社会学理论前沿选题指南：从2018年上半年英文期刊筛选11个

英文刊物的摘要很模板化，经常会有一些fill the gap, underdeveloped, contrary to XX之类的语辞。

现假定： 英文社会学刊的最新/不错的刊物上发表的理论议题，在中文语境下也有类似的发展潜力。

那么——2018年上半年（当然是最最新的了），有哪些可以参考作为中文写作的选题的呢？

我从一些社会学刊物上，挑了11个（均是根据以上的办法：从摘要中看类似的关键词。所以这意味着我也没读过全文）。

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1.Offer, Shira, and Claude S. Fischer. 2018. ‘Difficult People: Who Is Perceived to Be Demanding in Personal Networks and Why Are They There?’ American Sociological Review 83 (1): 111–42.

Why do people maintain ties with individuals whom they find difficult? Standard network theories imply that such alters are avoided or dropped.

——网络分析

2. Simpson, Brent, Ashley Harrell, David Melamed, Nicholas Heiserman, and Daniela V. Negraia. 2018. ‘The Roots of Reciprocity: Gratitude and Reputation in Generalized Exchange Systems’. American Sociological Review 83 (1): 88–110.

Social scientists often study the flow of material and social support as generalized exchange systems. These systems are associated with an array of benefits to groups and communities, but their existence is problematic, because individuals may be motivated to take from the system without giving back to it.

——互惠与交换研究

3. Kadivar, Mohammad Ali. 2018. ‘Mass Mobilization and the Durability of New Democracies’. American Sociological Review 83 (2): 390–417.

The “elitist approach” to democratization contends that “democratic regimes that last have seldom, if ever, been instituted by mass popular actors” (Huntington 1984:212). This article subjects this observation to empirical scrutiny using statistical analyses of new democracies over the past half-century and a case study. Contrary to the elitist approach, I argue that new democracies growing out of mass mobilization are more likely to survive than are new democracies that were born amid quiescence. 

——民主化的精英或大众取向

4. Corradi, Fiammetta, and Philipp Höfner. 2018. ‘The Disenchantment of Bitcoin: Unveiling the Myth of a Digital Currency’. International Review of Sociology 28 (1): 193–207.

Bitcoin and its peculiar, decentralized transaction system, have already ignited interest by professional and retail traders in search for profits and by economists and legal experts, looking for possible regulation to contain illegal uses. We instead examine the unexpected and ongoing success of Bitcoin from a sociological perspective, first questioning its unusual legitimation system, backed by the so called ‘blockchain technology’, instead of by governmental authorities. 

——比特币的社会学研究

5. Arcidiacono, Davide, Alessandro Gandini, and Ivana Pais. 2018. ‘Sharing What? The “Sharing Economy” in the Sociological Debate’. The Sociological Review 66 (2): 275–88.

This essay introduces the subject and interpretative perspective of the monograph ‘Unboxing the Sharing Economy’, and is divided into three parts. The first part illustrates the evolution of the concept of the ‘sharing economy’ and the main analytical implications. The second part outlines the key findings of a systematic review of the literature, which indicates both that academic research on the sharing economy has expanded considerably since 2013, and that sociology’s contribution to this debate remains underdeveloped and somewhat incoherent.

    ——共享经济的社会学研究

6. Lindstedt, Nathan. n.d. ‘Shifting Frames: Collective Action Framing from a Dialogic and Relational Perspective’. Sociology Compass 12 (1): e12548.

This article discusses (a) sustained critiques of framing theory and of collective action frames, (b) the development and implications of a dialogic and relational alternative, and (c) suggestions for how to pursue this alternative approach using mental models.

    ——社会运动研究的框架理论vs.关系理论

7.Whitham, Monica M. 2018. ‘Paying It Forward and Getting It Back: The Benefits of Shared Social Identity in Generalized Exchange’. Sociological Perspectives 61 (1): 81–98.

This study tests whether sharing a social identity motivates greater giving in generalized exchange. It also examines important, but often overlooked, differences between two forms of social identity: category-based social identity, which stems from similarities, and group-based social identity, which stems from interactive, interdependent relationships. 

    ——社会认同研究

8.Spaiser, Viktoria, Peter Hedström, Shyam Ranganathan, Kim Jansson, Monica K. Nordvik, and David J. T. Sumpter. 2018. ‘Identifying Complex Dynamics in Social Systems: A New Methodological Approach Applied to Study School Segregation’. Sociological Methods & Research 47 (2): 103–35.

It is widely recognized that segregation processes are often the result of complex nonlinear dynamics. Empirical analyses of complex dynamics are however rare, because there is a lack of appropriate empirical modeling techniques that are capable of capturing complex patterns and nonlinearities. 

——非线性的复杂性模型的经验探索

9.Torres, Eduardo Cintra, Sérgio Moreira, and Rui Costa Lopes. 2018. ‘Understanding How and Why People Participate in Crowd Events’. Social Science Information 57 (2): 304–21.

The participation and collective effervescence in crowd events is a perennial issue in social sciences, however it has scarcely been researched from the point of view of the attendees. This article helps to fill the gap with an exploratory descriptive study based on a sample of 1,553 respondents from 40 countries. 

——集体行动中成因的attendees视角

10.Zaloznaya, Marina, Vicki Hesli Claypool, and William M. Reisinger. 2018. ‘Pathways to Corruption: Institutional Context and Citizen Participation in Bureaucratic Corruption’. Social Forces 96 (4): 1875–1904.

Though bureaucratic corruption is widespread, social scientists have yet to develop a comprehensive model predicting ordinary people’s engagement in corrupt exchanges with street-level bureaucrats. Our article fills this gap by specifying an individual-level causal model of bureaucratic corruption centered around three theoretically derived predictors: beliefs about acceptability of corruption, its perceived riskiness, and its utility to the offender. In doing so, we develop a theory of how institutional stability affects rates and causal pathways to bureaucratic corruption. 

——腐败的社会学研究

11.Nielsen, Kelly, and Tad Skotnicki. forthcoming. ‘Sociology towards Death: Heidegger, Time and Social Theory’. Journal of Classical Sociology. 

In this article, we draw on the existential phenomenology of Martin Heidegger to propose an approach to sociology that takes human experiences of finitude and possibility as crucial topics of investigation. A concern with death is not absent in sociological thought. To the contrary, Durkheim’s Suicide grounds a sociological research tradition into death and dying. Yet Heidegger’s existentialism renders our finitude – not just death – a matter of everyday life, a constitutive feature of human existence and a source of sociological investigation. 

——死亡

（Sociological理论大缸第212期）

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