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SANDRA B. BURMAN and BARBARA HARRELL-BOND, (eds.), The Imposition of Law.
J. PAUL GRAYSON (ed.) Class, State, Ideology and Change: Marxist Perspectives on Canada.
DAVID COBURN, CARL D'ARCY, PETER NEW and GEORGE TORRENCE (eds.), Health and Canadian Society: Sociological Perspectives.
S.E.D. SHORTT, (ed.), Medicine in Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives.
CHARLES C. LEMERT (ed), French Sociology: Rupture and Renewal Since 1968.
DEREK L. PHILLIPS, Equality, Justice and Rectification: An Exploration in Normative Sociology.
WILLIAM H. DURHAM, Scarcity and Survival in Central America: Ecological Origins of the Soccer War.
RANDLE W. NELSEN and DAVID A. NOCK (eds.), Reading, Writing, and Riches: Education and the Socio-Economic Order in North America.
JEFFREY G. REITZ, The Survival of Ethnic Groups.
HAROLD E. PEPINSKY, Crime Control Strategies: An Introduction to the Study of Crime.
MICHIEL HORN, The League for Social Reconstruction: Intellectual Origins of the Democratic Left in Canada, 1930–1942.
ALVIN FINKEL, Business and Social Reform in the Thirties.
SUZANNE BERGER and MICHAEL J. PIORE, Dualism and Discontinuity in Industrial Societies.
PAUL I. AHMED and GEORGE V. COELHO (eds,), Toward a New Definition of Health, Psychosocial Dimension.     

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Lisa Gilad, Ginger and Salt: Yemeni Jewish Women in an Israeli Town. Boulder D.W. Attwood and B.S. Baviskar (eds.), Who Shares? Co-operatives and Rural Development Francis Robinson (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and The Maldives Richard C. Davis (ed.), Rupert's Land: A Cultural Tapestry Tom Bottomore and Robert J. Brym (eds.), The Capitalist Class: An International Study Raymond Murphy, Social Closure: A theory of Monopolization and Exclusion Richard Flacks, Making History. Kevin D. Carriere and Richard V. Ericson, Crime Stoppers: A Study in the Organization of Community Policing. Dany Lacombe, Ideology and Public Policy: The Case Against Pornography Robert J. Brym with Bonnie J. Fox, From Culture to Power: The Sociology of English Canada. Barry Wellman and S.D. Berkowitz (eds.), Social Structures: a network approach John Van Willigen, Barbara Rylko-Bauer, and Ann Mcelroy (eds.), Making Our Research Useful Grahame Clark, Prehistory at Cambridge and beyond Theresa R. Richardson, The Century of the Child: The Mental Hygiene Movement and Social Policy in the United States and Canada Anne Edwards, Regulation and Repression: The Study of Social Control Michael V. Angrosino, Documents of Interaction: Biography, Autobiography, and Life History in Social Science Perspective Michael Hechter, Principles of Group Solidarity Partrick Kierans, Glenn Drover and David Williams, Welfare and Worker Participation Mary Mccannery Gergen (ed.), Feminist Thought and the Structure of Knowledge Richard V. Ericson, Patricia M. Baranek and Janet B.L. Chan, Visualizing Deviance: A Study of New Organizations Sheila Allen and Carol Wolkowitz, Homeworking: Myths and Realities Calvin W. Redekop and Samuel J. Steiner (eds.), Mennonite Identity: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Robert A. Stebbins, Canadian Football: The View From The Helmet Anne Innis Dagg and Patricia J. Thompson, MisEducation: Women & Canadian Universities Cyril H. Levitt and William Shaffir, The Riots at Christie Pits     

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LAUREEN SNIDER, Bad Business: Corporate Crime in Canada .
GREGG M. OLSEN, The Struggle for Democracy in Sweden .
WILLIAM R. JANKOWIAK, Sex, Death, and Hierarchy in a Chinese City .
FRAN MARKOWITZ, A Community in Spite of Itself. Soviet Jewish Emigres in New York .
