Contents
Unit 1
Text A Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy, 2000
Text B China's Advocate: A Review of Kenneth Pomeranz's The Great Divergence
Unit 2
Text A The City: A Global History
Text B Does Language Shape Thought? Mandarin and English Speakers' Conceptions of Time
Unit 3
Text A Metaphors We Live By
Text B A Survey of the Interpersonal Rhetoric
Unit 4
Text A The Art of Loving: The Theory of Love
Text B Chapter 11 Attraction and Intimacy: Liking and Loving Others
Unit 5
Text A Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the TwentiethCentury World
Text B One Hundred Years of Solitude
Unit 6
Text A What Pragmatism Means (Part Ⅰ)
Text B What Pragmatism Means (Part Ⅱ)
Unit 7
Text A The Limits of Philosophical Knowledge
Text B The Value of Philosophy
Unit 8
Text A The Nature of Sociology (Excerpted)
Text B Basic Concepts in Sociology
Unit 9
Text A What Is a Society?
Text B Reflections upon the Sociology of Herbert Spencer
Unit 10
Text A The Sociological Imagination
Text B The Characteristics of Usable Hypotheses
Unit 11
Text A Max Weber: On Bureaucracy
Text B Bureaucratic Structure and Personality
Unit 12
Text A Play, the Game, and the Generalized Other From Mind, Self and Society
Text B“Living in the World”: Dilemmas of the Self