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

Schmidt, Patrick L., Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations. 264 pp. 2022:6 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <696-707>
ISBN 978-1-5381-6828-8 hard ¥25,009.- (税込) US$ 116.00 *

This book tells the little-known story of how some of the most renowned social scientists of the twentieth century struggled to elevate their emerging disciplines of cultural anthropology, sociology, and social and clinical psychology. Scorned and marginalized in their respective departments in the 1930s for pursuing the new and controversial theories of Freud and Jung, they convinced Harvard to establish a new department for their pursuits, promising to create an interdisciplinary science that would surpass in importance Harvard's "big three" disciplines of economics, government, and history. The leader of the group was famed sociologist Talcott Parsons, who believed they could develop a single theory to explain all human behavior. It is a lively narrative as faculty members Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (reborn as Ram Dass) became notorious for studying the effects of psilocybin on students. The Students for a Democratic Society infiltrated the teaching staff of the department's largest course in the spring of 1969, scandalizing both the department and the university. The history of Social Relations is a fascinating instructive tale of hubris, ego, and academic politics overlaid on Parsons's obsessive quest for an all-encompassing theory of social behavior - the white whale to his Captain Ahab.

ジェンダー、労働、社会理論
Huppatz, Kate, Gender, Work and Social Theory: The Critical Consequences of the Cultural Turn. (Themes in Social Theory) 224 pp. 2023:5 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <696-228>
ISBN 978-1-350-36993-1 hard ¥27,065.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-1-350-36992-4 paper ¥8,543.- (税込) GB￡ 29.99 *

How is gender signified, produced and reproduced through paid and unpaid labour? In what ways does gender intersect with other kinds of disadvantage? How does power work through interactions, emotions and bodies? In this original synthesis of social theory and its application to gender and work, Kate Huppatz draws from classical theory and principles of the 'cultural turn' to explore how feminist sociology dismantles dualistic understandings of gender and scrutinizes the workings of power. In a tour de force of exposition and analysis of landmarks in the literature, Huppatz reflects upon continuities and departures in cutting-edge research on gender within organizations, unpaid domestic labour, and paid and unpaid care work. Close attention is paid to pressing issues such as the intersectionality of inequality in the workplace, relations between micro activities and larger social processes, and the impact of Covid-19 on exposing and exacerbating the gendered inequalities of work. Case examples drawn from North America, Australasia and the UK illustrate social theory in practice. Throughout, Huppatz emphasizes the importance of theoretical understandings in furthering empirical research about gender and work. She also considers the gendered division of labour within the study of work and employment itself. This key new addition to the Themes in Social Theory series is an essential read for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers interested in this area of study across a wide range of disciplines.