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

Chen, Shing-Ling S. (ed.), Symbolic Interaction and AI. (Studies in Symbolic Interaction 61) 184 pp. 2025:12 (Emerald, UK) <756-902>
ISBN 978-1-83708-693-1 hard ¥26,461.- (税込) US$ 124.00

Artificial Intelligence (AI), an umbrella term that includes any device capable of emulating or even exceeding human capabilities, emerged as computer technologies became more sophisticated and complex. Recent rapid developments in AI have utilized the pattern-matching capacity to create words, images, and sounds, often referred to as Generative AI. In 2022, Open-AI unveiled ChatGPT, a computer program designed to simulate conversation with users. After receiving input from users, ChatGPT displayed the capacity to provide lifelike answers, that appeared filled with human insight. Given the rapid advancement of AI in transforming social life, authors in this volume explore the implications of the emergent interaction between humans and AI technologies. They each provide a fine-grain view of the social forms associated with the use of AI technologies, using symbolic interactionist concepts such as identity, reflexivity, the self, the generalized other, time, place, and more as pivots of analysis. Symbolic Interaction and AI demonstrates the utilities of symbolic interactionist theorizing in understanding the consequences of AI use in social life, as well as how the research of AI technologies could enhance the development of symbolic interactionist theories.

Diaz-Bone, Rainer / Lehmann-Wermser, Andreas (eds.), Perspectives on Music after Bourdieu: Contributions from Music Education and Sociology of Music. 362 pp. 2025:10 (Springer VS, GW) <756-903>
ISBN 978-3-658-49144-4 paper ¥16,298.- (税込) EUR 64.99

The sociology of Pierre Bourdieu has become one of the most influential theories in music education and sociology of music. Generations of scholars in both fields have applied, criticized and advanced the concepts and methods invented by Bourdieu and his school. The volume presents new contributions on the relevance, actuality and perspectives of Bourdieu's theory in the field of music production and music reception. The volume advances the interdisciplinary evaluation of Bourdieu's approach and contributes to a new evaluation of the Bourdieusian approach in the field of music research.

Doran, Barbara, Creative Practice and Embodied Narratives: Transdisciplinary Inquiry through the Body, Story, and System. (Palgrave Advances in Possibility Studies) 352 pp. 2025:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <756-904>
ISBN 978-3-032-01197-8 hard ¥30,092.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book distils thirty years of creative practice into a rigorous inquiry that bridges artmaking, somatic intelligence, and systems thinking. Rooted in the author's concept of Embodied Matter Exploration (EME), it positions creativity as cultural metabolism, where material, memory, and body co-compose meaning. Each chapter unfolds around an artwork as theory, method, and intervention. Resisting fragmentation, the book integrates autoethnography, semiotics, and living systems thinking. Academic literature is treated as a dialogical companion. By participating in meaning making and interpretation, readers gain new perceptions of self, nature, and society, and develop critical reflections to challenge pressing issues such as social injustice, environmental sustainability, and technology's shaping impacts. A thought-provoking read for those interested in systems theory, anthropology, health psychology, neuroscience, and ecology, this practice-led and autoethnographic work opens new paths to possibility studies and creative research.

