Book Reviews

Berg, Ivar and Kalleberg, Arne L. Sourcebook of Labor Markets: Evolving Structures and Processes
Boyne, R. Risk
Castells, Manuel and Himanen, Pekka The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model
Glasius, Marlies, Kaldor, Mary and Anheier, Helmut (eds) Global Civil Society 2002
Handel, Michael J. The Sociology of Organizations: Classic, Contemporary, and Critical Readings
Klinenberg, Eric Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
Moss, Pamela and Dyck, Isabel Women, Body, Illness: Space and Identity in the Everyday Lives of Women with Chronic Illness
O'Hearn, Denis The Atlantic Economy: Britain, the US and Ireland
Perrow, Charles Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism
Sharot, Stephen A Comparative Sociology of World Religions: Virtuosos, Priests, and Popular Religion
Sklair, Leslie The Transnational Capitalist Class
Wagner, Peter Theorizing Modernity: Inescapability and Attainability in Social Theory     

Effective management of adolescents with anorexia and bulimia

1. Anorexia and bulimia are common among adolescents, and both are complex, chronic disorders with high comorbidity and significant complications and mortality. 2. Eating disorders cultivate shame, denial, and lack of insight, making treatment difficult and necessitating careful development of a therapeutic alliance. 3. Treatment goals are to correct the biological and psychological sequelae, prevent or correct complications, restore normal eating patterns, reduce binging and purging, promote understanding and change in dysfunctional behaviors and attitudes, improve intrapersonal and interpersonal functioning, restore normal exercise patterns, and address comorbid psychopathology and psychological conflicts.     

Racial,Ethnic, and National Boundaries: Sexual Intersections and Symbolic Interactions

Sex and race are strained, if not strange, bedfellows. Sexual depictions and denigrations of racial, ethnic, and national “others” and the regulation of in‐group sexual behavior are important mechanisms by which ethnic boundaries are constructed, maintained, and defended. Race, ethnicity, and the nation are sexualized, and sexuality is racialized, ethnicized, and nationalized. The sexual systems that prop up ethnic boundaries and define ethnic identities and communities tend to be inherently conservative blueprints for ethnosexual living. These systems stress endogamy, heterosexuality and reproduction under the rubric of traditional, often patriarchal family life for ethnic group members and tend to demonize and denigrate the sexuality of those outside ethnic boundaries or of those within ethnic communities who do not conform to heteronormative, heteroconventional models of sexuality. I present several examples of the intersections of race, ethnicity, nationalism, and sexuality/ies from U.S. and international settings, and I argue that the symbolic interaction between ethnicity and sexuality is central to their mutual constitution.     

中国青年文化景观的形成轨迹与引导理路

中华人民共和国成立以来,特别是改革开放以来,青年文化发展出现服从与反思、解放与迷茫、理性与矛盾勾勒的变迁图景,也反映出新时代青年文化的发展趋向。新时代的青年文化景观既具有青年文化的预见性与超越性、进取性和建构性、理想性和生活性等共性特征,又突出表现为雅俗共赏、进退有度、家国兼顾的时代特性。新时代,应注重从个人追求与社会理想的统一、独立思想与过硬本领的统一、青春热情与社会担当的统一几方面入手,突出政治引领、思想引领、责任引领在青年文化引导上的关键作用,推动青年文化持续向前发展。     

Queer Domicide

ABSTRACT

This article examines lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) experiences of displacement, home loss, and rebuilding in the face of natural disasters. LGBT vulnerability and resilience are little studied in disaster research; this article begins to fill this gap, focusing on LGBT domicide—how LGBT homes are “unmade” in disasters. To do this, we critically read a range of non-government, scholarly, and media commentaries on LGBT experiences of natural disasters in various settings over 2004–12, including South Asia, the USA, Haiti, and Japan. Additionally, we utilize preliminary data from pilot work on LGBT experiences of 2011 disasters in Brisbane, Australia, and Christchurch, New Zealand. we find that disaster impacts are the first stage of ongoing problems for sexual and gender minorities. Disaster impacts destroy LGBT residences and neighborhoods, but response and recovery strategies favor assistance for heterosexual nuclear families and elide the concerns and needs of LGBT survivors. Disaster impact, response, and recovery “unmakes” LGBT home and belonging, or inhibits homemaking, at multiple scales, from the residence to the neighborhood. we focus on three scales or sites: first, destruction of individual residences, and problems with displacement and rebuilding; second, concerns about privacy and discrimination for individuals and families in temporary shelters; and third, loss and rebuilding of LGBT neighborhoods and community infrastructure (e.g. leisure venues and organizational facilities).     

