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

Acampa, Suania, From Dezinformatsiya to Disinformation: A Critical Analysis of Strategies and Effect on the Digital Public Sphere. 178 pp. 2024:3 (Springer, GW) <718-784>
ISBN 978-3-031-48434-6 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

The book takes a critical look at the phenomenon of disinformation by identifying the historical, technological and human elements that contribute to the current success of disinformation strategies. The author examines the origin of the word "Dezinformatsiya", used by Russian planners in the 1950s, to understand how military strategy has transformed into militarization of information. The book pays particular attention to the power of algorithmic platforms on the selection and dissemination of digital content and their role in the spread of misinformation. This influences traditional editorial practices, disintermediating the production and distribution of news and amplifying a particular human cognitive mechanism: confirmation bias. The author investigates the Italian case to identify general archetypes, and typical and salient elements of disinformation strategies. The results offer a further interpretative aspect to studying disinformation, which represents a fracture in the digital public sphere, a kind of irrational object circulating in a space believed to be governed by rational engagement norms. The book conclusively shows how polarizing narratives used in disinformation strategies are the expression of complex ideological undergrowth embodied in extremes of the political spectrum. This highly topical book is for students and researchers from across the social sciences and media interested in the disinformation phenomenon.

R.N.ベラー著　モダニティへの挑戦
Bellah, Robert N., Challenging Modernity. Ed. & with Intro. & conclusion by R. Madsen et al. 376 pp. 2024:4 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <718-785>
ISBN 978-0-231-21488-9 hard ¥28,028.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-0-231-21489-6 paper ¥6,899.- (税込) US$ 32.00 *

From the 1960s until his death in 2013, Robert N. Bellah was the preeminent figure in the study of religion and society. He broke new ground in mapping the religious dimensions of human experience, from the great breakthroughs of the first millennium BCE to the paradoxes of American civic life. In three final essays, published here for the first time, Bellah grapples with the contradictions of modernity, and seven leading thinkers respond with profound, exhilarating new perspectives on our present predicament.Challenging Modernity critically assesses the modern project to shed light on the tensions between its transcendent aspirations and the perils we now face. Its contributors analyze the roots of the collapse of the political, economic, and cultural institutions that promised perpetual progress but now threaten global catastrophe. Reflecting the range of Bellah's scholarship, they span the disciplines of history, sociology, anthropology, and philosophy. They extend Bellah's insight that only deep historical, cultural, and religious understanding can help us meet modernity's harrowing challenges by sharing responsibility for the global interdependence of our common fate.

若者の社会学研究ハンドブック
Bessant, Judith / Collin, Philippa / O'Keeffe, P. (eds.), Research Handbook on the Sociology of Youth. 496 pp. 2024:5 (E. Elgar, UK) <718-786>
ISBN 978-1-80392-179-2 hard ¥62,678.- (税込) GB￡ 220.00 *

In this groundbreaking Research Handbook on the Sociology of Youth, researchers from around the world examine the social, political, cultural and ecological processes that shape young people's lives and how young people in turn shape the world. Contributors from the Global North and South challenge traditional frameworks as they document the diversity of ways young people now live. The Research Handbook highlights the active and creative responses of young people as they help shape the world and how they work to overcome inequality, adversity and crisis and aspire to flourishing societies and a healthy planetary future.This innovative Research Handbook offers reflective, critical and accessible analyses of contemporary youth sociology as well as insights into how policy-makers and professionals can apply these research findings to their practice. The Research Handbook highlights the diversity of theoretical, methodological and conceptual approaches now available reflecting how the field has become increasingly dynamic and ontologically open. The Research Handbook includes commentaries by young people from across the world and demonstrates how young people are already involved in and are attempting to address the significant issues of our time like climate justice, racism, socio-economic inequalities, forced migration, LGBTQI+ identities, disability, mental health, and violence.In presenting this breadth of new work on the sociology of youth, this groundbreaking Research Handbook offers a major new resource for researchers, teachers, policy-makers, practitioners and students alike.

