First light, a review of five Canadian Introductory Sociology texts

J. PAUL GRAYSON (ed.)/ Introduction to Sociology: An Alternate Approach
ROBERT HAGEDORN (ed.), Sociology
M. MICHAEL ROSENBERG, WILLIAM B. SHAFFIR, ALLEN TUROWETZ, MORTON WEINFELD (eds.), An Introduction to Sociology
METTA SPENCER, Foundations of Modern Sociology
JAMES J. TEEVAN (ed.), Introduction to Sociology: A Canadian Focus     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Gunnel Tottie An Introduction to American English: A Resource Book for Students
Joan Cutting Pragmatics and Discourse
Peter Stockwell Sociolinguistics: A Resource Book for Students
Steven Clayman and John Heritage The News Interview: Journalists and Public Figures on Air     

Independent comment on Audio‐visual and Print Materials

Book reviewed in this article: Physical Holding in Psychotherapy. Michelle Webster An Introduction to Family Therapy: Systemic Theory and Practice. 2nd edn. R. Dallos & R. Draper Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder. James Lock, Daniel le Grange     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Barbara A. Fennell, A History of English: A Sociolinguistic Approach
Kevin McCafferty, Ethnicity and Language Change: English in (London)Derry, Northern Ireland
Pieter Muysken, Bilingual Speech: A Typology of Code-Mixing.
Ulrich Ammon (ed.), The Dominance of English as a Language of Science: Effects on Other Languages and Language Communities
Andrew Goatly, Critical Reading and Writing. An Introductory Coursebook
Ana Roca (ed.), Research on Spanish in the United States. Linguistic Issues and Challenges
Ishtla Singh, Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction     

Book Reviews

Gregory Guy, Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh (eds.). Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in Honor of William Labov .
Anna Duszak. Culture and Styles of Academic Discourse .
Barbara Johnstone. The Linguistic Individual: Self-expression in Language and Linguistics .
Alessandro Duranti. Linguistic Anthropology . William A. Foley. Anthropological Linguistics: An Introduction .     

Book reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
Wallace Clement. The Canadian Corporate Elite: An Analysis of Economic Power.
Dennis Forcese and Stephen Richer, Issues in Canadian Society: An Introduction to Sociology.
Elliott Leyton, Dying Hard: The Rnwges of industrial Crrrnnge.
James C. Hackler, Why Delinquency Prevention Programs in Canada Should Not be Evalyated.
Mark W. Novak, Living and Learning in the Free School.
Jean-Paul Hautecoeur, L'Acadie du discours.
Maria Campbell. Halfbreed.
Henry Zenter. The Indian Identity Crisis.
Louis-Edmond Hamelin. La Nordicité canadienne.
Joel S. Sawshinsky, The Trail of the Hare: Life and Stress in an Arctic Community.
Stewart Crysdai E and Jean-Paul Mont-Miny. Assisted by Henrique Urbano and Les Wheatcroft. La Religion Au Canada: Bi-bliographie annotée & (1945–1970)|Religion in Canada: Annotated Inventory (1945–1972).
John O' Neill. Making Sense Together: An Introduction to Wild Sociology.
Lloyd Axworthy and James M. Gillies (eds.), The City: Canada's Proapects, Canada's Problems.
Alan H. Portigal (ed.). Measuring the Quality of Working Life: A Symposium on Social Indicators of Working Life, Ottawa, March 19 und 20, 1973.
Jacques Grand'Maison, Des milieux de travail á réinventer.
Jacques Grand'Maison, Une tentative autogestion.
Jacques Grand'Maison, Le Prive et le Public.
David P. Shugarman (Ed.) Thinking about change.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. The UN and Development: From Aid to Co‐operation. By Olav Stokke. The Trouble with Aid: Why Less Could Mean More for Africa. By Jonathan Glennie. How the Aid Industry Works: An Introduction to International Development. By Arjan de Haan.     

Book Reviews/Comptes rendus

WENDA K. BAUCHSPIES, JENNIFER CROISSANT and SAL RESTIVO, Science, Technology, and Society: A Sociological Approach.
MATTHEW DAVID, Science in Society.
MARK ERICKSON, Science, Culture and Society: Understanding Science in the 21st Century.
DANIEL LEE KLEINMAN, Science and Technology in Society: From Biotechnology to the Internet.
SERGIO SISMONDO, An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies.
STEVEN YEARLEY, Making Sense of Science: Understanding the Social Study of Science.
FRANK J. LECHNER and JOHN BOLI, World Culture: Origins and Consequences.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Cohen, Stanley , States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering
Davie, Grace , Religion in Modern Europe: A Memory Mutates
Kaspersen, Lars Bo , Anthony Giddens: An Introduction to a Social Theorist
Giddens, Anthony , The Third Way and its Critics
Hakim, Catherine , Work-Lifestyle Choices in the 21^st Century: Preference Theory
Kiple, K.F. and Ornelas, K.C. (eds) , The Cambridge World History of Food
Young, Jock , The Exclusive Society: Crime and Difference in Late Modernity     