Dynamic multilevel governance for sustainable transformation as postnational configuration

Modern societies are increasingly having to cope with profound socio-political transformations, such as the transition from fossil energy production and consumption to more sustainable energy systems. Transformations ignite dynamics, processes, and forces, which induce new challenges for traditional structures and orders because major changes in society and politics are shifting from established manners, customs, and modes of behavior to new norms and values. Transformations cause epistemological uncertainty and complexity and challenge ontological fundaments and ethical convictions. National structures alone are not adequate to the task of handling the corresponding challenges because the capacity of domestic politics and regulations is too weak to achieve eligible political outcomes that can guide and structure transformations. In this light, I argue for a form of dynamic multilevel governance as a postnational configuration that has the capability and power to reform and transfigure institutions, structure and agency, hierarchies, cultural fabrics, socio-technical systems, and infrastructures toward new social and political orders. I theoretically and normatively conceptualize and justify three major governance framework conditions as hallmarks of dynamic multilevel governance, namely inclusiveness, adaptiveness, and distributed and differentiated deliberation. These capabilities produce reflexive authority with transformative and structuring power to tackle transformation issues. My notion of dynamic multilevel governance relies on thoughts in new institutionalism, network theory, deliberative democracy theory, discourse ethics, and different concepts of governance. I combine theory, normative justification, and institutional feasibility.     

Beyond Happy Families: A Critical Reevaluation of the Control-Resistance-Identity Triangle

In this article, the author explores the natureof contemporary organizational controls, the extent towhich they can be said to colonize employeesubjectivity, and the types of resistance which theygenerate. Labor process, psychoanalytic, critical theory,and Foucauldian perspectives are juxtaposed and a numberof similarities and divergences are noted. It is arguedthat many of these perspectives prematurely lament the end of employee recalcitrance andexaggerate the magnitude and totality of organizationalcontrols, generating over-managed and overcontrolledimages of individuals, organizations, and societies. It is proposed that a rapprochement ofpsychoanalytic and labor theory approaches can lead toan appreciation of unmanaged and unmanageable terrainsin organizations, in which human agency may berediscovered, neither as a class-conscious proletariat nor asa transcendental subject, but as a struggling, feeling,thinking, suffering subject, one capable of obeying anddisobeying, controlling and being controlled, losing control and escaping control, definingand redefining control for itself and forothers.     

Book Reviews

Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology , Philip Manning
The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies , Anthony Giddens
Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process: Critique and Counter-Critique , Eric Dunning and Chris Rojek (eds)
The Symbol Theory , Norbert Elias
The Reflexive Thesis: Wrighting Sociology of Scientific Knowledge , Malcolm Ashmore
Feminine Sentences: Essays on Women and Culture , Janet Wolff
The Woman in Question – m/f , Parveen Adams and Elizabeth Cowie (eds)
Studying Collective Action , Mario Diani and Ron Eyerman, (eds)
Social Movements: A Cognitive Approach , Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison
Social Classes and Social Relations in Britain, 1850–1914 , A.J. Reid
Property, Bureaucracy and Culture: Middle-Class Formation in Contemporary Britain , M. Savage, J. Barlow, P. Dickens and T. Fielding
Critical Management Studies , M. Alvesson and H. Willmott, (eds)
White-Collar Crime: Criminal Justice and Criminology , Hazel Croall
Discrimination and Public Policy in Northern Ireland , R.J. Cormack and Osbome, R.D.
The Gypsies , Angus Fraser     

