a master thinker on some of the great issues of our time: identity, antisemitism and totalitarianism.

〔英訳〕Z.バウマンと文化理論
Brzezinski, Dariusz, Zygmunt Bauman and the Theory of Culture. Tr. by K. Bartoszynska. 192 pp. 2022:12 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <681-975>
ISBN 978-0-228-01396-9 hard ¥30,184.- (税込) US$ 140.00 *
ISBN 978-0-228-01397-6 paper ¥8,613.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

One of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) made reflection on culture a fundamental part of his academic work. He published a substantial number of papers on the topic, and many of his concepts would go on to significantly influence the social sciences and humanities. Bauman began his theoretical studies on culture when working at the University of Warsaw and continued them all his life. Inspired by the many intellectual currents he encountered over his more than six decades of work, Bauman wrote on culture in the contexts of such issues as Marxism and socialism, modernity and the Holocaust, postmodernity and liquid modernity, and contemporary nostalgia. In Zygmunt Bauman and the Theory of Culture Dariusz Brzezinski uses the evolution of Bauman's theory of culture as a prism through which to offer a comparative analysis, putting Bauman's work in conversation with the writings of other contemporary intellectuals.In this first comprehensive and critical assessment of Bauman's lifelong work on culture, Brzezinski includes Bauman's Polish-language papers and books, as well as his works discovered only posthumously, presenting them to an international audience.

Hjellbrekke, Johs / Hugree, Cedric et al. (eds.), Class Boundaries in Europe: The Bourdieusian Approach in Perspective. (Routledge Advances in Sociology) 344 pp. 2022:11 (Routledge, UK) <681-976>
ISBN 978-1-03-212267-0 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

Drawing inspiration from Pierre Bourdieu's social space theory, this book provides an unprecedent overview of class relations, covering topics such as class polarisation, cultural reproduction, political orientations, and globalisation.The book applies Bourdieusian social space approach to show how class boundaries have been maintained or transformed in different European countries. Based on quantiative data, it proposes a renewal of the analysis of distances, divides, and relations of domination between social classes, documenting objective and symbolic boundaries that form the basis of individuals' living and working conditions in 11 European countries. Focusing on transformations of wealth inequalities, education strategies, and European labour markets, the book examines the role of cultural, economic and social capital. It will be of interest to students and scholars across the social sciences, in particular to those studying social and wealth inequalities in a comparative perspective and Master's students in European studies.

Jain, Sheena, Practising the Symbolic: Pierre Bourdieu's Contribution. 232 pp. 2022:10 (Routledge, UK) <681-978>
ISBN 978-1-03-237519-9 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

A powerful theory of the symbolic embedded within a remarkable and original theory of practice is a nodal aspect of the work of Pierre Bourdieu, who was a leading social thinker of our times (1930-2002). Against the backdrop of the significance of symbolic practice in social life, this book explains the intellectual warp and woof of his theory of the symbolic; presents a brief excursus that explores its potential to illuminate social contexts other than those in which it was conceived; examines its links with Bourdieu's role of social critic and public intellectual; and engages critically with scholarly assessments of his contribution. The book thus seeks to provide a comprehensive and in depth analysis and understanding of a central dimension of Bourdieu's work.

Shove, Elizabeth, Connecting Practices: Large Topics in Society and Social Theory. (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) 168 pp. 2022:11 (Routledge, UK) <681-981>
ISBN 978-1-03-221776-5 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-222996-6 paper ¥10,253.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

Connecting Practices develops a distinctive method of conceptualising significant trends and global issues including environmental sustainability and inequalities in wealth and health, arguing that these are outcomes of the ways in which social practices interact and combine across space and time. Engaging with the question of how connections are made between practices and how past and present combinations make some futures more likely than others, this book brings practice theory to bear on large problems in society. Richly illustrated with examples from the spreading of germs to the history of shipping containers, this powerful analysis of how societies hang together and how they change will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and social theory.

Stanley, Liz, Reintroducing Olive Schreiner: Decoloniality, Intersectionality and the Schreiner Theoria. (Reintroducing...) 152 pp. 2022:10 (Routledge, UK) <681-982>
ISBN 978-0-367-76554-5 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-76559-0 paper ¥10,253.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

This book explores the thought of Olive Schreiner, the internationally famous writer, feminist theorist, social critic, opponent of imperialism and nationalism, and analyst of violence and war, best known for her novels and short stories, articles and critical commentaries, and her feminist treatise, Women and Labour. Expounding her groundbreaking ideas and analyses to a new generation of sociologists, it presents Schreiner as one of the first proponents of an intersectional analysis, in her treatment of the great questions of the age - on labour, women and race - as mutually reinforcing and also bound together with capitalism, imperialism and war in society. Through an analysis of her use of different genres of writing in representing the complexities of social life and oppressions, the author reveals a combination of social theory with practical substantive examples and analysis at the core of Schreiner's intellectual and moral project - an approach that put her at odds with her contemporaries but shows her to be a forerunner of present-day sociological thinking. An examination of the significance for sociology of the work of a figure, the importance of whose thought is only now being recognised, Reintroducing Olive Schreiner will appeal to scholars of sociology and social theory with interests in the history of the discipline, intersectionality and methods of research and analysis.

