Book Review: Ali Shariati: Expanding the Sociological Canon
Book Review: Ali Shariati: Expanding the Sociological Canon
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书评：阿里·沙里亚蒂：扩展社会学经典
DOI：
10.1177/1468795x211059877
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
0.7
通讯作者：
B. Turner
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作者：
B. Turner
在旧制度下不会出版的书。亚当·亚米（Adam Yamey）是一位退休牙医，也是伦敦经济学院教授的儿子，他通过书中提到的一家自助出版公司Lulu出版了几本关于伦敦、英国各地历史、印度侨民的社会运动、巴尔干半岛旅行、他的曾祖父（他是一位犹太裔南非政治家）以及其他具有强烈“社会”内容的历史题材的书。他的博客和网页（adam-yamey-writes.com）非常专业，与数字化专业学者制作的网页没有区别。有了这样的书籍和网页，学术出版和自助出版产品之间的差距缩小到几乎为零，特别是当传统出版商寻求“内容”作为订阅数字服务的一部分向图书馆推销，并将更多的推广和生产工作卸载给作者时，中间形式，如由学术图书馆运营的即时免费下载的“出版社”出现了。鉴于开放获取的成本和学术出版的费用引起的混乱，人们不禁要问，这一差距是否会消失。一些学者已经迈出了这一步，比如已故的Hans Zetterberg，他使用了亚马逊的Pinterest Space。也许这就是知识分子生活民主化的技术基础，以及大学和名人知识分子的去中心化。
books that would not have been published under the old regime. Adam Yamey, a retired dentist and son of an LSE Professor, has published, through Lulu, a self-publishing company discussed in the book, several books about London, the history of places in Britain, the social movements of the Indian diaspora, travel in the Balkans, his great-grandfather, who was a Jewish South African politician, and other historical topics with a strong “social” content. His blog and webpage (https://adam-yamey-writes.com) are nicely professional and indistinguishable from the pages digitally competent academics produce. With books and pages like this the gap between the products of academic publishing and self-publishing narrows to almost nothing, especially as traditional publishers seek “content” to market to libraries as parts of subscription digital services and off-load more of the work of promotion and production to authors, and intermediate forms, such as “presses” run by academic libraries with instant free downloading, emerge. Given the turmoil over the costs of open access and the expense of academic publishing, one wonders whether the gap will simply vanish. Some academics have taken the leap already, such as the late Hans Zetterberg, who used Amazon’s CreateSpace. Perhaps this is the technological foundation for the democratization of intellectual life, and the decentering of universities and celebrity intellectuals.