中国的精英青少年们如何获得地位? 以及为什么这有助于他们成功? 《学神》展示了中国青年如何准备自己加入全球精英行列。上海纽约大学社会学助理教授社会学助理教授姜以琳展示了这些好胜的中国高中生是如何首先成为 学神 的,学神是指学业成绩优异的学生。然而,不断学习并不能解释他们的成功,因为这些年轻人在毫不费力地取得种种卓越成就。相反,姜探索精英青少年如何通过吸收和执行围绕地位的规则来取得成就。 通过八年的实地考察和大量访谈,姜揭示了中国青年在追求精英地位的过程中所吸取的重要教训。他们了解地位体系的等级制度,认识到并获得有价值的特征。他们通过期望区别对待和执行基于地位的行为来维持地位,这些行为指导他们与同龄人、老师和父母的日常互动。最后,在足智多谋的父母的帮助下,面对潜在的障碍和失败,他们
Society Of Mind 内容简介 Marvin Minsky -- one of the fathers of computer science and cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT -- gives a revolutionary answer to the age-old question: "How does the mind work?" Minsky brilliantly portrays the mind as a "society" of tiny components that are themselves mindless. Mirroring his theory, Minsky boldly casts The Society of Mind as an intellectual puzzle whose pieces are assembled along the way. Each chapter -- on a self-contained page -- corresponds to a piece in the puzzle. As the pages turn, a unified theory of the mind emerges, like a mosaic. Ingenious, amusing, and easy to read, The Society of Mind is an adventure in imagination. 编辑推荐 For some artificial intelligence researchers, Minsky's book is too far removed from hard science to be useful. For others, the high-level approach of The Society of Mind makes it a gold mine of ideas waiting to be implemented. The author, one of the undisputed
Benjamin Franklin : An American Life Editorial Reviews Benjamin Franklin, writes journalist and biographer Walter Isaacson, was that rare Founding Father who would sooner wink at a passer-by than sit still for a formal portrait. What's more, Isaacson relates in this fluent and entertaining biography, the revolutionary leader represents a political tradition that has been all but forgotten today, one that prizes pragmatism over moralism, religious tolerance over fundamentalist rigidity, and social mobility over class privilege. That broadly democratic sensibility allowed Franklin his contradictions, as Isaacson shows. Though a man of lofty principles, Franklin wasn't shy of using sex to sell the newspapers he edited and published; though far from frivolous, he liked his toys and his mortal pleasures; and though he sometimes gave off a simpleton image, he was a shrewd and even crafty politician. Isaacson doesn't shy from enumerating Franklin s occasional peccadilloes and shortcomings, in keepi