Reviews: Independent comment on Audio‐visual and Print Materials

Book reviewed in this article: Families, Systems & Health: The Journal of Collaborative Family HealthCare Published quarterly by Families, Systems & Health, Inc. Creative Encounters With Families: The Personal Journey of a Family Therapist No Lost Certainties to be Recovered; G. Kohon The Welfare of Children with Mentally Ill Parents, Learning from International Comparisons; R. Hetherington, K. Baistow, I. Katz, J. Mesie and J. Trowell Healing the Male Psyche: Therapy as Initiation; John Rowan There is No Such Thing as a Therapist: An Introduction to the Therapeutic Process; Carol A.V. Holmes     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Economics of Information Technology: An Introduction. By H.R. Varian, J. Farrell and C. Shapiro. The Information Revolution and Developing Countries. By E. J. Wilson. Indices and Indicators in Development: An Unhealthy Obsession with Numbers. By Stephen Morse. Putting Our House in Order: Recasting G8 Policy Towards Africa. By David Mepham and James Lorge. Land and Schooling: Transferring Wealth Across Generations. By Agnes R. Quisumbing, Jonna P. Estudillo and Keijiro Otsuka. Price, Principle and the Environment. By Mark Sagoff. The New Conditionality: The Politics of Poverty Reduction Strategies. Edited by Jeremy Gould. Give Us Your Best and Brightest: The Global Hunt for Talent and its Impact on the Developing World. By Devesh Kapur and John McHale.     

BOOK REVIEWS

book reviewed in this article:
The Tenacity of Prejudice: Anti-Semitism in Contemporary America. By G ertrude J. S elznick and S tephen S teinberg .
Indicators of Change in the American Family. By A bbott L. F erris .
Among the People: Encounters with the Poor. Edited by IRWIN DEUTSCHER and E lizabeth J. T hompson .
Sociological Theory, An Introduction. By W alter L. W allace .
The Age of Protest. Edited by W alt A nderson .
The University and Revolution. Edited by G ary R. W eaver and J ames W eaver     

BOOK NOTES

Books review in this article: Introduction to Statistical Ideas for Social Scientists by G. Kalton Non-parametric Trend Analysis by G. A. Ferguson Classes in Modem Society by T. B. Bottomore Married Life in an African Tribe by I. Schapera Readings in Early Anthropology edited by J. S. Slotkin Readings on Modern Sociology edited by Alex Inkeles The Ecological Perspective on Human Aifairs by Harold and Margaret Sprout Society and Culture by Francis E. Merrill An Introduction to Social Anthropology by Lucy Mair Understanding an African Kingdom: Bunyoro by John Beattie Essays on Comparative Institutions by S. Eisenstadt     

Essay Review: Marital Therapy, Monogamy, and Menagés

Fitzgerald, R. V. Conjoint Marital Therapy .
Foley, V. An Introduction to Family Therapy .
Smith J. & Smith L. Beyond Monogamy .     

Independent comment on Audio‐visual and Print Materials

Book reviewed in this article: Narrative Therapy: An Introduction for Counsellors Martin Payne Family Therapy: The Field's Past, Present and Possible Futures Volume 1 Case Studies in Couple and Family Therapy: Systemic and Cognitive Perspectives Dattilio, F. M. (Ed.) Child‐Focused Practice: A Collaborative Systemic Approach Jim Wilson BabyTalk: The Pioneering Book that will Change Childcare Forever Sally Ward 201 Questions to Ask Your Kids Pepper Schwartz Teen Pregnancy and Parenting — Social and Ethical Issues James Wong and David Checkland (Eds) The Fundamentals of Family Mediation J. M. Haynes and S. Charlesworth Family Group Conferences in Child Welfare Peter Marsh and Gill Crow Single Session Family Staging: Breaking Family Spells E. Zawidowski     