Bucholc, Marta (ed.), Established-Outsiders Relations in Poland: Reconfiguring Elias and Scotson. (Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias) 274 pp. 2024:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <718-787>
ISBN 978-3-031-49522-9 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book uses Norbert Elias and John L. Scotson's The Established and The Outsiders to map selected established-outsiders figurations in Poland after 1989. Looking at gender and sexual orientation, nationalism and patriotism, race and class, antifeminism and homophobia, elitist and populist imaginaries, religious and political ideals and ideologies, hate speech, and the crisis of the rule of law, this book tracks how inequalities are transformed into figurations of the have and the have-nots by way of spatial, symbolic and institutional exclusion. This edited collection is rooted in a socio-historical understanding of the trajectory of Polish society before and since the fall of Communism over thirty years ago, and a critical assessment of the dramatic turn that Polish society has taken since the beginning of the democratic backsliding in 2015.

Duemling, Sebastian / Wang, Zhenwei (eds.), Being There, but How?: On the Transformation of Presence in (Post-)Pandemic Times. (Sociology) 300 S. 2024:5 (Transcript, GW) <718-791>
ISBN 978-3-8376-6880-3 paper ¥8,239.- (税込) EUR 35.00

In phenomenological tradition, presence has been understood as fundamental for human experience: I experience the world as my lifeworld because I am present in this world. Even more, I experience myself as ?I? only in the presence of the other. However, this concept of presence has become fragile through processes of medialization - not least in (post-)pandemic everyday life. Presence can no longer be experienced exclusively in physical proximity, but also digitally or virtually. With global case studies alongside theoretical discussions by both students as well as senior researchers, the volume launches a conversation between social sciences and humanities on how this change affects human experience.

Hamilton, Clive / Hamilton, Myra, The Privileged Few. 240 pp. 2024:5 (Polity Pr., UK) <718-792>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5970-1 hard ¥15,081.- (税込) US$ 69.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-5971-8 paper ¥5,379.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

Male and white privilege are on the decline, yet elite privilege has gone from strength to strength. The privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerful are not only unfair but cause widespread harm, from the everyday slights and humiliations visited on those lower down the scale to the distortions in the labour market when elites use their networks to secure plum jobs, not least in new domains such as professional sports. In this book, Clive Hamilton and Myra Hamilton show that elite privilege is not a mere by-product of wealth but an organising principle for society as a whole. They explore the practices and processes that sustain, legitimise and reproduce elite privilege and show how we are all implicated in the system, both facilitating it and tolerating its harmful effects. Building on their original fieldwork and a wide range of other sources, the authors paint a vivid picture of the micropolitics of elite privilege, highlighting in particular the vital role played by exclusive private schools. Ranging across topics as diverse as 'glamour suburbs', philanthropy, Rhodes scholarships and super-yachts, The Privileged Few delves beneath attempts at concealment to expose how the elites keep getting away with it.

Jelewska, Agnieszka / Krawczak, Michal / Reid, J. (eds.), Postcollectivity: Situated Knowledge and Practice. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences 284) 257 pp. 2024:7 (Brill, NE) <718-794>
ISBN 978-90-04-69487-3 hard ¥33,897.- (税込) EUR 144.00

Most of the phenomena described in this book have arisen as a result of various crises, disasters, threats, and forms of violence (such as wars, refugee crises, and political regimes, but also devastating practices of the anthropogenic drive and environmental pollution). Others are a form of response to new political, social and cultural changes that we are experiencing due to the rapid development of technology or progressive economic stratification. The research perspective proposed in Postcollectivity draws on the authors' approaches, combining academic and theoretical discourse with social engagement and artistic practice with critical thought. Contributors are: Harshavardhan Bhat, Stephen Dersley, Adela Goldbard, Carly E. Gray, Agnieszka Jelewska, Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Michal Krawczak, Grant Leuning, Ania Malinowska, Anna Nacher, Andrzej W. Nowak, Julian Reid, Pepe Rojo, Sarena Sabine, Jens Schroeter, Jan Stasienko and Brett Zehner.