ELIZABETH EDWARDS (ed.), Anthropology and Photography, 1860–1920 .
NOEL DYCK and JAMES B. WALDRAM (eds.), Anthropology, Public Policy and Native Peoples in Canada .
ANNY BAKALIAN, Armenian-Americans: From being to feeling Armenian .
GORDON BROTHERSON, Book of the Fourth World. Reading the Native Americas Through Their Literature .
DAVID A. NOCK, Star Wars in Canadian Sociology: Exploring the Social Construction of Knowledge .
PRUE BAINS and ELI TERAM, Normal Bad Boys: Public Policies, Institutions, and The Politics of Client Recruitment .
DAVID MACGREGOR Hegel, Marx and the English State .
DENYS DELÂGE, Bitter Feast: Amerindians and Europeans in Northeastern North America, 1600–64 . (orig. Le pays renversé ) (trans. Jane Brierly).
DIANE DRIEDGER and SUSAN GRAY (eds.), Imprinting Our Image: An International Anthology by Women with Disabilities .
ALENA HEITLINGER, Women's Equality, Demography and Public Policies .
GORDON BAILEY and NOGA GAYLE (eds.), Sociology: An Introduction from the Classics to Contemporary Feminists .
T.F. MCILWRAITH, The Bella Coola Indians, Volumes 1 and 2 .     

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Book reviewed in this article: JEAN STOCKARD and MARIAN M. JOHNSON, Sex Roles: Sex Inequality and Sex Role Development. MARGRIT EICHLER, The Double Standard: A Feminist Critique of Feminist Social Science. ALICE M. YOHALEM, The Careers of Professional Women: Commitment and Conflict. MARTIN KING WHYTE, The Status of Women in Preindustrial Societies JACQUES DONZELOT, The Policing of Families. Toronto: Random House of Canada SHANKAR A. YELAJA (ed.), Canadian Social Policy. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier GAYLENE BECKER, Growing Old in Silence. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London ELLIOTT A. KRAUSE. Power and Illness. The Political Sociology of Health and Medical THEDA SKOCPOL, States and Social Revolutions, NY: Cambridge VINCENT WRIGHT, The Government and Politics of France. London JOHN McCALLUM, Unequal Beginnings: Agriculture and Economic Development in Quebec and Ontario Until 1870. Toronto DOUG OWRAM, Promise of Eden: The Canadian Expansionist Movement and the Idea of the West, 1856–1900. Toronto J. RICK PONTING and ROGER GIBBINS, Out of Irrelevance: A Socio-Political Introduction to Indian Affairs in Canada. Toronto ROBERT A. SCOTT and ARNOLD R. SHORE, Why Sociology Does Not Apply: A Study of the Use of Sociology in Public Policy. WILLIAM SKIDMORE, Theoretical Thinking in Sociology (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge JAMES A. SCHELLENBERG, Masters of Social Psychology. New York GREGORY BAUM (ed) Sociology and Human Destiny: Essays on Sociology, Religion and Society. New York EDWARD A. MAZIARZ (ed.), Value and Values in Evolution. New York BRYAN R. WILSON, The Noble Savages: The Primitive Origins of Charisma and its Contemporary Survival. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London ARON HOROWTIZ, Striking Roots: Reflections on Five Decades of Jewish Life. Oakville PIERRE CLICHE, Espace Social et Mobilité Residentielle. Québec: Les Presses de ?     

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Book reviewed in this article:
MARSHALL SAHLINS, The Use and Abuse of Biology: An Anthropological Critique of Sociobiology.
GEORGE KURIAN (ed.), Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Mate-Selection and Marriage.
ANTONIA KLOSKOWSKA and GUIDO MARTINOTTI (eds), Education in a Changing Society.
Y. H. POORTINGA (ed.), Basic Problems In Cross-Cultural Psychology.
B. H. ERICKSON and T. A. NOSANCHUK, Understanding Data.
PAUL THOMPSON, The Voice of the Past: Oral History.