Book reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Aldridge, Alan Religion in the Contemporary World: A Sociological Introduction
Diamond, Ian and Jefferies, Julie Beginning Statistics: An Introduction for Social Scientists
Girling, Evi, Loader, Ian and Sparks, Richard Crime and Social Change in Middle England: Questions of Order in an English Town
Houtkoop-Steenstra, Hanneke Interaction and the Standardized Survey Interview: The Living Questionnaire
Lee, Raymond M. Unobtrusive Methods in Social Research
Marquand, David and Nettler, Ronald L. (eds) Religion and Democracy
Ann Oakley, Experiments in Knowing: Gender and Method in the Social Sciences
Smaje, Chris Natural Hierarchies: The Historical Sociology of Race and Caste
Wilson, William Julius The Bridge Over the Racial Divide: Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics     

Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
MURDOCK, GEORGE PETER, and TIMOTHY J. o'leary (eds.), Ethnographic bibliography of North America .
wiliam cowan (ed.), Papers of the Sixth Algonquiun Conference, 1974 .
william cowan, (ed)., Papers of the Seventh Algonquian Conference, 1975 .
cyril S. belshaw, The Sorcerer's Apprentice: An Anthropology of Public Policy .
elliott leyton, The One Blood: Kinship and Class in an Irish Village .
HUGH brody, The People's Land: Eskimos and Whites in the Eastern Arctic .
irving goldman, The Mouth of Heaven: An Introduction to Kwakiutl Religious Thought
elizabeth graham, Medicine Man to Missionary: Missionaries as Agents of Change Among the Indians of Southern Ontario, 1784–1867 .
Wolfgang g. jilek, Salish Indian Mental Health and Culture Change .
della kew and P.E. goddard, Indian Art and Culture of the Northwest Coast
Margaret a. stott. Bella Coola Ceremony and Art
john anson warner, The Life and Art of the North American Indian
The Green Paper on Immigration . Special issue of Canadian Ethnic Studies/Etudes Ethniques du Conada     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Ecology and Society: An Introduction Luke Martell
Animal to Edible Noëlie Vialles (translated from the French by J.A. Underwood)
Challenging Medicine Jonathan Gabe
The Social Organisation of Mental Illness Lindsay Prior
Health and Health Care in Britain Rob Baggott
Mothering: Ideology, Experience, and Agency Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Anorexic Bodies: A Feminist and Sociological Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa Morag MacSween
Self-consciousness: An Alternative Anthropology of Identity Anthony Cohen
The Cultural Turn: Scene Setting Essays on Contemporary Cultural History David Chaney
Postmodernism and Popular Culture Angela McRobbie
Cinema and Modernity John Orr
Baudrillard and Signs: Signification Ablaze G. Genosko
Travellers' Tales: Narratives of Home and Displacement George Robertson
Museum Culture Histories, Discourses, Spectacles, Sherman, D. and Rogoff, I. (eds)
Television and Everyday Life Roger Silverstone
The Sociology of Deviance: an Obituary Colin Sumner
The Electronic Eye: The Rise of Surveillance Society David Lyon
Some Trouble with Cows: Making Sense of Social Conflict Beth Roy
'Race', Ethnicity and Nation: International Perspectives on Social Conflict Peter Ratcliffe, (ed.)
Constructions of Race, Place and Nation P. Jackson and J. Penrose (eds)     

Independent Comment on Audio‐Visual and Print Materials

Book reviewed in this article: 101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens: Using Metaphors in Therapy. George W. Burns Attachment Processes in Couple and Family Therapy. Susan Johnson and Valerie Whiffen (Eds) An Introduction to Marriage and Family Therapy. Lorna L. Hecker and Joseph L. Wetchler (Eds) Experiential Psychotherapy with Couples — A Guide for the Creative Pragmatist. Rob Fisher The Practical Practice of Marriage and Family Therapy: Things My Training Supervisor Never Told Me. Mark Odell & Charles E. Campbell Using Workbooks in Mental Health: Resources in Prevention, Psychotherapy and Rehabilitation for Clinicians and Researchers. Luciano L'Abate (Ed.) The Therapy Triangle: Empowering You with the Knowledge to Heal Emotional Cutoff: Bowen Family Systems Theory Perspectives. Peter Titelman (Ed.) Clinical Applications of Bowen Family Systems Theory. Peter Titelman (Ed.)     

Book reviews: Desire: The politics of sexuality

Abstract

Snitow, Ann and Stansell, Christine and Thompson, Sharon. Virago, 1984. £6.50. (Reviewed by Elizabeth A. Smith)

Research Highlights: No.6 Working with Children

Department of Social Work, Aberdeen. £4.50. (Reviewed by Elizabeth A. Smith)

An Introduction to Therapeutic Communities

Kennard, David and Roberts, Jeff. Routledge and Kegan Paul. £5.95 Paperback. (Reviewed by Pauline Cunningham)