Martin, John Levi, The True, the Good, and the Beautiful: The Rise and Fall and Rise of an Architectonic for Action. 1112 pp. 2024:8 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <718-795>
ISBN 978-0-231-21312-7 hard ¥10,780.- (税込) US$ 50.00

We have many histories of social theory-what different authors attempted to do as they responded to previous theories. But we know precious little about how they did this in structural terms-what scaffolding they adopted and adapted to make their claims. Yet today's social thoughts largely employ structures passed down from previous generations, structures that were developed to solve problems that are no longer ours.In The True, the Good, and the Beautiful, John Levi Martin explores these structures, the resulting tensions, and their broader significance for sociological thought. By examining how thinkers mapped interpersonal to intrapersonal structures, he traces the development of the underlying architectonics of theory, focusing on one that was inherited from eighteenth-century philosophy and brought into social science in the nineteenth century. He shows that the structural tensions inherent in these theories paralleled those being worked out in practical terms by constitutional theorists as thinkers attempted to return to their most fundamental understandings of the nature of the human, the social, and the political to recraft their societies. A magisterial new interpretation of the foundations of sociological thought, The True, the Good, and the Beautiful is as ambitious a work of social theory as we have seen in generations.

佐藤嘉倫、瀧川裕貴編　計算社会科学の社会学的基礎
Sato, Yoshimichi / Takikawa, Hiroki (eds.), Sociological Foundations of Computational Social Science. (Translational Systems Sciences 40) 155 pp. 2024:3 (Springer, GW) <718-798>
ISBN 978-981-9994-31-1 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book provides solid sociological foundations to computational social science (CSS). CSS is an emerging research field, and many books with those words in the title are on the market. However, CSS has not become mainstream in sociology, for which there are two reasons. First, CSS does not necessarily solve major research questions in sociology. Second, its sociological foundations are weak. These two reasons are interrelated-that is, CSS cannot solve major research questions because its sociological foundations are weak. Thus, even if it tries to solve those questions, its approaches seem to mainstream sociologists to miss the point. To resolve that shortcoming, this book fills the gap between CSS and sociology, shows that CSS can solve major research questions in sociology, and advances sociology by introducing to it theories and methodologies of CSS.

D.スターク著　社会学の実践
Stark, David (ed.), Practicing Sociology: Tacit Knowledge for the Social Scientific Craft. 304 pp. 2024:2 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <718-799>
ISBN 978-0-231-21400-1 hard ¥30,184.- (税込) US$ 140.00 *
ISBN 978-0-231-21401-8 paper ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

Throughout their careers, social scientists must come up with compelling research topics, decide when and where to publish, and revise their manuscripts for publication. Despite the importance of these skills, they are seldom if ever addressed in the course of graduate training. Heavy emphasis is placed on conducting research, and other core activities such as teaching also receive attention, yet fundamental academic practices are left almost entirely in the shadows.Practicing Sociology brings together a range of leading sociologists to reflect on their work and demystify this tacit knowledge. In conversational and engaging essays, they provide practical guidance and hard-won wisdom for readers at any stage of their scholarly careers. The book's three sections explore the art of finding new research questions, best practices in publishing, and how to make the most out of the peer review process. Contributors' distinctive voices come through as they recount their frustrations and failures as well as the joys of the sociological craft. They provide a range of perspectives, underscoring that there is no one "right" way to practice sociology but a constellation of different approaches that together give the field its vitality.Practicing Sociology features a team of skilled scholars including Peter Bearman, Paul J. DiMaggio, Wendy Espeland, Marion Fourcade, Shamus Rahman Khan, Eric Klinenberg, Michele Lamont, Jennifer Lee, Mignon Moore, Mario Small, Duncan Watts, and many more.

G.リッツァ、C.ロジェク、M.J.ライアン編　社会学百科事典　全12巻　第2版
Ritzer, George / Rojek, Chris / Ryan, J. Michael (eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. 2nd ed. 12 vols. 7712 pp. 2024:12 (Wiley-Blackwell, UK) <718-8>
ISBN 978-0-470-65550-4 hard ¥494,802.- (税込) US$ 2,295.00