社会的凝集・分極化の計算社会科学
Keijzer, Marijn A. / Lorenz, Jan / Bojanowski, M. (eds.), Computational Social Science of Social Cohesion and Polarization. (Computational Social Sciences) 324 pp. 2025:11 (Springer, GW) <756-907>
ISBN 978-3-032-01372-9 hard ¥12,536.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This is an open access book. This edited volume explores the decay of social cohesion in democratic societies through the lens of Computational Social Science (CSS). Acknowledging its critical role in democratic stability, the UN and other organizations prioritize the strengthening of social cohesion. Despite these efforts, recent years have witnessed a decline in generalized trust, political polarization, and a loss of faith in democratic authorities. The book showcases that CSS, with its diverse tools and methodologies, is well-suited to address these challenges. Divided into two parts, the first section features contributions from senior scholars providing an introduction to social cohesion and polarization. It emphasizes the interconnected nature of these concepts and how CSS can push the discipline forward. Social cohesion is seen as a delicate balance between close-knit connections and positive societal connectivity, but also consensus on core values, norms and beliefs. This mirrors the study of political polarization, which traditionally focussed on attitudinal differences, and is nowadays much more about identity segregation and inter-party affection and connectivity. The book serves as a bridge between these topics, encouraging interdisciplinary exploration. The second part showcases contributions from both senior and junior researchers applying CSS methods to study social cohesion and political polarization. Various approaches-text-as-data analyses of parliamentary speeches and newspaper records, network science studies of opinion systems and co-sponsorship dynamics, and agent-based modeling exploring attitudes and identity-based influence-highlight the breadth of CSS tools. Together, they establish a foundation for CSS in understanding social cohesion and polarization, encouraging collaboration between traditional researchers in cohesion and polarization, and computational social scientists.

P.キヴィスト他著　市民圏－入門
Kivisto, Peter / Sciortino, Giuseppe, The Civil Sphere: A Concise Introduction. 136 pp. 2025:12 (Polity Pr., UK) <756-908>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6056-1 hard ¥13,860.- (税込) US$ 64.95
ISBN 978-1-5095-6057-8 paper ¥4,257.- (税込) US$ 19.95

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Jeffrey C. Alexander's Civil Sphere Theory (CST). It reconstructs the development and key features of this theory and explains why it offers an original and compelling way of thinking about civil society. The book reveals the ways in which the various components of CST come together to offer an illuminating framework for making sense of the complexities, ambiguities, and tensions inherent in modern democratic societies located in highly differentiated and pluralistic societies. It compares CST to civil society theories from the past and present, along with the idea of the societal community and Habermas's theory of the public sphere. Among the topics addressed are the relationship between CST and Alexander's approach to cultural sociology, the binary character of cultural codes, normative philosophy, the role of social movements in effecting civil repair, and the idea of multiculturalism as a new mode of incorporation that makes possible a politics of recognition. The book assesses the main criticisms of CST and concludes by showing how CST has proven to be an ongoing, evolving project that has generated a wide range of empirical research and stimulated further theoretical refinement and development.

Montuori, Alfonso, Integrative Transdisciplinarity: Scholarship for Creativity and Complexity. 208 pp. 2025:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <756-911>
ISBN 978-3-032-01046-9 hard ¥10,028.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book offers an invaluable introduction to Integrative Transdisciplinarity (ITD). Integrative Transdisciplinarity (ITD) prepares scholars to contextualize, interpret, integrate, and develop new perspectives and approaches. It is grounded in complex thought, frames inquiry as a creative process and embraces the full humanity of the researcher. Its goal is to provide a conceptual context for conducting meaningful research with the greatest amount of freedom and creativity, while doing justice to the complexity of both researcher and research topic. ITD presents 5 interrelated dimensions that serve as a conceptual context and precondition for transdisciplinary inquiry: Inquiry-based, Complex Thought, Creativity, Meta-paradigmatic, and Integration of the Inquirer.

告発の社会学
Olesen, Thomas, The Sociology of Whistleblowing: Disclosure and Suspicion in Democratic Societies. (Cultural Sociology) 167 pp. 2025:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <756-912>
ISBN 978-3-032-03475-5 hard ¥25,076.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book views the whistleblower as a key character in democratic societies. It argues that whistleblowing is likely to become an increasingly important form of action in the coming years. Whistleblowers are unique actors in our democracies because they disclose wrongdoing from the inside, as organization employees. With their privileged access and specialized knowledge, they contribute powerfully to public, democratic, and moral debates in a way that no one else can. The book explores whistleblowers' relation to democracy by connecting them to values such as suspicion, openness, honesty, and critique. While anchored in a cultural sociological tradition, the book draws on several different sociological thinkers such as Niklas Luhmann, Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, Juergen Habermas, and Pierre Bourdieu. Themes in the book include the democratic history of the whistleblower, normalized wrongdoing in organizations, the place of whistleblowers in popular culture, and Big Tech whistleblowing. This book will be of interest to readers in fields including political sociology, public sociology, the sociology of work, and organization studies.