Ille, Sebastian, Models of Society and Complex Systems. 320 pp. 2022:11 (Routledge, UK) <681-6>
ISBN 978-0-367-47396-9 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-47397-6 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

Models of Society and Complex Systems introduces readers to a variety of different mathematical tools used for modelling human behaviour and interactions, and the complex social dynamics that drive institutions, conflict, and coordination. What laws govern human affairs? How can we make sense of the complexity of societies and how do individual actions, characteristics, and beliefs interact? Social systems follow regularities which allow us to answer these questions using different mathematical approaches.This book emphasises both theory and application. It systematically introduces mathematical approaches, such as evolutionary and spatial game theory, social network analysis, agent-based modelling, and chaos theory. It provides readers with the necessary theoretical background of each toolset as well as the underlying intuition, while each chapter includes exercises and applications to real-world phenomena. By looking behind the surface of various social occurrences, the reader uncovers the reasons why social systems exhibit both cultural universals and at the same time a diversity of practices and norms to a degree that even surpasses biological variety, or why some riots turn into revolutions while others do not even make it into the news. This book is written for any scholar in the social sciences interested in studying and understanding human behaviour, social dynamics, and the complex systems of society. It does not expect readers to have a particular background apart from some elementary knowledge and affinity for mathematics.

S.Malesevic著　なぜ人間は戦うのか－近距離の暴力の社会的動学
Malesevic, Sinisa, Why Humans Fight: The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence. 320 pp. 2022:6 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <681-656>
ISBN 978-1-00-916279-1 hard ¥22,788.- (税込) GB￡ 79.99 *
ISBN 978-1-00-916281-4 paper ¥7,689.- (税込) GB￡ 26.99 *

Malesevic offers a novel sociological answer to the age-old question: 'Why do humans fight?'. Instead of focusing on the motivations of solitary individuals, he emphasises the centrality of the social and historical contexts that make fighting possible. He argues that fighting is not an individual attribute, but a social phenomenon shaped by one's relationships with other people. Drawing on recent scholarship across a variety of academic disciplines as well as his own interviews with the former combatants, Malesevic shows that one's willingness to fight is a contextual phenomenon shaped by specific ideological and organisational logic. This book explores the role biology, psychology, economics, ideology, and coercion play in one's experience of fighting, emphasising the cultural and historical variability of combativeness. By drawing from numerous historical and contemporary examples from all over the world, Malesevic demonstrates how social pugnacity is a relational and contextual phenomenon that possesses autonomous features.

Mica, Adriana / Pawlak, Mikolaj et al. (eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Failure. (Routledge International Handbooks) 560 pp. 2022:11 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2024 <681-7>
ISBN 978-0-367-40404-8 hard ¥55,555.- (税込) GB￡ 195.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-237104-7 paper ¥12,532.- (税込) GB￡ 43.99 *

This Handbook examines the study of failure in social sciences, its manifestations in the contemporary world, and the modalities of dealing with it - both in theory and in practice. It draws together a comprehensive approach to failing, and invisible forms of cancelling out and denial of future perspectives. Underlining critical mechanisms for challenging and reimagining norms of success in contemporary society, it allows readers to understand how contemporary regimes of failure are being formed and institutionalized in relation to policy and economic models, such as neo-liberalism. While capturing the diversity of approaches in framing failure, it assesses the conflations and shifts which have occurred in the study of failure over time. Intended for scholars who research processes of inequality and invisibility, this Handbook aims to formulate a critical manifesto and activism agenda for contemporary society. Presenting an integrated view about failure, the Handbook will be an essential reading for students in sociology, social theory, anthropology, international relations and development research, organization theory, public policy, management studies, queer theory, disability studies, sports, and performance research.

Trigilia, Carlo (ed.), Capitalisms and Democracies: Can Growth and Equality be Reconciled? (Routledge Advances in Sociology) 472 pp. 2022:10 (Routledge, UK) <681-185>
ISBN 978-1-03-228512-2 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

This book examines steadily-growing increases in inequality within Western capitalist democracies, examining with care the differences between these democracies rooted in their culture and institutions.It highlights the differences in growth and inequalities between different countries, pointing to the role of endogenous institutions that affect social inequalities as well as the relationship between redistribution and economic growth. The book presents extensive comparative research on institutional factors such as industrial relations, welfare systems, training and innovation policies.Paying attention to diverse types of democracies and to the main features of left-wing parties, the book highlights the importance of politics, and of different types of democracies, in shaping social inequalities and diverse development paths. It will appeal to students and scholars interested in economic and labour sociology, welfare studies, comparative political economy, comparative welfare, varieties of capitalism, and comparative politics.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.