Book Reviews

Bottoms, Bette L., Bull Kovera, Margaret and Mcauliff, Bradley D. Children, Social Science and the Law
Davie, Grace Europe: The Exceptional Case; Parameters of Faith in the Modern World
Flyvbjerg, Bent, Bruzelius, Nils and Rothengatter, Werner Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition
Boddy, David Managing Projects. Building and Leading the Team
Goldthorpe, John On Sociology - Numbers, Narratives and the Integration of Research and Theory
Goodchild, Philip Capitalism and Religion: The Price of Piety
Hills, John, Le Grand, Julian and Piachaud, David (eds) Understanding Social Exclusion
Joseph, Jonathan Hegemony: A Realist Analysis
Jonsson, J. O. and Mills, Colin (eds) Cradle to Grave: Life-Course Change in Modern Sweden
Allan, Graham and Jones, Gill (eds) Social Relations and the life Course
Misa, Thomas J., Brey, Philip and Feenberg, Andrew (eds) Modernity and Technology
Robertson, Robbie The Three Waves of Globalization: A History of a Developing Global Consciousness
Smith, Denis Norbert Elias and Modern Social Theory     

Cultural Studies in Black and White

Political intervention is deeply etched in the history and theory of Cultural Studies. The vehicle of intervention is typically understood as textual and the measure of success as ‘has it changed the world?’ This graphic and textual essay argues for and enacts thinking of and practising intervention more innovatively and more modestly: as equally extra-textual, and as a site for experimentation in the folds among theory, practice, and the quotidian. The author’s original black and white charcoal and pastel images are paired with text to explore the potential for an articulation of the visual and the textual to engage, convey, actualize, and produce concepts and insights of Cultural Studies. In evocative images and accessible language it enacts a new mode of engaging the theory and practice of Cultural Studies, specifically engaging concepts of articulation and assemblage, movement and things, questions of identity, the importance of affect, the power of transformation, youth cultures and resistance, The Black Lives Matter movement and matters of race, the struggles of women, the challenge of overcoming culturally engendered hatred of difference, and the difficulties of negotiating change in the precarious circumstances of contemporary culture.     

Book Reviews

Book Review in this article: The Constitution of Society, Anthony Giddens Michel Foucalt, Barry Smart. Making Sense of Marx, Jon Elster Michel Foucault, Mark Cousins and Athar Hussain Making Sense of Marx, Jon Elster Working the Work Ethic, Michael Rose Working Women in Recession: Employment, Redundancy and Unemployment, Roderick Martin and Judith Wallace Shop Floor Bargaining and the State, Steven Tolliday and Jonathan Zeithin (eds) Technologies of Freedom, Ithiel de Sola Pool Capitalism, Class Confliet and the New Middle Class, Bob Carter, Routledge & Kegan Paul Architects and Firms: A Sociological Perspective on Architectural Practice, Judith R. Blau The Politics of Socialism. An Essay in Political Theory, John Dunn A Preface to Economic Democracy, Robert A. Dahl The Semiotics of Culture and Language, Robin P. Faweett, M. A. K. Halliday, Sydney Lamb and Adam Makkai Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola Rachel Bowlby Postmodern Culture, Hal Foster (ed.) Habermas and Modernity, Richard J. Bernstein (ed.) Popular Fiction and Social Change, Christopher Pawling (ed.) How Conversation works, Ronald Wardhaugh Language, The Sexes and Society, Philip M. Smith. Private Violence and Public Policy: The Needs of Battered Women and the Response of the Public Services, Jan Pahl Women on Trial, Susan S.M. Edwards Education in Multicultural Societis, Trevor Corner (ed.) Home and School in Multicultural Britain, Sally Tomlinson Comparative Youth Culture, Michael Brake, Routledge & Kegan Paul The Loneliness of the Dying, Norbert Elias, trans. Edmund Jephcott, Basil Blackwell     