関係社会学の新方向　第2巻
Vandenberghe, Frederic / Papilloud, Christian (eds.), New Directions in Relational Sociology. Volume Two: Relations All the Way Down. (Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology) 352 pp. 2025:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <756-913>
ISBN 978-3-032-02412-1 hard ¥35,108.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This edited volume contains contributions from scholars from all over the world that outline their version of relational sociology, situate it within the relational landscape and indicate how it might contribute to the development of a relational paradigm. This book aims to open a variety of perspectives on relational sociology and to bring them into a fruitful, frictional dialogue. These chapters draw on the canonical authors of the relational turn, present relational perspectives in the neighbouring disciplines, integrate divergent approaches, solve important conceptual problems, articulate the relations between the core concepts of relational sociology, and apply the relational perspective to subfields of sociology. The first part of the book considers structuralism, post-structuralism and the new institutionalism. The second part is concerned with the "hard core" of relational sociology and takes the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Harrison White in another direction. The third part is the most innovative one and contains texts that add another turn to the relational turn. The final part lifts the veil on non-human relations and brings the Anthopocene to the fore.

藤吉圭二編　ガバナンス、無知、アーカイブズ－現代日本社会における重要な情報の共有
Fujiyoshi, Keiji (ed.), Governance, Ignorance, and Archives: Sharing Critical Information in Contemporary Japanese Society. 116 pp. 2025:12 (Springer, GW) <756-749>
ISBN 978-981-9519-61-3 hard ¥32,600.- (税込) EUR 129.99

Taking Japan as a heuristic example, this book explores the significance of neatly kept and classified records and archives to maintain a democratic society. Japan adopted constitutional monarchy as a state system in the nineteenth century and then amended it to become a democracy in the twentieth century. How the evaluation of public and governmental records has and has not changed for almost a century is an indication of the maturity of democracy in Japan. How and to what extent the records of the government are disclosed to and shared with the public are among the fundamental criteria to assess the quality and maturity of democracy in a society. From this point of view, the book examines the current status of records and archives management in several spheres of Japanese society, with some international comparative studies as well. On the one hand, Japan is a society that has attached great importance to written documents, which is evident when one sees how carefully ordinary people kept diverse kinds of documents even in the pre-modern period. On the other hand, the public at large has long been indifferent to the records and archives that serve as fundamental infrastructure to keep the governance of society transparent and accountable. By examining those contradictory aspects of the attitudes toward records and archives in Japanese society, this book provides the key elements of management of critical information for a democratic society.

Elmholdt, Kasper T. / Huising, Ruthanne et al. (eds.), Expertise In and Around Organizations: The Changing Constitution and Ecology of Expertise. (Research in the Sociology of Organizations 97) 488 pp. 2025:12 (Emerald, UK) <756-372>
ISBN 978-1-83662-621-3 paper ¥18,139.- (税込) US$ 85.00

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Expertise In and Around Organizations explores the shifting ecology of expertise in an era where the authority of traditional domain experts is increasingly challenged, yet expertise remains indispensable. Organizations rely more than ever on expertise to tackle some of society's most urgent and complex challenges. But how does expertise function when it is no longer solely authorized by rationalist or scientific foundations or traditional domain experts? Bringing together a group of scholars from diverse disciplines and approaches, this volume examines the evolving ecology of expertise and the competition for recognition among its many forms. In two distinct sections, the book expands traditional conceptualizations of expertise. The first section highlights overlooked, emergent, and undervalued forms of expertise that work alongside rationalist, scientific forms of expertise to produce impactful interventions. The second section delves into the roles of intermediaries, allies, laypeople, and audiences in shaping how expertise is recognized and organized within this expanding ecology. Together, these chapters push the boundaries of how we understand expertise in and around organizations and move beyond conventional notions of domain expertise. In an age of misinformation, new technologies, emerging media, and shifting job roles, this collection is essential for scholars of management, organization studies, sociology, and anyone interested in the evolving landscapes of knowledge and authority.

