Lifestyle enterprising: the ‘ambiguity work’ of Swedish horse-farmers

This article introduces the concept of ambiguity work as a specific form of work–life balancing performed when making a livelihood based on leisure interests and a personal lifestyle. The study focuses on female self-employed horse-farmers in Sweden involved in service work with and through horses. Through an analysis of narratives and practices of this service work, based on ethnographic interviews and observations, boundary negotiations of various social spheres are discernible: work and life, and the commercial and the personal. The analysis shows that the horse-farmers perform a delicate and ongoing balancing act between family interests, individual leisure and paid work. Drawing on the notion of sociological ambivalence, it is suggested that this balancing act does not strive for demarcations, but rather to stay betwixt and between social spheres. It is argued that lifestyle enterprising is enacted and confirmed through ongoing boundary negotiations, or ambiguity work, that sustain a tension between keeping and blurring social boundaries. It is further argued that ambiguity work in this type of lifestyle enterprising both reinforces and questions ideals and norms concerning small business management and professional versus nonprofessional relationships.     

从合理化到生活世界--哈贝马斯的社会学研究方法论

文中沿合理化问题———交往行动理论———生活世界概念的提出这一逻辑线路,描述了哈贝马斯社会学研究方法的概貌,并认为,忽视集体行动问题,使哈贝马斯的理论分析出现了某种程度上的逻辑空白,但他的生活世界概念的提出,并没有填补这个空白,而是以其规范性内容,赋予哈贝马斯理论以社会批判的意义。     

海洋文化软实力:社会学的视角

文化软实力的研究离不开社会学的范畴,海洋事业的发展需要海洋领域的文化软实力提升。把握海洋事业的社会发展模式,需要对海洋文化软实力进行社会学视角的研究。本文对海洋文化软实力的含义、研究专题、研究层面和基本内容进行了社会学的解读,进而阐释了影响海洋文化软实力形成的社会因素,并论述了海洋文化软实力的社会功能。     

当下中国农村法治研究范式比较——从借鉴社会学研究范式谈起

论证农村法治的重要性也即本研究的必要性和逻辑起点，从农村法治建设存在的问题为起点，研究农村法治的方法论一一法律社会学的方法问题，并在考察法律社会学方法范式的基础上，比较指出传统范式的问题以及缺陷。     

Dealing with dysnomia: Strategies for the cultivation of used concepts in social research

This article follows recent calls to turn social theory away from its fixations on intellectual history and toward the mechanics and craft of creating social theories in the research process. The subject of this article is a dilemma common to theorizing in social science: dysnomia, or the phenomenon in which some object is poorly named. Specifically, this article focuses on how social scientists distinguish original concepts from their equivalents in everyday speech. Three tactics for dealing with dysnomia are named—academic arcana, classification and sociologism—and considered in order to ascertain the strengths and weaknesses of each.     

The right tool for the job: problems and solutions in visualizing sociological theory

The visualization of social theory is an important part of the development and communication of our theoretical ideas. While most theorists use figures of some kind, few if any have formal training, or guiding rules or principles for the representation of theory. This has often led to poor visualization efforts, and the visual culture of sociology continues to lag behind the natural sciences. The intent of this paper is to serve as a practical and empirically aided guide for social theorists, by providing insights surrounding the cognitive and perceptual properties of certain elements and figures. Through these properties we identify four major problems in theory visualization: vagueness, reduction, unwanted spatial inferences and unwanted metaphorical inferences. We offer solutions to these problems, and to improving theory visualization more generally. Our hope is that this paper will serve as a resource for more thoughtful and informed visualization for practicing social theorists.     

1908年：中国20世纪文学理论格局的初步形成

从1904年6月开始,王国维向中国学界介绍了叔本华、尼采等人的哲学、美学思想,1908年12月,他提出境界说,整合了康德、席勒等人的德国古典美学思想,向中国学界介绍了极端的和拘谨的两种浪漫主义文学.1908年,鲁迅向中国学界介绍了以拜伦为代表的奔放的浪漫主义和以施蒂纳、尼采等人为代表的极端的浪漫主义.同年,周作人向中国学界介绍了赫尔德的文学思想和欧美的新古典主义思想.之所以每一个人介绍的思想不同,是因为他们接触了大量的西方思想资源并经过有意识地比较选择.可以说,通过这短短的4年时间,他们使我国文学理论界获得了自1750年至20世纪初的西方重要的文学理论思想,从而奠定了20世纪中国文学理论的基本格局,这也是对中国传统诗学思想的否定或者重新阐释的源头.     

More than a method? Organisational ethnography as a way of imagining the social

The authors – two anthropologists and an organisational theorist, all organisational ethnographers – discuss their understanding and practices of organisational ethnography (OE) as a way of imagining and reflect on how similar this understanding may be for young organisational researchers and students in particular. The discussion leads to the conclusion that OE may be regarded as a methodology but that it has a much greater potential when it is reclaiming its roots: to become a mode of doing social science on the meso-level. The discussion is based on an analysis of both historical material and the contemporary learning experiences of teaching OE as more than a method to our students.     

美国社会学研究及主要理论的发展

本文简要地回顾了一百多年来美国社会学研究及主要社会学理论的发展。这些研究及理论的发展包括芝加哥学派的兴起,结构功能理论的盛衰,社会互动理论的发展,冲突理论的变化,以及世界体系理论的出现。分析了美国妇女及少数民族社会学者在数量上的增加以及全球化的深入将如何影响美国社会学研究的方向。文章最后讨论了未来社会学及社会研究在美国的发展趋势。     

大自然的馈赠——谈卢梭启蒙思想对华兹华斯诗歌的渗透

从客观和主观两个方面对英国湖畔派诗人华兹华斯的清新隽永的诗风的成因加以扼要阐述,尤其侧重卢梭的启蒙思想对诗人及诗歌的影响.