Book Reviews

Cameron, Deborah Verbal hygiene
Eco, Umberto The search for the perfect language
Caldas-Coulthard, Carmen Rosa and Coulthard, Malcom (eds) Texts and practices: Readings in critical discourse analysis
Peräkylä, Anssi, Aids counselling: Institutional interaction and clinical practice
Williams, Colin H. Called unto liberty: On language and nationalism
Besnier, Niko Literacy, emotion and authority: Reading and writing on a Polynesian atoll
Firth, Alan (ed.) The discourse of negotiation: Studies of language in the workplace
Holmes, Janet Women, men and politeness
Aitchison, John and Carter, Harold A Geography of the Welsh language 1961–1991 .
Williams, Rhian Huws, Williams, Hywel and Davies, Elaine (eds) Gwaith Cymdeithasol a'r Iaith Gymraeg/Social work and the Welsh language     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Bauman, Zygmunt In Search of Politics
Beynon, Huwand Glavanis, Pandeli Patterns of Social Inequality
Eisenstadt, S. N. Paradoxes of Democracy: Fragility, Continuity and Change
Gilbert, Nigel and Troitzsch, Klaus G. Simulation for the Social Scientist
Goldscheider, Frances and Goldscheider, Calvin The Changing Transition to Adulthood: Leaving and Returning Home
Heath, Anthony F., Breen, Richard and Whelan, Christopher T. (eds) Ireland North and South: Perspectives from Social Science
Nelson, Robert L. and Bridges, William P. Legalizing Gender Inequality: Courts, Markets, and Unequal Pay for Women in America
O'Connor, Julia. S., Orloff, Ann Shola and Shaver, Sheila States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States     

Key factors and characteristics of successful resource parents who care for older youth: A systematic review of research

There is growing recognition that competent, committed resource parents are a critical component to the effective delivery of foster and adoptive services for teens placed in out-of-home-care. This study implemented a systematic review process to identify the personal characteristics, skills and abilities of successful resource families that maximize foster and adoptive parent retention and maximize placement permanency of teens placed in out of home care. Starting with an extensive search of the literature across the last two decades and outreach to locate studies, the authors systematically analyzed research that used permanency and placement stability as the primary dependent variables and personal characteristics/attributes, knowledge, skills and abilities as independent variables. Of the 838 total documents identified, 48 were original research studies that focused on one or more of these variables. Although rigorous and systematic, this research was hampered by differing definitions, samples, measures, and the type of analysis utilized among these studies. Personal characteristics that promoted permanency and placement stability included having a tolerance for rejection, flexible expectations, having a sense of humor, having a belief in a higher power, belief in self-efficacy, having higher education, having sufficient economic resources, having healthy family and marital functioning, having access to support systems, and being motivated to foster/adopt. Knowledge, skills, and abilities resources families acquired that promoted permanency and placement stability included the ability to communicate effectively, maintain attentiveness to the parent/child relationship (i.e. using routines and structure while also offering children a variety of experiences), understand the effects of trauma and teach socio-emotional health, provide culturally competent care, recognize, express and process grief, take care of oneself, valuing and participating in life -long learning, training and education, and valuing a connection to the child's birth family.     

Anthropological Perspectives on the Trafficking of Women for Sexual Exploitation

Abstract The sexual exchange of girls and women embodies deep cultural practices and is historically embedded in many family and kinship systems. Contemporary trafficking operations transform traditional bride wealth and marriage exchanges (prestations) by treating women's sexuality and bodies as commodities to be bought and sold (and exchanged again) in various Western capitals and Internet spaces. Such operations are also global with respect to scale, range, speed, diversity, and flexibility. Propelling many trafficking exchanges are political economic processes, which increase the trafficking of women in times of stress, such as famine, unemployment, economic transition, and so forth. However, the disparity between the global market operations, which organize trafficking, and the late nineteenth century social/public welfare system of counter‐trafficking suggests why the latter do not effectively address women's risks and may even expose them to increased levels of violence and stress. Drawing on historical accounts, anthropological theory, and ethnographic work in Viet Nam and Bosnia and Herzegovina, this essay examines how specific cultural practices embedded in family and kinship relations encourage and rationalize sexual trafficking of girls and young women in times of stress and dislocation. The essay also analyses how technologies of power inform both trafficking and counter‐trafficking operations in terms of controlling women's bodies, sexuality, health, labour, and migration. By analysing sexual trafficking as a cultural phenomenon in its own right, such an analysis seeks to inform and address the specific situations of girls and young women, who suffer greatly from the current migration regimes.     