Kuehl, Stefan / Muster, Judith, Designing Organizations: A Very Brief Introduction. 2nd ed. 57 pp. 2025:8 (Springer, GW) <756-376>
ISBN 978-3-032-00856-5 paper ¥16,298.- (税込) EUR 64.99

When (re-)designing organizations, one must first be clear about what is meant by the structures of an organization and what can be done in order to change them. In this book, we present communication channels, programs and personnel as central structures. We also unfold the aspects that come to the forefront when one focuses on either the formal, the informal or the display side of an organization. At the core, we elaborate on how structures cause blind spots, and how these can be utilized for processes of change.

社会科学はなぜ重要か　第2版
Michie, Jonathan / Cooper, Cary L. (eds.), Why the Social Sciences Matter: More Than Ever. 2nd ed. 303 pp. 2025:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <756-4>
ISBN 978-3-032-02146-5 paper ¥7,520.- (税込) EUR 29.99

From climate change and inequality to migration and global conflict, this book explores the definingchallenges of our time. Revised and featuring nine new chapters, it brings together top scholars todemonstrate how the social sciences help us make sense of complex events and global trends. Withfresh insights into climate justice, populism, productivity, sustainable development, and social wellbeing, it reveals how these issues are deeply interconnected. Supported by the Academy for Social Sciences, the book shows how disciplines such as economics,education, political science, psychology, and sociology are essential for understanding developmentsthat may seem purely technological or natural. It champions interdisciplinary collaboration to ensurescience, technology, and policy serve the public good. Whether you're a curious reader, policymaker,or academic, this book makes a compelling case for why the social sciences matter now more thanever-and how understanding human behaviour and society can help shape a better future. With contributions by: Howard Newby, Jonathan Michie, Cary L. Cooper, Jayati Ghosh, Joshua Lincoln,Oz Hassan, Robin Cohen, Iyiola Solanke, Bart van Ark, Mary O'Mahony, Dirk Pilat, James CampbellQuick, Robert J. Gatchel, Camilla Toulmin, Dave Cowan, Sally Wheeler, Mike Hough, Andreas J. Stylianides, Gabriel J. Stylianides, Marya Besharov, Catherine Hasted and Will Hutton.

Bellanca, Nicolo, Causal Mechanisms and Social Change: An Interdisciplinary Framework. (Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism) 290 pp. 2025:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <756-106>
ISBN 978-3-032-01383-5 hard ¥30,092.- (税込) EUR 119.99

In a world where social complexity defies linear explanation, this book offers a groundbreaking methodology for understanding how and why societies transform. At its core is a systematic repertoire of 48 causal mechanisms-from individual psychology to institutional dynamics-providing powerful analytical tools for decoding social change. This interdisciplinary framework transcends traditional boundaries, integrating insights from sociology, political science, economics, philosophy, and history into a unified language for the social sciences. Moving beyond abstract theory, Bellanca demonstrates how to identify 'sufficient causes'-the decisive factors that, when present, guarantee specific social outcomes. The book progresses from individual mechanisms through conceptual frameworks to middle-range theories, offering both rigorous analysis and practical applications. Whether examining the rise of populism, institutional collapse, or collective mobilization, these tools reveal the hidden patterns driving social transformation. Essential for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners, this work provides not just understanding but actionable insights for those seeking to navigate-and influence-our rapidly changing world.