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Book reviewed in this article: Power, Modernity and Sociology: Selected Sociological Writings. Raymond Aron. Dominique Schnapper (ed.) Michel Foucault: Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and other Writings 1977–84, Lawrence D. Kritzman (ed.) Norbert Elias: Civilization and the Human Self-Image, Stephen Mennell Modernity and the Holocaust, Zygmunt Bauman Fin-de-Siecle Socialism, Martin Jay The Analysis of Ideology, Raymond Boudon Political Theory and the Modern State, David Held The State, John A. Hall and G. John Ikenberry Status, Bryan S. Turner Citizenship, J.M. Barbalet On Work: Historical, Comparative and Theoretical Approaches R.E. Pahl (ed.) The Transformation of Work? Skill, Flexibility and the Labour, Process S. Wood (ed.) New Technology and the Labour Process, David Knights and Hugh Willmott (eds) Employment in Britain D. GaHie (ed.) Victims of Crime: A New Deal?, M. Maguire and J. Pointing Growing Up Good: Policing the Behaviour of Girls in Europe M. Cain (ed.) The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe Rudolf M. Dekker and Lotte C. van de Pol AIDS: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Activism, Douglas Crimp (ed.) Looka Yonder The Imaginary America of Populist Culture Duncan Webster     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Bainbridge, William Sims The Endtime Family: Children of God
Hobson, Barbara (ed.) Making Men Into Fathers: Men, Masculinities and the Social Politics of Fatherhood
Rose, David (ed.) Researching Social and Economic Change: The Uses of Household Panel Studies     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Ellen M. Gee and Meredith M. Kimball, Women and Aging (Butterworths Perspectives on Individual and Population Aging Series)
Statistics Canada Population Estimation Methods
Harry Brod (ed.) The Making of Masculinities
Shivalingappa S. Halli, How Minority Status Affects Fertility: Asian Groups in Canada.
William G. Bailey Human Longevity from Antiquity to the Modern Lab: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography
Victor W. Marshall (ed.) Aging in Canada: Social Perspectives (Second Edition)
Louis Dumont Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective.
Anselm L. Strauss Qualitative Analysis for Social Scientists
Paul Stoller and Cheryl Olkes In Sorcery's Shadow: A Memoir of Apprenticeship among the Songhay of Niger
R. Cole Harris (ed.) and Geoffrey J. Matthews (cartographer/designer) Historical Atlas of Canada, Vol. 1, From the Beginning to 1800
Barrie Reynolds and Margaret A. Stott (eds.) Material Anthropology: Contemporary Approaches to Material Culture
D. Gauvreau, J. Gregory, M. Kempeneers et V. Piché (dir.) Démographie et sous-développement dans le Tiers-Monde
Donald Blake Two Political Worlds: Parties and Voting in British Columbia
Lynn Mcdonald The Party That Changed Canada: The New Democratic Party, Then and Now.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Time and Social Theory Barbara Adam
Psychoanalysis and Social Theory: The Limits of Sociology Ian Craib
Civilization: Contents, Discontents, Malcontents and Other Essays in Social Theory Stanford M. Lyman
Ideology and Modern Culture John B. Thompson
The Methodology of Herbert Blumer: Critical Interpretation and Repair Kenneth Baugh Jr
The Fashioned Self Joanne Finkelstein
The Political and Social Theory of Max Weber Wolfgang J. Mommsen
Reading Weber Keith Tribe (ed.), Routledge
The Sexuality of Organisation Jeff Hearn, Deborah L. Sheppard
The Social Mobility of Women: Beyond Male Mobility Models Geoff Payne and Pamela Abbott, (eds)
Battered Women as Survivors Lee Ann Hoff
Family, Economy and Community C.C. Harris, (ed.)
Enterprise Culture Russell Keat and Nicholas Abercrombie, (eds)
Making Their Way: Education, Training and the Labour Market in Canada and Britain David Ashton and Graham Lowe, (eds).
Images of Youth: Age, Class, and the Male Youth Problem 1880–1920 Harry Hendrick
Football on Trial: Spectator Violence and Development in the Football World Patrick Murphy, John Williams and Eric Dunning
The Cambridge Social History of Britain 1750–1950, Volume 1, Regions and Communities F.M.L. Thompson, (ed.)
The Cambridge Social History of Britain 1750–1950, Volume 3, Social Agencies and Institutions F.M.L. Thompson, (ed.)
The Dark Side of Europe: The Extreme Right Today Geoffrey Harris
Resistance and Control in Pakistan A.D. Ahmed
The Soviet Union: A Biographical Dictionary Archie Brown, (ed.)     