Reproductive justice for the invisible infertile: A critical examination of reproductive surveillance and stratification

The ability to decide if, when, and how often to reproduce is a human right and a biomedical and sociopolitical goal. Infertility impinges upon this right by restricting the ability of individuals and couples to meet their reproductive desires. While biomedical interventions to address infertility have proliferated recently, their distribution has been inequitable; inequalities in rates of infertility, infertility‐specific distress, and access to reproductive healthcare to address infertility abound. Using a reproductive justice framework, and focusing on the United States, we examine the collection and utilization of the Integrated Fertility Survey Series, the inception and provisions of Title X, and the structural limitations of the private healthcare system. This analysis highlights systematic and linked exclusions of marginalized groups from reproductive health surveillance and the public and private provision of reproductive healthcare, including older, non‐white, working class, LGBTQ, geographically remote, less educated, HIV‐positive, institutionalized, and disabled individuals. Individuals who are excluded from infertility tracking, services, and treatment—the invisible infertile—are limited in their ability to realize their human right to reproductive health. Utilizing existing resources in public and private clinical spaces may be a useful starting point for addressing these disparities, but a broader commitment to equitable and inclusive surveillance and healthcare provision is also needed.     

Women and War: Militarism, Bodies, and the Practice of Gender

Women around the world, in various geographic spaces, social and cultural contexts, as partners, wives, sisters, daughters, mothers, mourners, and victims experience war. Women's experience of war and their participation in it, either as actors or resistors, victims or perpetrators ( Moser and Clark 2001 ), cheerleaders or critics, are always influenced by the construction of gender operating in and around their lives. While constructions of masculinity and femininity are always circulating in and around militarism and war, women's bodies are sometimes primary considerations for military and state leaders; this creates a visibility/invisibility/hyper-visibility problem for women in wartime. In this essay, women's participation in war as soldiers, refugees, prisoners, jailers, activists, and suicide bombers and the accompanying shift in the practice of femininity and masculinity is explored.     

Gambling Type,Substance Abuse,Health and Psychosocial Correlates of Male and Female Problem Gamblers in a Nationally Representative French Sample

Many studies carried out on treatment-seeking problem gamblers (PG) have reported high levels of comorbid substance use disorders, and mental and physical health problems. Nevertheless, general population studies are still sparse, most of them have been carried out in the United States or Canada, and gender differences have not always been considered. Thus, the aim of this study was to describe the type of games, and psychological and physical correlates in male and female PG in a nationally representative French sample. The total sample studied involved 25,647 subjects aged 15–85 years, including 333 PG and 25,314 non-problem gamblers (NPG). Data were extracted from a large survey of a representative sample of the French general population. They were evaluated for sociodemographic variables, gambling behavior, type of gambling activity, substance use, psychological distress, body mass index, chronic disease, and lack of sleep. Overall, there were significant differences between PG and NPG in gender, age, education, employment and marital status, substance use disorders (alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, cocaine and heroin), psychological distress, obesity, lack of sleep and type of gambling activity. Although male and female PG had different profiles, the gambling type, especially strategic games, appeared as an important variable in the relationship between gender and problem gambling. This research underlines the importance of considering gender differences and gambling type in the study of gambling disorders. Identifying specific factors in the relationship between gender, gambling type and gambling problems may help improve clinical interventions and health promotion strategies.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Susan Ehrlich, Representing Rape: Language and Sexual Consent
Deborah Cameron, Working with Spoken Discourse
Stefan Titscher, Michael Meyer, Ruth Wodak and Eva Vetter, Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis
Linda A. Wood and Rolf O. Kroger, Doing Discourse Analysis: Methods for Studying Action in Talk and Text
Srikant Sarangi and Celia Roberts (eds.), Talk, Work and Institutional Order: Discourse in Medical, Mediation and Management Settings
Ulrich Ammon (ed.), The Dominance of English as a Language of Science: Effects on Other Languages and Language Communities
Alexandra Jaffe, Ideologies in Action: Language Politics on Corsica
Niloofar Haeri, The Sociolinguistic Market of Cairo: Gender, Class and Education
Anita Y. K. Poon, Medium of Instruction in Hong Kong: Policy and Practice
Tariq Rahman, Language, Education and Culture
Dariusz Galasinski, The Language of Deception: A Discourse Analytical Study
Clifford Hill and Eric Larsen, Children and Reading Tests
Fern L. Johnson, Speaking Culturally: Language Diversity in the United States
Lucy Burke, Tony Crowley and Alan Girvin (eds.), The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader