Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize entire blocks, and transform the very associations that should stabilize young lives—family, relationships, jobs—into liabilities, as the police use such relationships to track down suspects, demand information, and threaten consequences. Alice Goffman spent six years living in one such neighborhood in Philadelphia, and her close observations and often harrowing stories reveal the pernicious effects of this pervasive policing. Goffman introduces us to an unforgettable cast of young African American men who are caught up in this web of warrants and surveillance—some of them small-time drug dealers, others just ordinary guys dealing with limited choices. All find the web of presumed criminality, built as it is on the very associations and friendships that make up a life, nearly impossible to escape. We watch as the pleasures of summer-evening stoop-sitting are shattered by the arrival of a carful of cops looking to serve a warrant; we watch—and can’t help but be shocked—as teenagers teach their younger siblings and cousins how to run from the police (and, crucially, to keep away from friends and family so they can stay hidden); and we see, over and over, the relentless toll that the presumption of criminality takes on families—and futures. While not denying the problems of the drug trade, and the violence that often accompanies it, through her gripping accounts of daily life in the forgotten neighborhoods of America's cities, Goffman makes it impossible for us to ignore the very real human costs of our failed response—the blighting of entire neighborhoods, and the needless sacrifice of whole generations.

Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua delve into intimate and sometimes hidden areas of personal life and social practice to observe and narrate the drama of Chinese individualization. The essays explore the remaking of the moral person during China’s profound social and economic transformation, unraveling the shifting practices and struggles of contemporary life.

“现象学社会学”是西方社会学研究领域中的重要理论取向之一。在中国社会学界，深入探讨现象学社会学的研究文献鲜有所见，试图将其应用于中国的社会和文化情景之中，以其特有的理论观点为指导，来从事对中国社会日常生活的经验研究，则更是凤毛麟角。近年来，北京大学社会学系杨善华教授及其学术团队以“日常生活中的现象学社会学分析”为旗帜，在这方面进行了一系列的尝试，本书即是该学术团队的部分研究成果。

本书由三篇写于不同时期的论文组成，分别从“个体与社会”、“自我意识和人类形象”、“我们—自我平衡”这三个相互联系的角度出发，来探讨社会和个人之间的关系。作者指出，人与人之间总是表现出种种互济的功能，正是这些功能的相互关联才构成了我们所谓的“社会”，因而从根本上说，一个人的个体性活动乃是他个人的社会性联系。但伴随着西方现代性时代的来临，人类获得了一种对自我的重新发现，这种新的自我意识和对人的认识改变了西方社会的组织结构及权力关系，使得个体和社会呈现出一种前所未有的分裂和对抗。本书在1988年因其在社会学和社会科学领域内的重大影响而获得欧洲阿玛尔菲奖。

本书描述了麦当劳在东亚五大城市：台北、香港、北京、东京、首尔，如何融入当地文化的成功经验。在跨国经营的背后，麦当劳其实十分重视文化差异这件事。麦当劳董事长詹姆士·坎特洛普曾说过，麦当劳的目标是“尽可能成为当地文化的一部分”，除了在各地积极举办各种社区活动外，当日本人觉得正餐一定要吃饭才吃得饱，又想吃烧烤的料理时，东京的麦当劳就从善如流，开始卖咖哩饭和照烧猪肉堡。在香港人的认知中，笑脸迎人必有诈，麦当劳就调整当地员工教育训练的方式，不去强调麦当劳一贯的微笑式服务。总之，麦当劳会根据不同的市场环境在经营方式上做调整。