Reviews

Barbara S. Held, Back To Reality: A Critique Of Postmodern Theory In Psychotherapy Michael R. Butz, Linda L. Chamberlain And William G. Mccown, Strange Attractors; Chaos, Complexity, And The Art Of Family Therapy Michael J. Mahoney, Human Change Processes: The Scientific Foundations Of Psychotherapy James Hillman And Michael Ventura, We've Had A Hundred Years Of Psychotherapy—And The World's Getting Worse Renos K. Papadopoulos And John Byng-Hall (Eds), Multiple Voices; Narrative In Systemic Family Psychotherapy Haim Omer, Critical Interventions In Psychotherapy: From Impasse To Turning Point Donald R. Bardill, The Relational Systems Model For Family Therapy: Living In The Four Realities     

Reviews

Kathryn Geldard and David Geldard, Counselling Children; A Practical Introduction Cynthia L. Schultz and Noel Schultz, Care For Caring Parents, Leader's Manual And Parent's Program Booklet For Parents Of Children With Special Needs Mark Katz, On Playing A Poor Hand Well: Insights From The Lives Of Those Who Have Overcome Childhood Risks And Adversities Joseph Sandler, Christopher Dare, Anna Ursula Dreher, Freud's Models Of The Mind; An Introduction Ruth Schmidt Neven, Emotional Milestones: From Birth To Adulthood: A Psychodynamic approach Philip E. Slater, The Glory Of Hera: Greek Mythology And The Greek Family A. Borowski, J. O'Connor (Eds), Juvenile Crime Justice & Corrections Gail S. Goodman and Bette L. Bottoms, Child Victims, Child Witnesses: Understanding And Improving Testimony Susan Allport, A Natural History Of Parenting (From Emperor Penguins To Reluctant Ewes, A Naturalist Looks At How Parenting Differs In The Animal World And Ours) Aldo Gurgone, Couple Communication: Understanding Each Other. [Video], And Fair Fighting: Getting Closer Not Breaking Up [Video] R.D. Hinshelwood, Therapy Or Coercion: Does Psychoanalysis Differ From Brainwashing? Judith Paphazy, The Troublesome Years: Parenting Adolescents Alex J Packer, Parenting One Day At A Time: Using The Tools Of Recovery To Become Better Parents And Raise Better Kids     

Register of research in social work

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Child Support A Practitioner'S Guide Jan Bowen (1994), Law Book Co., North Ryde, 293 pp. $ 45.00 (paper)

The Independent Social Security Handbook, Welfare Rights Centre (1994), Pluto Press, Leichhardt, 575 pp. $ 29.95 (paper)

Cultures Of Crime And Violence: The Australian Experience Bessant, J. Carrington, K. and Cook, S. (eds.), La Trobe University Press, in association with the Victorian Law Foundation, Melbourne. 221 pp. $ 24.95 (paper) Australia.