CARLO CALDAROLA, Christianity: The Japanese Way. Monographs and Theoretical Studies in Sociology and Anthropology in Honour of Nels Anderson, No. 15
K. ISHWARAN (ed.), Childhood and Adolescence in Canada.
JOSEPH SMUCKER, Industrialization in Canada.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Sociology and its Publics: The Forms and Fates of Disciplinary Organization T.C. Halliday and M. Janowitz (eds)
Social Evolutionism: A Critical History Stephen K. Sanderson
History and Social Theory Peter Burke
Time: An Essay Norbert Elias
Postmodernity Barry Smart
Social Movements: The Politics of Moral Protest Jan Pakulski
A Communitarian Defense of Liberalism: Emile Durkheim and contemporary Social Theory M.S. Cladis
Pierre Bourdieu Richard Jenkins
Social Research and Social Reform Colin Crouch and Anthony Heath, (eds)
Prospects for Democracy: North, South, East and West David Held, (ed.)
The Elite Connection: Problems and Potential of Western Democracy Eva Etzioni-Halevy
Lives in Trust: The Fortunes of Dynastic Families in Late Twentieth Century America George E. Marcus with Peter D. Hall
The Politics of State Expansion: War, State and Society in Twentieth-Century Britain James E. Cronin
The Development of Industrial Society in Ireland J.H. Goldthorpe and C.T. Whelan (eds)
Social Theory for Action: How Individuals and Organisations Learn to Change William Foote Whyte
Sociological Perspectives on Modern Accountancy Robin Roslender
Professions and Patriarchy Anne Witz
White, Male and Middle Class: Explorations in Feminism and History Catherine Hall
Shaping up to Womanhood: Gender and Girls' Physical Education Sheila Scraton
Symbolic Interaction and Cultural Studies Howard S. Becker and Michael M. McCall, (eds)
Fashion, Culture and Identity Fred Davis
Fields of Vision: Landscape Imagery and National Identity in England and the United States Stephen Daniels
The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form Through History Spiro Kostoff
Television and the Drama of Crime: Moral Tales and the Place of Crime in Public Life Richard Sparks
Writers in Prison Ioan Davies
Death, Dying and Bereavement Donna Dickenson and Malcolm Johnson, (eds)     

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Book reviewed in this article:
JOHN O'NEILL, Five Bodies: The Human Shape of Modern Society.
L. PANITCH and D. SWARTZ, From Consent to Coercion.
B. WHITE, Law, Capitalism and the Right to Work.
MILDA DANYS, Lithuanian Immigration to Canada After the Second World War.
FRED INGLIS, The Management of Ignorance: A political theory of the Curriculum.
AUGUSTINE BRANNIGAN and SHELDON GOLDENBERG (eds.), Social Responses to Technological Change.
GRAHAM s. LOWE and HERBERT c. NORTHCOTT, Under Pressure: A Study of Job Stress.
BRIAN HEAD (ed.), The Politics of Development in Australia.
J.D. HOUSE, The Challenge of Oil: Newfoundland's Quest for Controlled Development.
SEYMOUR MARTIN UPSET, Consensus and Conflict: Essays in Political Sociology.
WILLIAM H. VANDERBURG, The Growth of Minds and Cultures. A United Theory of the Structure of Human Experience.
GABRIEL WEIMANN and CONRAD WINN, Hate on Trial: The Zundel Affair, The Media, and Public Opinion in Canada.
JOHN DE VRIES, Towards a Sociology of Languages in Canada.
RICHARD Y. BOURHIS (ed.), Conflict and Language Planning in Quebec.
SUSAN A. MCDANIEL, Canada's Aging Population.
VICTOR w. MARSHALL (ed.), Later Life: The Social Psychology of Aging.
RANDALL COLLINS, Weberian sociological theory.
ROBERT A. SILVERMAN and JAMES J. TEEVAN, Jr. (eds.), Crime in Canadian Society
KAYLEEN M. HAZELHURST (ed.), justice Programs for Aboriginal and Other Indigenous Communities.