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Book reviewed in this article:
A Critical Dictionary of Sociology R. Boudon and F Bourricaud (translated by Peter Hamilton)
A Treatise on Social Theory. Volume II: Substantive Social Theory W.G. Runciman
Mind in Action Jeff Coulter
Max Weber and Thomas Mann: Calling and the Shaping of the Self Harvey Goldman
Éamile Durkheim and the Reformation of Sociology Stjepan G. Mestrović
Politics and Class Analysis , B. Hindess
Choice, Rationality and Social Theory , B. Hindess
Social Anthropology and the Politics of Language , Ralph Grillo (ed.)
The Pluralist Theory of the State: Selected Writings of G. D.H. Cole . J.N. Eiggis and HJ. Laski Paul O. Hirst (ed.)
Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism , Roy Medvedev
Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory Nancy J. Chodorow
The Woman in the Body. A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction , Emily Martin
Rediscovering Masculinity: Reason. Language and Sexuality , Victor J. Seidler
Growing Old in the Twentieth Century , Margot Jefferys (ed.)
Nursing the Dying , David Field
Doctoring the Media: the Reporting of Health and Medicine , Anne Karpf
Social Order/Mental Disorder: Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective , Andrew Scull
Sport in Britain: A Social History Tony Mason (ed.)
Family Art , Philip Pacey
'Highbrow/Lowbrow': The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America , Lawrence W Levine.     

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Society and Nature: Towards a Green Social Theory , Peter Dickens
Antiquity and Capitalism: Max Weber and the Sociological Foundations of Roman Civilization , John R. Love
Anthony Giddens , Ian Craib
Political Theory Today , David Held, (ed.)
The Man-Made City: The Land Use Confidence Game in Chicago , Gerald D. Suttles
Councillors in Crisis: The Public and Private Worlds of Local Councillors , Jacqueline Barron, Gerald Crawley and Tony Wood
The Constant Flux: A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Societie , Robert Erikson and John H. Goldthorpe
The Radiant Past: Ideology and Reality in Hungary's Road to Capitalism , Michael Burawoy and János Lukács
Talk and Social Structure: Studies in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis , Deirdre Boden and Don H. Zimmerman, (eds)
Talking of the Royal Family , Michael Billig
Children in Poverty: Child Development and Public Policy . Althea C. Huston, (ed.)
Good Days, Bad Days: The Self in Chronic Illness and Time , Kathy Charmaz
One in Three: Women with Cancer Confront an Epidemic , Judith Brady, (ed.)
Cancer in Two Voices , Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Baltes, Paul B. and Mayer, Karl Ulrich (eds) The Berlin Aging Study from 70 to 100
Bus eld, Joan Health and Health Care in Modern Britain
Bussemaker, Jet (ed.) Citizenship and Welfare State Reform in Europe
Chauvel, Louis Le destin des générations. Structure sociale et cohortes en France au Xxe siècle
Daly, Mary The Gender Division of Welfare. The Impact of the British and German Welfare States
Davis, Howard and Scase, Richard (eds) Managing Creativity: The Dynamics of Work and Organization
Evans, Geoffrey (ed.) The Decline of Class Politics: Class Voting In Comparative Perspective
Fenton, Steve Ethnicity: Racism, Class and Culture
Friedkin, Noah E. A Structural Theory of Social Influence
Jenkins, Timothy Religion in English Every-day Life: An Ethnographic Approach
Lyon, David Jesus in Disneyland: Religion In Postmodern Times
McRae, Susan (ed.) Changing Britain: Families and Households in the 1990s
Philo, Greg and Miller, David (eds) Market Killing: What the Free Market Does And What Social Scientists Can Do About It     