Leaving The Fold: A Guide For Former Fundamentalists And Others Leaving Their Religion M. Winell (1993) New Harbinger Publications, Inc. Oakland, CA. 297pp. $ 22.95 (paper) (Available direct from the distributor Boobook Publications, PO Box 163, Tea Gardens NSW 2324, phone (049) 970 811 or through all good bookshops.) Reriatha Reed Social Work Student La Trobe University Albury/Wodonga Campus     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Grete Brochmann and Tomas Hammar, Mechanisms of Immigration Control. A Comparative Analysis of European Regulation Policies Janet McLellan, Many Petals of the Lotus: Five Asian Buddhist Communities in Toronto Graham P. Chapman, Ashok K. Dutt and Robert W. Bradnock, Urban Growth and Development in Asia, Volume II, Living in the Cities Nicholas Hear Van, New Diasporas: The Mass Exodus, Dispersal And Regrouping Of Migrant Communities Laksiri Jayasuriya and Kee Pookong, The Asianisation of Australia? Some Facts about the Myths     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World. By Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart. Development Economics through the Decades: A Critical Look at 30 Years of the World Development Report. By Shahid Yusuf, with Angus Deaton, Kemal Dervis, William Easterly, Takatoshi Ito and Joseph E. Stiglitz. Protracted Refugee Situations: Political, Human Rights and Security Implications. Edited by Gil Loescher, James Milner, Edward Newman and Gary Troeller. Inclusion and Exclusion in Local Governance: Field Studies from Rural India. Edited by B. S. Baviskar and George Mathew. Women's Land Rights and Privatisation in Eastern Africa. Edited by B. Englert and E. Daley. Gender Sensitive Disaster Management: A Toolkit For Practitioners: How To Incorporate Gender Mainstreaming in Disaster Response and Preparedness. By C. Pincha. Making Sense of Global Health Governance: A Policy Perspective. Edited by Kent Buse, Wolfgang Hein and Nick Drager.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Campus Power Strggle edited by Howard S. Becker. Theory Construction: From Verbal to Mathematical Formulations by H. M. Blalock. Personality and Religion: The Rôle of Religon in Personality Development edited by William A. Sadler Jr. Social Relations in a Secondary School by David H. Hargreaves. Society and Economic Growth: A Behavioural Perspective of Social Change by J. H. Kunkel. Sociology, Histroy and Education: A Reader edited by P. W. Musgrave. Social Research and Social Policy by Howard E. Freeman and Clarence C. Sherwood. The Emergence of Society by C. K. Warriner. The Philosophy of Social Science by Alan Ryan. Television and Delinquency by J. D. Halloran, R. L. Brown and D. C. Chaney. Foster Care: Theory and Practice by V. George. The Sociological Study of Religion by R. Scharf. Basic Readings in the Sociology of Education edited by D. F. Swift. Social System and Time and Space by J. Kolaja. I Data Bases, Computers, and the Social Sciences edited by R. L. Bisco. II Cluster Analysis by R. C. Tryon and D. E. Bailey. Whose City? And Other Essays on Sociology and Planning by R. E. Pahl.     