NOEL DYCK (ed.), Indigenous Peoples and the Nation State: 'Fourth World' Politics in Canada, Australia and Norway.
GEORGE p. CASTILE (ed.), The Indians of Puget Sound: the Notebooks of Myron Eells.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Helen c. Abell, Rural Families and Their Homes. Carle C. Zimmerman and Garry W. Moneo, The Prairie Community System Anthony H. Richmond, Research Report: Ethnic Residential Segregation in Metropolitan Toronto. Carle C. Zimmerman and Richard E. Duwors (eds.), Sociology of Underdevelopment. D. I. Davies and Kathleen Herman (eds.), Social Space: Canadian Perspectives. Thomas A. Hockin (ed.), Apex of Power: The Prime Minister and Political Leadership in Canada Harold Kalant and Oriana Josseau Kalant, Drugs, Society and Personal Choice. C. F. Grindstaff, C. L. Boydell, and P. C. Whitehead (eds.), Population Issues in Canada. W. E. Mann (ed.), Social Deviance in Canada. Jean Leonard Elliott (ed.), Minority Canadians, volume 1. Native Peoples. Jean Leonard elliott (ed.), Minority Canadians, volume 2. Immigrant Groups. John R. Hofley and Paul N. Geisel, Men on Relief. A Study of 440 Unemployed Men Receiving Social Assistance in Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Ottawa. Michael Bliss, ed., The Wretched of Canada. Letters to R. B. Bennett 1930–1935.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
JOHN BRAITHWAITE, Crime, Shame and Reintegration
WILLIAM B. SHAFFIR and ROBERT A. STEBBINS (eds.), Experiencing Fieldwork: An Inside View of Qualitative Research
BRYAN D. palmer, Descent into Discourse: The Reification of Language and the Writing of Social History
JACOB MULLER (ed.), Education for Work. Education as Work. Canada's Changing Community Colleges
LIORA SALTER and DAVID WOLFE (eds.), Managing Technology: Social Science Perspectives
JORGE NEF, JOKELEE VANDERKOP, and HENRY WISEMAN (eds.), Ethics and Technology: Ethical Choices in the Age of Pervasive Technology
HENRY WISEMAN, JOKELEE VANDERKOP and JORGE NEF (eds.), Critical Choices! Ethics, Science and Technology
JOAN SANGSTER, Dreams of Equality: Women on the Canadian Left, 1920–1950
AUBREY w. BONNETT and G. LLEWELLYN WATSON (eds.), Emerging Perspectives On The Black Diaspora
SANDRA KIRBY and KATE MCKENNA, Experience, Research, Social Change: Methods From the Margins
DAVID SCHEFFEL, In the Shadow of Antichrist: The Old Believers of Alberta
ROBERT S. ANDERSON, EDWIN LEVY and BARRIE MORRISON, Rice Science and Development Politics     

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ROGER O'TOOLE, Religion: Classical Sociological Approaches. HUBERT T. BLALOCK, JR., Conceptualization and Measurement in the Social Sciences. BRENDA BECK, The Three Twins. ANGELA MILES and GERALDINE FINN (eds.), Feminism in Canada. SANDFORD F. BURINS, The Language of the Skies: The Bilingual Air Traffic Control Conflict in Canada. CAROL LEE BACCHI, Liberation Deferred? The Ideas of the English-Canadian Suffragists, 1877–1918. SEYMOUR SUDMAN and NORMAN M. BRADBURN, Asking Questions: A Practical Guide to Questionnaire Design. PETER H. ROSSI and STEVEN L. NOCK (eds.), Measuring Social Judgments: A Factorial Survey Approach. DOUGLAS F. CAMPBELL, Beginnings: Essays on the History of Canadian Sociology. HART CANTELON and RICHARD GRUNEAU (eds.), Sport, Culture and the Modern State. G. LLEWELLYN WATSON, Social Theory and Critical Understanding. EARLE H. WAUGH, BAHA ABU-LABAN AND REGULA B. QURESHI (eds.), The Muslim Community in North America. IAN TAYLOR, Crime, Capitalism and Community: Three Essays in Socialist Criminology. RONALD WARDHAUGH, Language and Nationhood: The Canadian Experience.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
DEBORAH HARRISON, The Limits of Liberalism: The Making of Canadian Sociology.