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Book reviewed in this articles: Concept Formation in Social Science William Outhwaite Theoretical Logic in Sociology. Volume Two. The Antinomies of Classical Thought: Marx and Durkheim J.C. Alexander The Individual and the Social Self: Unpublished Work of George Herbert Mead David L. Miller (ed.) The Macmillan Student Encyclopedia of Sociology Michael Mann (ed.) States and Societies David Held et al. (eds) Managing the Mind: A Study of Medical Psychology in Early Nineteenth Century Britain Michael Donnelly Contemporary Britain Angus Stewart (ed.) Belonging: Identity and Social Organisation in British Rural Cultures Anthony P. Cohen (ed.) Consensus and Beyond: The Development of Labour Party Strategy since the Second World War Alan Warde Women's Imprisonment: A Study in Social Control Pat Carlen Women's Religious Experience Pat Holden (ed.) The Social World of the Comprehensive School Glenn Turner Teaching about Race Relations: Problems and Effects L. Stenhouse et al. The Multicultural Curriculum James Lynch Race, Ethnicity and Power Donald G. Baker Approaches of Welfare Philip Bean and Stewart MacPherson, (eds) Living the Fishing Paul Thompson with Tony Wailey and Trevor Lummis Death and Renewal: Sociological Studies in Roman History, Volume 2 Keith Hopkins The Survey Method: The Contribution of Surveys to Sociological Explanation Catherine Marsh     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Authors of Their Own Lives: Intellectual Autobiographies by Twenty American Sociologists Bennett M. Berger (ed.)
Post-Marxist Alternatives: the Construction of Social Orders Nicos P. Mouzelis
Surveillance, Power and Modernity Christopher Dandeker
Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity Bryan S. Turner (ed.)
Sexual Subversions: Three French Feminists Elizabeth Grosz
Sociobiology and the Social Sciences Robert W. Bell and Nancy J., Bell (eds)
The Dilemma of Qualitative Method: Herbert Blumer and the Chicago Tradition Martyn Hammersley
Collective Remembering David Middleton and Derek Edwards (eds)
Models and Mirrors: Towards an Anthropology of Public Events D. Handelman
Black Music in Britain: Essays on the Afro-Asian Contribution to Popular Music P. Oliver (ed.)
The Unprincipled Society: New Demands and Old Politics David Marquand
New Forms of Ownership: Management and Employment G. Jenkins and M. Poole (eds)
Patterns of Labour: Work and Social Change in the Pottery Industry Richard Whipp
Social Work in an Enterprise Society Robert Pinker
The Politics and Morality of Deviance: Moral Panics , Drug Abuse
Readings in Medical Sociology S. Cunningham-Burley and N.P. McKeganey (eds)
New Directions in the Sociology of Health Pamela Abbott and Geoff Payne (eds)     

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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     

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Ben Carniol Case Critical: Challenging Social Services in Canada.
Margrit Eichler (ed.) Change of Plans: Towards a Non-Sexist Sustainable City.
Richard Himelfarb Catastrophic Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988.
Rhoda E. Howard Human Rights and the Search for Community.
Ellen R. Judd Gender and Power in Rural North China. Stanford
Kirsten Johnson Undressing the Canadian State: The Politics of Pornography from Hicklin to Butler.
Dany Lacombe Blue Politics: Pornography and the Law in the Age of Feminism.
Martha Mcmahon Engendering Motherhood: Identity and Self-Transformation in Women's Lives.
Raymond Murphy Rationality and Nature: A Sociological Inquiry into a Challenging Relationship. Boulder
Sonia Nieto Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education.
Philip D. Oxhorn Organizing Civil Society: The Popular Sectors and the Struggle for Democracy in Chile.
Lisa Philips Valentine Making It Their Own: Severn Ojibwe Communicative Practices.
Jeffrey Ian Ross (ed.) Violence in Canada: Sociopolitical Perspectives.
Stephen K. Sanderson Social Transformations: A General Theory of Historical Development.
Peter H. Stephenson Susan J. Elliott Leslie T. Foster Jill Harris (eds.) A Persistent Spirit: Towards Understanding Health Care in British Columbia.
James Tully Strange Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in an Age of Diversity.
James P. Waldram D. Ann Herring T. Kue Young Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives.
David Weeks Jamie James Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness.
Stephen K. White (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Habermas.
Roy C. Wood The Sociology of the Meal.     

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     

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Book reviewed in this article: Organisation and Bureaucracy: An Analysis of Modern Theories by Nicos Mouzelis. Beyond Marx and Tito: Theory and Practice in Yugoslav Socialism by Sharon Zukin. Rehabilitation and Deviance by Philip Bean. Durkheim on Religion: A Selection of Readings with Bibliographies and Introductory Remarks by W. S. F. Pickering (ed). Agrarian Co-operatives in Peru: A Sodo-Econormc Survey by Peter Buchkr. Varieties of Residential Experience fay J. Tizard, I. Sinclair and R. V. G. Clarke (eds.) Authority and Organization in the Secondary School by Elizabeth Richardson. Education and Social Control: A Stitdy in Progressive Primary Education by R. Sharp and A. Green. Ideology and Social Welfare by Vic George and Paul Wilding. Paradigms and Fairy Tales: An Introduction to the Science of Meanings, Vols. I and 11 by Julience Ford. Methods of Social Study by Sidney and Beatrice Webb. Reprinted with an introduction by T. H. Marshall Who Rules The Universities? An Essay in Class Amdysis by David N. Smith. Slamming the Door by Robert Moore and Tina Wallace. The Female Offender by Annette M. Brodsky (ed.) The Sociology of the Third World: Disparity and Involvement by J. E. Goldthorpe. The Foreman: Aspects of Task and Structure by David Dunkerley. Madness and Morals: Ideas on Insanity in the Nineteenth Century by Vieda Skultans. Dilemmas of Discourse: Controversies about the Sociological Inter-pretation of Language by Anthony Wootton. Whatever happened to equality by Iohn Vaizey (ed.) The Drama of Social Reality by Stanford M. Lytnan and Marvin B. Scott. The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism by Daniel Bell. Social Psychology for Sociologists by David Field (ed.) The Highest Education: A Study of Graduate Education in Britain by Ernest Rudd. Religious Movements in Contemporary America by Irving I. Zaietsky and Mark P. Leone (eds.) Socialisation to Old Age by Irving Rosow.     