Reviews

Kent Smith, The Regeneration Trilogy Jac Brown, Our Families, Our Values: Snapshots Of Queer Kinship Sarah Calvert, Beyond Blood: Writings On The Lesbian And Gay Family Dawn Baker, Among Generations: The Cycle Of Adult Relationships Deborah Martin-Smith, Beyond The Prison: Gathering Dreams Of Freedom     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Applicability of Organisational Sociology by Chris Argyris. Youth in Modern Society edited by Shirley M. Clark and John P. Clark. The Evangelistic Bureaucrat: A Study of a Planning Exercise in Newcastle upon Tyne by Jon Gower Davies. For Marx by L. Althusser. The Sociology of Marx by H. Lefebvre. Two Worlds of Childhood: U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. by Urie Bronfen-brenner. Women at Work by Beatrice Musgrave and Joan Wheeler-Bennett. A History of the Mental Health Services by Kathleen Jones. New Directions in Sociological Theory by Paul Filmer et al. The Sociology of Education by P. W. Musgrave. and The Sociology of Education: An Introduction by I. Morrish. Language and Social Behaviour by W. P. Robinson. Political Sociology by Robert E. Dowse and John A. Hughes. Suburbia by David C. Thorns. Sociological Analysis by A. Sahay. Sentencing the Motoring Offender by Roger Hood.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Negotiating Trade: Developing Countries in the WTO and NAFTA. Edited by John S. Odell Managing the Challenges of WTO Participation: 45 Case Studies. Edited by Peter Gallagher, Patrick Low and Andrew L. Stoler A Radical History of Development Studies: Individuals, Institutions and Ideologies. Edited by Uma Kothari The Business of Projects: Managing Innovations in Complex Products and Systems. By Andrew Davies and Michael Hobday World Investment Report 2004: The Shift Towards Services. By the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Natural Resources and Economic Development. By B. Barbier The Broken Mosaic: For an Economics Beyond Equations. By Ladislau Dowbor ICTs and Indian Economic Development. Edited by A. Saith and M. Vijayabaskar Globalisation and the International Financial System: What's Wrong and What Can Be Done. By Peter Isard The Russian Far East: A Reference Guide for Conservation and Development. Edited by John Newell Capital and Collusion: The Political Logic of Global Economic Development. By Hilton Root The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir. By Fernando Henrique Cardoso with Brian Winter Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free Marketeers. By Javier Santiso Globalization, Politics and Financial Turmoil: Asia's Banking Crisis. By Shanker Satyanath     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Faces of Feminism: A Study of Feminism as a Social Movement, Olive Banks Small Entrepreneurs in Changing Europe: Towards a Research Agenda, Jeremy Boissevan The Entrepreneurial Middle Class, Richard Scase and Robert Goffee The Logic of Social Action. An Introduction to Sociological Analysis, Raymond Boudon The Unintended Consequences of Social Action, Raymond Boudon Thinking Photography, Victor Burgin (ed.) The Politics of Pop Festivals, Michael Clarke One For the Money: Politics and Popular Song, Dave Harker Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence, G. A. Cohen Cooking, Cuisine and Class, Jack Goody The German Social Democratic Party, W. L. Guttsman The Creation of World Poverty, An Alternative View to the Brandt Report, Teresa Hayter The Bureaucratic Leviathan–A Study in the Sociology of Communism, Maria Hirszowicz Culture and Society in Contemporary Europe: A Casebook, S. Hoffman and P. Kitromiledes (eds) Advances in Social Theory and Methodology: Towards an Integration of Micro- and Macro-Sociologies, Karin Knorr-Cetina and Aaron Cicourel, (eds) Johnsonville: Continuity and Change in a New Zealand Township, David Pearson An Island Polity: the archaeology of exploitation in Melos, Colin Renfrew and Malcolm Wagstaff (eds) On Becoming a Rock Musician, H. Stith Bennet The Population History of England 1541–1871: A Reconstruction E. A. Wrigley and R. S. Schofield Policing the City, Rob Mawby Frames of Meaning: The Social Construction of Extraordinary Science, H.M. Collins and T.J. Pinch Field Research: A Sourcebook and Field Manual, Ed. Robert G. Burgess The History of Marxism: vol I, Marxism in Marx's Day, Ed. E. J. Hobsbawm Modern Interpretations of Marx, Tom Bottomore Ed. Hooligans or Rebels? An Oral History of Working-Class Childhood and Youth 1889–1939, Stephen Humphries Housing and Identity – cross-cultural Perspectives Ed. James S. Duncan.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Environmental and Natural Resources Issues : Arizpe , Lourdes , M. Priscilla Stone, and David C. Majors (eds.). Population and Environment: Rethinking the Debate. Environmental and Natural Resources Issues : Lund , Jens . Flatheads and Spooneys: Fishing for a Living in the Ohio River Valley. Environmental and Natural Resources Issues : Du Puis , Melanie E. And Peter Pendergrass (eds.) Creating the Countryside: The Politics of Rural and Environmental Discourse. Environmental and Natural Resources Issues : Kromm , David E. And Stephen E. White (eds.). Groundwater Exploitation in the High Plains. Environmental and Natural Resources Issues : Vickers , Daniel . Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630–1850. International Issues : Wilson , Richard . 1995. Maya Resurgence in Guatemala: Q'eqchi' Experiences. International Issues : Jeffrey , Patricia and Roger Jeffrey . Don't Marry Me to a Plowman! Women's Everyday Lives in Rural North India. International Issues : Weaver , Frederick S. Inside the Volcano: The History and Political Economy of Central America. International Issues : Wachtel , Nathan . Gods and Vampires, Return to Chapaya. Rural Politics : Finegold , Kenneth and Theda Skocpol . State and Party in America's New Deal. Rural Politics : Watkins , Marilyn P. Rural Democracy: Family Farmers and Politics in Western Washington, 1890–1925. Rural Culture and Rural Development : Rowley , Thomas D., David W. Sears , Glenn L. Nelson , J. Norman Reid, and Mervin J. Yetley (eds.). Rural Development Research: A Foundation for Policy. Rural Culture and Rural Development : Billson , Janet Mancini . Keepers of the Culture: The Power of Tradition in Women's Lives. Rural Culture and Rural Development : Sontag , M. Suzanne and Margaret M. Bubolz . Families on Small Farms: Case Studies in Human Ecology. Rural Culture and Rural Development : Rank , Mark Robert . Living on the Edge: The Realities of Welfare in America. Rural Culture and Rural Development : Scott , Shaunna L. Two Sides to Everything: The Cultural Construction of Class Consciousness in Harlan County, Kentucky.     