KI HANG KIM AND FRED WILLIAM ROUSH, Mathematics for Social Scientists.
MARTIN BULMER (ed), Social Research and Royal Commissions.
HERBERT RICHARDSON (ed.), New Religions and Mental Health: Understanding the Issues.
ALAN B. ANDERSON and JAMES S. FRiDERES, Ethnicity in Canada: Theoretical Perspectives.
S.J. WILSON, Women, the Family and the Economy.
IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN, The Modern World-System II. Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600–1750.
JOSEF WILCZYNSKI, An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Marxism, Socialism and Communism.
DAVID GAGAN, Hopeful Travellers: Families, Land and Social Change in Mid-Victorian Peel County, Canada West.
M. PATRICIA MARCHAK, Ideological Perspectives on Canada (2nd ed.).
KEVIN DWYER, Moroccan Dialogues: Anthropology in Question.
JOHN PORTER, MARION PORTER, and BERNARD BL1SHEN, Stations and Callings: Making it Through the School System.
JEAN-GUY VAILLANCOURT, Papal Power: a Study of Vatican Control over Lay Catholic Elites.
LUIS A. SERRON, Scarcity, Exploitation, and Poverty: Malthus and Marx in Mexico.
SALLY M. WEAVER, Making Canadian Indian Policy: The Hidden Agenda, 1968–1970.
TSUYOSHI KATO, Mdtriliny and Migration: Evolving Minangkabau Traditions in Indonesia.
WALLACE CLEMENT, Hardrock Mining. Industrial Relations and Technological Changes at INCO.     

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Carl Waldman, Atlas of the North American Indian (Maps and Illustrations by Molly Braun) Alan D. Mcmillan, Native Peoples and Cultures of Canada: An Anthropological Overview Evelyn Pinkerton (ed.), Co-operative Management of Local Fisheries: New Directions for Improved Management and Community Development Peter Lassman, Politics and Social Theory Alfonso Hernan Molina, The Social Basis of the Microelectronics Revolution Roberta Hamilton, Feudal Society and Colonization: The Historiography of New France Michael Rywkin, Soviet Society Today John Pitts, The Politics of Juvenile Crime Marla N. Powers, Oglala Women: Myth, Ritual and Reality Joyce Nelson, Sultans of Sleaze, Public Relations and the Media Anne Rankin Mahoney, Juvenile Justice in Context Livy Visano, This Idle Trade Vincent Mosco, The Pay-Per Society: Computers and Communication in the Information Age Bryan Palmer (ed.), A Communist Life: Jack Scott and the Canadian Workers Movement, 1927–1985 Lesley D. Harman, When a Hostel Becomes a Home: Experiences of Women John O'neill, The Communicative Body: Studies in Communicative Philosophy, Politics, and Sociology Alan Wolfe, Whose Keeper?: Social Science and Moral Obligation Harry Assu with Joy Inglis, Assu of Cape Mudge: Recollections of a Coastal Indian Chief. Introduction by Michael M. Ames PETER R. GERBER and Maximilien Bruggman, Indians of the Northwest Coast. Translated by Barbara Fritzemeier Thomas Crump, The Anthropology of Numbers Jean-Claude Muller, La calebasse sacree. Initiations Rukuba Dorothy Harley Eber, When the Whalers were up North, Inuit Memories from the Eastern Arctic Gavin Smith, Livelihood and Resistance: Peasants and the Politics of Land in Peru Brigham Y. Card, Herbert C. Northcott, John E. Foster, Howard Palmer And George K. Jarvis (eds.), The Mormon Presence in Canada John D. Early And John F. Peters, The Population Dynamics of the Muca-jai Yanomama     

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Book reviewed in this article:
CANADIAN SOCIAL FORMATIONS AND CANADIAN SOCIAL SCIENCE CRAIG HERON (ed.). Imperialism, Nationalism and Canada.