The new edition of the benchmark work in the field, extensively revised and expanded throughout The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition is the definitive reference work for students, researchers, librarians, and academics in the field. Presenting in-depth coverage of all the major sub-disciplines of sociology, this comprehensive resource contains more than 2700 specially commissioned entries written and edited by an international team of leading scholars. Published as both an online edition and as an twelve-volume set, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition provides a comprehensive, up-to-date guide of key concepts, theories, methodologies, ideas, research, and debates in the expansive field of sociology and beyond. The second edition contains more than 300 entirely new entries reflecting original work on topics related to globalization, social and political movements, genders and sexualities, race and ethnicity, nationalism, health and society, social theory, and more. Many previous entries have been carefully examined and updated with new data, new ideas, recent publications, and more. An unparalleled resource for mapping contemporary sociology and generating new debates, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition: Provides clear and concise descriptions of key concepts in sociology, written by leading experts in the field.Contains an unparalleled range of entries, from definitions of key terms to extended explorations of contemporary topics.Covers foundational work, recent developments, new research, and emerging trends in the field.Includes sociological research and theories from around the world, with particular attention paid to the increasingly global nature of sociological research.Features sophisticated cross-referencing and search tools, the most globally comprehensive timeline in print, a lexicon by subject area, and extensive bibliographies. Remaining an indispensable reference for academics, researchers, and students in sociology and allied disciplines, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition, is also a must-have for college and university libraries.

実証主義以後－歴史社会学における比較への新しいアプローチ
Wilson, Nicholas Hoover / Mayrl, Damon (eds.), After Positivism: New Approaches to Comparison in Historical Sociology. 384 pp. 2024:3 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <718-800>
ISBN 978-0-231-20822-2 hard ¥32,340.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-0-231-20823-9 paper ¥8,192.- (税込) US$ 38.00 *

What is the value of comparison for research in historical sociology? Today, social scientists regularly express doubt about the positivist premises that have long justified comparison's use: that cases can be unproblematically compared as though they are independent of one another, that comparison can reliably yield valid causal inference, and that comparative methods can grapple with questions of meaning, sequence, and process that are central to historical explanation. Yet they remain reluctant to abandon comparison altogether, not least because comparisons are still manifestly useful in the research process.After Positivism presents a bold new set of warrants and methodologies for comparison that takes these criticisms fully into account. The contributors to this book marshal a wide array of postpositivist approaches to knowledge to reconstruct the analytic potential of comparison for a new generation of social scientists. In addition to providing fresh answers to classic questions about case selection and causal inference, authors ponder the role comparison plays in a world where social phenomena are demonstrably time-, space-, and concept-dependent; where causation is typically conjunctural; where social structures and groups emerge and die; and where important objects of inquiry can be understood only in terms of relationships, emergent properties, or contingent and irregular effects. Engaging and timely, this book will be of interest to all those who seek to improve our explanations of historical change in social-scientific research.

政治社会学とは何か？　第2版
Clemens, Elisabeth S., What is Political Sociology? 2nd ed. (What is Sociology?) 224 pp. 2024:5 (Polity Pr., UK) <718-550>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6189-6 hard ¥15,081.- (税込) US$ 69.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-6190-2 paper ¥4,947.- (税込) US$ 22.95 *

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 settings - in the family, at work, in civic associations - as well as the ways in which social attributes such as class, religion, age, race, and gender shape patterns of political participation and the distribution of political power.Political sociology grapples with these issues across an enormous range of historical and geographic settings, from intimate to geo-political scales. It requires an analytic toolkit that includes concepts of power, identities and inequalities, social closure, civil society, and modes of political action. Using these central concepts, this updated edition of What is Political Sociology? discusses the major forms of political order, processes of regime formation and revolution, the social bases for political participation, policy formation as well as feedbacks, social movements and social change, and the possibilities for new forms of digital and transnational politics. In sum, the book offers an insightful introduction to this core perspective on social life.

Herrmann, Peter, Pandemics as Matter of a System Crisis: Precarity of Society. (Prekarisierung und soziale Entkopplung - transdisziplinaere Studien) 144 pp. 2024:3 (Springer VS, GW) <718-278>
ISBN 978-3-658-43449-6 paper ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

Pandemics - it seems that it had been the beginning of a new era, after a first shock wave a new normality commenced trying to, repress the complex challenges while living under a new Sword of Damocles. Origins and consequences of the virus had been frequently issued, but only little attention had been paid to structural problems of societies, making it difficult to cope with the exceptional situation. The present book, focusing on the German polity and its structural weakness, analysis the situation in a historical perspective. It is completed by an essayist globalist outlook on the pandemics.The provocative thesis is that the precarity of society is itself a kind of virus, in many ways as dangerous as the Corona virus. The latter one showed the weak - and dangerous - points of the failure of the polity that need urgent and thorough political answers.

学際性と超学際性百科事典
Darbellay, Frederic (ed.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity. (Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences) 720 pp. 2024:6 (E. Elgar, UK) <718-3>
ISBN 978-1-03-531795-0 hard ¥79,772.- (税込) GB￡ 280.00 *

This Encyclopedia presents a comprehensive overview of the ever-evolving field of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and the Humanities. Authored by over 150 experts, it provides a vision of the Sciences in which scholars push boundaries and promote collaboration across diverse disciplines, scientific cultures and practices.Presenting a range of interconnected ideas and cross-cultural perspectives, this Encyclopedia is a gateway resource for cross-discipline cooperation, outlining key ways in which to collaboratively analyse, comprehend and address the challenges of the 21st century. The book emphasises the importance of intellectual resilience in adapting to a changing academic landscape, encouraging readers to explore transformed science and action.Key FeaturesOver 130 entries written by expert contributorsAids development of an inclusive and diverse understanding of the fieldProvides an extensive exploration of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledgeHighlights the power of collective collaborative intelligence which drives interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarityEncourages a non-linear approach, allowing readers to create and explore unique reading pathways and foster a more personal learning experienceThe Elgar Encyclopedia of Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity is a captivating read for academics, researchers and students in the Social, Natural, Technical Sciences, and the Humanities. Providing practical guidance for successful interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary practice, it is also of benefit to creative professionals and societal policymakers.

Poirier, Nathan / Tomasello, Sarah / George, A. E. (eds.), Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination: Essays in Solidarity and Total Liberation. (Radical Animal Studies and Total Liberation 12) 218 pp. 2023:12 (P. Lang, SZ) <718-113>
ISBN 978-1-63667-222-9 hard ¥29,464.- (税込) SFR 118.00
ISBN 978-1-63667-223-6 paper ¥10,487.- (税込) SFR 42.00

Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination: Essays in Solidarity and Total Liberation pushes critical animal studies forward and outward by making new connections to movements and ideas that have been little engaged with in publication to the present. This book challenges critical animal studies adherents to expand their efforts of solidarity, mutual aid, and activism. Contributors to this volume extend invitations to those not familiar with critical animal studies to welcome them in with gestures of solidarity towards total liberation. Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination does not shy away from controversial topics but critically engages with them using care and tact. This is not controversy for the sake of being provocative, but not being afraid to target root causes of oppression. This book works toward coalition building to resist the current violence and build peaceful communities.

Castellani, Brian / Gerrits, Lasse, The Atlas of Social Complexity. 528 pp. 2024:6 (E. Elgar, UK) <718-16>
ISBN 978-1-78990-951-7 hard ¥41,310.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

Embark on a riveting journey through the study of social complexity with The Atlas of Social Complexity. Over three decades of scientific exploration unfold, unravelling the enigmatic threads that compose the fabric of society. From the dance of bacteria, to human-machine interactions, to the ever-shifting dynamics of power in social networks, this Atlas maps the evolution of our understanding of social complexity.Brian Castellani's and Lasse Gerrits' Atlas is not merely retrospective. It is a compass pointing to uncharted territories: new directions for research and intellectual debate. With wit and insight, they invite the reader to ponder unanswered questions, taking them on a quest for alternative ways to understand the intricate complexities of societies.The Atlas of Social Complexity is a thrilling expedition into the heart of what makes us human: from cognition, emotion, consciousness, the dynamics of human psychology, to social networks, collective behaviour, politics and governance, technology and planning, and the practice of social interventions. The Atlas also visits cross-cutting themes such as intersectionality, configurational complexity, and research methods.Organised around six transdisciplinary themes and twenty-four topics the Atlas is an invaluable resource for all social science and complexity science scholars and students interested in new ideas and new ways of working in social complexity. It paves the way for the next generation of research in the study of social complexity.