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Book reviewed in this article: DIVORCE MEDIATION: PERSPECTIVES ON THE FIELD : edited by Craig A. Everett PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH PSYCHOTHERAPISTS : Florence W. Kaslow (ed.)     

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Book reviewed in this article: Vulnerable inside: children in secure and penal settings by Barry Goldson (ed.)     

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Book reviewed in this article: Protecting children in time: child abuse, child protection and the consequences of modernity by Harry Ferguson (ed.)     

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Lisa Adkins Gendered Work: Sexuality, Family and the Labour Market. Brian S. Baigrie (ed.) Picturing Knowledge: Historical and Philosophical Problems Concerning the Use of Art in Science. Maureen Baker Canadian Family Policies: Cross-National Comparisons. J.I. (Hans) Barker (ed.) Sustainability and International Rural Development. Kurt Bowen Evangelism and Apostasy: The Evolution and Impact of Evangelicals in Modern Mexico. Cecilia Danysk Hired Hands: Labour and the Development of Prairie Agriculture, 1880–1930. Satadal Dasgupta (ed.) The Community in Canada: Rural and Urban. Theresa DeLeane O'nell Disciplined Hearts: History, Identity and Depression in an American Indian Community. Gerald A.J. De Montigny Social Working: An Ethnography of Front-Line Practice. G. William Domhoff State Autonomy or Class Dominance? Case Studies on Policy Making in America. René R. Gadacz Rethinking DisAbility: New Structures, New Relationships. Hubert Gérard Victor Piche (eds.) La sociologie des populations. William Jankowiak (ed.) Romantic Passion: A Universal Experience? Peter S. Li The Making of Post-War Canada. Ken Morrison Marx, Durkheim, Weber: Formations of Modern Social Thought. Ken Morrison Marx, Durkheim, Weber: Formations of Modern Social Thought. Louise Quesnel (ed.) Social Sciences and the Environment. Clayton Roberts The Logic of Historical Explanation. Deborah Root Cannibal Culture: Art, Appropriation, and the Commodification of Difference. Frank M. Stark Communicative Interaction, Power and the State: A Method. Michael W. Traugott Paul J. Lavrakas The Voter's Guide to Election Polls. Eric Venbrux A Death in the Tiwi Islands: Conflict, Ritual and Social Life in an Australian Aboriginal Community. Tony Walter The Revival of Death. Frank Webster Theories of the Information Society. Jeffrey Weeks Invented Moralities: Sexual Values in an Age of Uncertainty. Richard G. Wilkinson Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality. Yunxiang Yan The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village.     

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Books reviewed in this article: Beckford, James A. and Gilliat, Sophie Religion in Prison: Equal Rites in a Multi-faith Society Campbell, Colin The Myth of Social Action Heelas, Paul (ed.) Religion, Modernity and Postmodernity Sica, Alan (ed.) What is Social Theory? The Philosophical Debates Swartz, David Culture and Power:The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu van den Berg, Axel, Furåker, Bengt and Johansson, Leif Labour Market Regimes and Patterns of Flexibility. A Sweden–Canada Comparison     

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Books reviewed:
Jonathan Crush, (ed.) Beyond Control: Immigration and Human Rights in a Democratic South Africa
Paul O'Leary, Immigration and Integration: The Irish in Wales, 1798-1922
Binod Khadria, The Migration of Knowledge Workers. Second-Generation Effects of India's Brain Drain     

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Book reviewed in this article: Adoption and Fostering. Special Issue: Promoting Children's Health. Volume 26, No 4, Winter 2002 by M. Mather (ed.).