JOHN HUTCHESON. Dominance and Dependency.
POILIP RESNICK. The Land of Cain: Class and Nationalism in English Canada, 1945–1975.
LEO PANITCH (ed.). The Canadian State: Political Economy and Political Power.
HENRY MILNER. Politics in the New Quebec.
DANIEL GLENDAY. HUBERT GUINDON, and ALLAN TUROWETZ. Modernization and the Canadian State.
ROGER O'TOOLE. The Precipitous Path: Studies in Political Sects.
LEO DRIEDGER (ed.). The Canadian Ethnic Mosaic.
RICHARD A. CARLTON, LOUISE A. COLLEY, and NEIL J. MACKINNON (eds.). Education, Change, and Society: A Sociology of Canadian Education.
S. PARVEZ WAKIL, Marriage and Family in Canada. Journal of Comparative Family Studies Monograph, George Kurian (ed.).
LORNE TEPPERMAN. Crime Control: The Urge Toward Authority.
DAVID B. CHANDLER. Capital Punishment in Canada: A Sociological Study of Repressive Law.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
T.N. GUINSBURG and G.L. REUBER (ed.), Perspectives on the Social Sciences in Canada .
S. PARVEZ WAKIL (ed.), Marriage, Family and Society: Canadian Perspectives
K. ISHWARAN (ed.), The Canadian Family
LYLE E. LARSON. The Canadian Family in Comparative Perspective .
JACQUES LAZURE, Le jeune couple non marié .
SEENA B. KOHL, Working Together: Women and Family in Southwestern Saskatchewan
FREDERICK C. ENGELMANN and MILDRED A. Schwartz Canadian Political Parties: Origin, Character, Impact .
D. LATOUCHE, G. LORD, J. G. VAILLANCOURT (sous la direction de), Le Processus électorale au Québec: les élections provinciales de 1970 et 1973 .
IVAN AVAKUMOVIC, The Communist Party in Canada .
DENNIS FORCESE, The Canadian Class Structure .
RICHARD L. HENSHEL and ROBERT A. SILVERMAN (eds.), Perception in Criminology
JAMES L. WILKINS, Legal Aid in the Criminal Courts .
WILLIAM KELLY and NORA KELLY, Policing in Canada .
WILLIAM SKIDMORE, Theoretical Thinking in Sociology .
La sociolinguistique au Québec, en collaboration, Cahier de linguistique, No 6 .     

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)     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article The Wedding Complex: The Social Organization of a Rite of Passage by Trudy Knicely Henson in collaboration with Wayne Wheeler The Sociology of Developing Societies by Ankie M. M. Hoogvelt The Dialectic of Ideology and Technology: The Origins, Grammar and Future of Ideology by Alvin W. Gouldner Communism in Italy and France by Donald L. M. Blackmer and Sidney Tarrow (eds.) Economics and Demography by Ian Bowen Manpower Planning by D. J. Bartholomew (ed.) The Business of Crime: Italians and Syndicate Crime in the United States by Humbert S. Nelli Sociology's Models of Man by W. L. Skidmore Social Issues in Business by Fred Luthans and Richard M. Hodgetts (eds.) A Social History of Engineering by W. H. G. Armytage Theorizing by Alan Blum British Syndicalism 1900–1914 by Bob Holton Crimes of the Powerful by Frank Pearce The Sociology of Organisations by Angela M. Bowey Social Anthropology in Perspective: The Relevance of Social Anthropology by I. M. Lewis The Dual Vision: Alfred Schutz and the Myth of Phenomenological Social Science by Robert A. Gorman Critical Sociology: Selected Readings by Paul Connerton (ed.) Urban Sociology: Critical Essays by C. G. Pickvance (ed.) Origin and Significance of the Frankfurt School: A Marxist Perspective by Phil Slater     

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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.     

