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

Balon, Jan / Holmwood, John, Empire and Subject Peoples: Herbert Adolphus Miller and the Political Sociology of Domination. (Theory for a Global Age) 208 pp. 2025:2 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <731-987>
ISBN 978-1-5261-6860-3 hard ¥22,176.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00

The book outlines the sociological arguments and political activities of the US pragmatist sociologist, Herbert Adolphus Miller (1875-1951). Miller was part of the milieu of Chicago sociology and involved in its studies of race and immigration. He took a distinctly more radical approach and developed a novel political sociology of domination in which he set out a critique of empires, the plight of subject minorities and the risks associated with the inevitable nationalist responses. Where others have identified with the 'internationalisation' of nationalism, Miller sought to make the nation 'international'. He was actively involved in movements for racial justice, Czechoslovakian independence, the formation of the Mid-European Union of subject peoples, as well as support for Korean and Indian independence. He was dismissed by Ohio State University for his activism in 1932.

M.ヴェーバー没後100年－遺産と展望
Derman, Joshua / Gordon, Peter E. (eds.), Max Weber at 100: Legacies and Prospects. 336 pp. 2025:1 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <731-988>
ISBN 978-0-19-760492-2 hard ¥20,473.- (税込) US$ 99.00

ラザーズフェルドの方法論と欧州における戦後社会学への影響
Jerabek, Hynek, Lazarsfeld's Methodology and Its Influence on Postwar Sociology in Europe: The Rise of the Columbia Model of Sociology. (Routledge Advances in Sociology) 216 pp. 2024:11 (Routledge, UK) <731-990>
ISBN 978-1-03-268006-4 hard ¥37,422.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book explains how the Columbia model of sociology, which was based on the methodology of P.F. Lazarsfeld, became a dominant sociological school of thought in American and European post-war sociology. Providing an overview of Lazarsfeld's inventions and his methodological, organisational, and institutional innovations, it describes the means by which a particular model of sociology was gradually adopted in departments headed by Lazarsfeld and in the work of his successors. With attention to the use by Lazarsfeld of methodological texts published by prestigious publishing houses in his research and teaching, his activity in international organisations - including the UN - his collaboration with figures such as Robert K. Merton and Raymond Boudon, and his attempts to show how the roots of his empirical research methodology lay in the work of early European scholars, this volume shows how a particular sociological paradigm came to prevail over others for more than a decade. It will therefore appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in the history of the discipline and questions of research methodology.

Emigh, Rebecca Jean / Riley, Dylan (eds.), Elites, Nonelites, and Power: The Critical Legacy of Elite Theory from Marx to Lachmann, and Then Beyond. (Political Power and Social Theory 41) 368 pp. 2024:11 (Emerald, UK) <731-682>
ISBN 978-1-83797-584-6 hard ¥30,606.- (税込) US$ 148.00

In a world of vertiginous inequality, escalating ecological disaster, and extraordinary political and economic turbulence generated by a winner-take-all society seemingly designed to concentrate privilege and power in the hands of a very few, the central question that faces social science-and indeed the world-is whether social protest will change anything, or whether elites will continue to lead the planet and its population to disaster. All important topics of contemporary social science, including racial justice, environmental change, immigration, economic inequality, and education, to name a few, revolve around this issue. Elites, Nonelites, and Power explores how the question of the power of elites, and the conditions under which that power might be tamed, lie at the heart of social science today. Bringing together a cutting-edge set of multidisciplinary papers on power, elites, and nonelites, that weigh in on these central issues of the world and social science, the collection consider these topics in a new, inclusive way, by drawing in researchers who deal with topics central to elite theory, but who might not be represented in more classic statements of it. A "go to" piece for several generations of scholars, this is a compelling volume for scholars across the social sciences interested in elite theory.