Should we expect commitment?

And I, who felt my head surrounded by horrors, Said: Master, what then is it that I am hearing? And what people are these, so crushed by pain?     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Environmental Issues : Bartsch , Charles and Elizabeth Collaton . Brownfields: Cleaning and Reusing Contaminated Properties. Environmental Issues : Vanclay , Frank And Geoffrey Lawrence . The Environmental Imperative: Eco-Social Concerns for Australian Agriculture. Social Movements : Carbert, Louise I. Agrarian Feminism: The Politics of Ontario Farm Women. Social Movements : Stock , Catherine Mc Nicol . Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the American Grain. Social Theory : Campbell , Colin . The Myth of Social Action. Agriculture : Thurston , H. David . Slash/Mulch Systems: Sustainable Methods for Tropical Agriculture. Agriculture : Nadeau , E. G. and David J. Thompson . Cooperation Works!     

Book Reviews

Women's Work Is Never Done: Comparative Studies in Care‐Giving, Employment, and Social Policy Reform. Sylvia Bashevkin. (Ed.) Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging. Margaret Cruikshank. How Families Still Matter: A Longitudinal Study of Youth in Two Generations. Vern L. Bengtson, Timothy J. Biblarz, & Robert E. L. Roberts. New Family Values: Liberty, Equality, Diversity. Karen Struening. Involved Fathering and Men's Adult Development: Provisional Balances. Rob Palkovitz. For Better and for Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well‐Being of Children and Families. Greg J. Duncan & P. Lindsay Chase‐Lansdale. (Eds.) The Power of Good Deeds: Privileged Women and the Social Reproduction of the Upper Class. Diana Kendall. Child Care and Inequality: Rethinking Carework for Children and Youth. Francesca M. Cancian, Demie Kurz, Andrew S. London, Rebecca Reviere, & Mary C. Tuominen.     

Percival Kirby’s wax cylinders: elegy on archiving a deaf spot

Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe. London: Heinemann, 1987.

Language Policy and National Unity in South Africa/Azania by Neville Alexander. Cape Town: Buchu Books, 1989.

Black Valour: The South African Native Labour Contingent and the Sinking of the ‘Mendi’ by Norman Clothier. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1987.

The Devils Are Among Us. The War For Namibia by Denis Herbstein and John Evenson. London: Zed Press, 1989.

Modernising Hunger: Famine, Food Surplus and Farm Policy in the EEC and Africa by Philip Raikes. London: Catholic Institute for International Relations with James Currey and Heinemann, 1988.

Childhood in Crossroads. Cognition and Society in South Africa by Pamela Reynolds. Cape Town: David Phillip, 1989.

The Praises of Dingana (Izibongo zikaDingana) edited by D.K. Rycroft and A.B. Ngcobo. Durban: Killie Campbell Africana Library and Pietermaritz‐burg: University of Natal Press, 1988.

Matigari by Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Translated from the Gikuyu by Wangui wa Goro London: Heinemann African Writers Series, 1989.     

A/H1N1 Vaccine Intentions in College Students: An Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior

Abstract

Objective: To test the applicability of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) in college students who have not previously received the A/H1N1 vaccine. Participants: Undergraduate communication students at a metropolitan southern university. Methods: In January–March 2010, students from voluntarily participating communication classes completed a hardcopy survey assessing TPB and clinically significant constructs. Hierarchical regression equations predicted variance in vaccine intentions of students who had not received a flu shot (N = 198; 70% Caucasian). Results: The TPB model explained 51.7% (p < .001) of variance in vaccine intentions. Controlling for side effects, self-efficacy and perceived comparative susceptibility predicted intentions when entered in the first block, whereas attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control significantly contribute when entered in the second block. Conclusions: For students who have not previously received a flu vaccine, vaccine communication should utilize self-efficacy and perceived comparative susceptibility to employ the TPB to promote vaccine intentions.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Research Act in Sociology: A Theoretical Introduction to Socio-logical Methods by Norman K. Denzin. Sociological Methods: A Source-book by Norman K. Denzin. The Sociology of Sport: A Selection of Readings edited by Eric Dunning. Status Passage by Barney G. Glaser and A. L. Strauss. Prices, Markets and Welfare by David CoUard. A Family Business: Kinship and Social Control in Organized Crime by F. A. J. and E. R. Ianni. Cave Dwellers and Citrus Growers: A Jewish Community in Libya and Israel by Harvey E. Goldberg. The English Prison Officer Since 1850: A Study in Conflict by J. E. Thomas. Concepts and Society by Ian C. Jarvie. The Sociology of Art by Jean Duvignaud, translated by Timothy Wilson. Medicine Takers, Prescribers and Hoarders by Karen Dunnell and Ann Cartwright. Civilisation and Science: In Conflict or Collaboration? by H. Bloch et al. Welfare versus Freedom by Evan Bitsaxis. Interpreting Education: A Sociological Approach edited by Lawrence W. Drabick. Motherless Families by Victor George and Paul Wilding.     

Book Reviews

Free Trade: Myths, Reality and Alternatives. By Graham Dunkley. Agriculture and the WTO: Creating a Trading System for Development. Edited by Merlinda D. Ingco and John D. Nash. Competitiveness Strategy in Developing Countries: A Manual for Policy Analysis. Edited by Ganeshan Wignaraja. Ploughing Up The Farm: Neoliberalism, Modern Technology and the State of the World's Farmers. By Jerry Buckland. The Divergent Dynamics of Economic Growth: Studies in Adaptive Economizing, Technological Change, and Economic Development. By Richard H. Day. Survival for a Small Planet: The Sustainable Development Agenda. Edited by Tom Bigg. Measuring Sustainability: Learning from Doing. By Simon Bell and Stephen Morse. Structural Adjustment: The Policy Roots of Economic Crisis, Poverty and Inequality. By SAPRIN. Elusive Equity: Education Reform in Post‐Apartheid South Africa. By Edward B. Fiske and Helen F. Ladd. The Virtuous Vice: Globalization. Edited by Siamack Shojai and Robert Christopherson. Knowledge For Development? Comparing British, Japanese, Swedish and World Bank Aid. By Kenneth King and Simon McGrath. The Contemporary Caribbean. By Robert B. Potter, David Barker, Dennis Conway and Thomas Klak.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Suicides by Jean Baechler. Philosophical Disputes in the Social Sciences, by S. C. Brown (ed.) Social Research and Royal Commissions by M. Bulmer (ed.) Official Discourse by Frank Burton and Pat Carlen The View from Goffman by Jason Ditton (ed.) Greek Homosexuality by K. J. Dover The Sociology of Rock by Simon Frith Marx and Mead: Contributions to a Sociology of knowledge by T. W. Goff Crime and Conflict in English Communities, 1300–1348 by Barbara A. Hanawalt Demystifying Social Statistics, by John Irvine et al. (eds.) For Science in the Social Sciences, by David Papineau Marxism and Class Theory, by Frank Parkin The Material Word: Some Theories of Language and its Limits by David Silverman and Brian Torode Ethics and Society in England: The Revolution in the Social Sciences, 1870–1914 by Reba N. Softer Street Ethnography by Robert S. Weppner (ed.) On Clichés by Anton C. Zijderveld     

Urban politics and the study of urban poverty: Promising developments and future directions

The study of urban poverty is alive and well in sociology. The study of urban politics, by contrast, has stagnated. Though scholars agree that politics shapes the creation and durability of urban poverty, analytical connections between the two subfields are rarely made explicit. In this article, I make the case for a more integrated body of research. I first illustrate how urban poverty scholars implicitly discuss politics, and conversely, how urban politics scholars implicitly discuss poverty. I then highlight recent developments in the literature and propose two paths forward—by no means the only paths forward, but two ways to jumpstart greater conversation across both subfields. For the urban poverty literature, a focus on organizations can help scholars analyze political dynamics more directly. And for the urban politics literature, an emphasis on political mechanisms rather than overarching perspectives can disrupt the current theoretical malaise. These two moves can advance both literatures while drawing them closer together.