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     

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Book reviewed in this article: PAUL ANISEF and MICHAEL LANPHIER (eds.), The World in a City. REGINALD BYRON (ed.), Retrenchment and Regeneration in Rural Newfoundland. ROBERT CASTEL, l'insécurité sociale. Qu'est‐ce qu'être protégé? HELEN GREMILLION, Feeding Anorexia: Gender and Power at a Treatment Center. YVONNE M. HÉBERT (ed.), Citizenship in Transformation in Canada. STEVE HEWITT, Spying 101: The RCMP's Secret Activities at Canadian Universities, 1917–1997. WINSTON JACKSON, Methods: Doing Social Research. KARIM H. KARIM, Islamic Peril: Media and Global Violence. BERT KLANDERMANS and SUZANNE STAGGENBORG (eds.), Methods of Social Movement Research. MURRAY KNUTTILA, Introducing Sociology: A Critical Perspective. JULIA KRISTEVA and SYLVERE LOTRINGER (eds.), Revolt, She Said. JANE LEWIS, Should We Worry about Family Change? JEANNETTE MARIE MAGEO (ed.), Dreaming and the Self: New Perspectives on Subjectivity, Identity, and Emotion. ROD MICHALKO, The Difference That Disability Makes. OBIORA CHINEDU OKAFOR and OBIJIOFOR AGINAM (eds.), Humanizing Our Global Order: Essays in Honour of Ivan Head. CHARLES RAGIN, Fuzzy‐Set Social Science. ANA Y. RAMOS‐ZAYAS, National Performances: The Politics of Class, Race, and Space in Puerto Rican Chicago. RICHARD SANDELL (ed.), Museums, Society, Inequality. AYSAN SEVER, Fleeing the House of Horrors: Women Who Have Left Abusive Partners. HEATHER STRANG and JOHN BRAITHWAITE (eds.), Restorative Justice and Family Violence. TANYA TITCHKOSKY, Disability, Self, and Society.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
GORAN HYDEN, No Shortcuts to Progress: African Development Management in Perspective
KEITH G. BANTING, The Welfare State and Canadian Federalism
K. ISHWARN (ed.), Marriage and Divorce in Canada
LUCIEN LÉVY-BRUHL, Primitive Mythology: The Mythic World of the Australian and Papuan Natives
Brian Elliott says that he was moved to translate Lucien Lévy-Bruhl's La Mythologie primitive
ROBERT J. BRYM and R. JAMES SACOUMAN (eds). Underdevelopment and Social Movements in Atlantic Canada
BERNARD BADIE and PIERRE BIRNBAUM, The Sociology of the State
ANTHONY B. CHAN, Gold Mountain: The Chinese In The New World
HARRY CON, RONALD J. CON, GRAHAM JOHNSON, EDGAR WICKBERG, WILLIAM E. WILLMOTT, From China to Canada: A History of the Chinese Communities in Canada
MURIEL G. CANTOR and SUZANNE PINGREE, The Soap Opera
KATHERINE VERDERY Transylvanian Villagers: Three Centuries of Political, Economic and Ethnic Change
JOHN O'NEILL, For Marx against Althusser and Other Essays
A.W. DJAO, Inequality and Social Policy
VIVIENNE wALTERS, Class Inequality and Health Care
ROB STEVEN, Classes in Contemporary]apan . Cambridge: University Press, 1983
WILLIAM L. RODMAN and DOROTHY AYERS COUNTS (eds.), Middlemen and Brokers in Oceania
EDWARD G. GRABB, Social Inequality: Classical and Contemporary Theorists
ALAN DUNDES, Life is like a Chicken Coop Ladder. A Portrait of German Culture Through Folklore
BRENT FISSE and JOHN BRAITHWAITE The Impact of Publicity on Corporate Offenders