BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
A Social-Contract Theory of Organizations . Michael Keeley. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988, 245 pp. plus references and index.
Disturbing the Nest: Family Change and Decline in Modern Societies . David Popenoe. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1988, 390 pages, $49.95, hardback, $24.95, cloth.
Advancing Communication Science: Merging Mass and Interpersonal Processes . Edited by Robert P. Hawkins, John M. Wieman, and Suzanne Pingree. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1988, 312 pp., paperback.
On the Take: From Petty Crooks to Presidents , 2nd ed. William Chambliss. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988, 301 pages.
Methodology and Epistemology for Social Science . Donald T. Campbell. Selected papers edited by E. Samuel Overman. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988, 609 pages, $62.50, cloth.
Technology and Justice . George Grant. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986, 133 pages, paperback.
Emile Durkheim and the Reformation of Sociology . Stjepan G. Mestrovic. Totawa, NJ: Rowan and Littlefield, 1988, 156 pp.
Certainties and Doubts: Collected Papers, 1962–1985 . George Caspar Homans. New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1987, 420 pages, $34.95, hardback.
Strong Mothers, Weak Wives . Miriam Johnson. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988, 347 pp.
Jürgen Habermas . Michael Pusey. London: Tavistock Publications, 1987, 128 pages, paperback; and New York: Routledge, 1988, $22.50, cloth, Can. $31.50; $8.95, paperback, Can. $13.00.
The World We Created at Hamilton High . Gerald Grant. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988, 2825 pages, $24.95, hardback     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Environmental Sociology: A Social Constructionist Perspective, by John A. Hannigan. New York: Routledge, 1995, 236 pages. Paper, $18.95. It is important to note, however, that environmental risks and problems as socially constructed entities need not undercut legitimate claims about the condition of the environment, thereby denying them an objective reality…. Similarly, social constructionism does not deny the independent causal powers of nature but rather asserts that the rank ordering of these problems by social actors does not always directly correspond to actual need. (p. 30) Challenging Codes: Collective Action in the Information Age, by Alberto Melucci. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996,441 pages. Cloth, $34.95. Reconfiguring the Truth: Postmodernism, Science Studies, and the Search for a New Model of Knowledge, by Steven C. Ward. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Little-field, 1996, 184 pages. Cloth, $52.50; paper, $21.95. One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866–1928, by Matthew J. Mancini. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996, 293 pages. Cloth, $34.95. Becoming American, Becoming Ethnic: College Students Explore Their Roots, edited by Thomas Dublin. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996, 241 pages. Paper, $18.95. The Occupation of Alcatraz Island: Indian Self-Determination and the Rise of Indian Activism, by Troy R. Johnson. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996, 273 pages. Paper, $16.95. The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity, by George L. Mosse. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, 232 pages. Cloth, $25.00. Women, Work, and Gender Relations in Developing Countries: A Global Perspective, edited by Parvin Ghorayshi and Claire Belanger. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996, 246 pages. Cloth, $59.95. Muslim Politics, by Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996, 235 pages. Cloth, $39.50; paper, $13.95. Asian American Women and Men: Labor, Laws, and Love, by Yen Le Espiritu. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997, 146 pages. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $14.95. Desert Capitalism: Maquiladoras in North America's Western Industrial Corridor, by Kathryn Kopinak. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996, 232 pages. Cloth, $45.00.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Block, Joel D. To Marry Again ,
Lorimer, Anne with Feldman, Philip, Remarriage ,
Carter, Elizabeth A. & McGoldrick, Monica. The family life cycle .
Fried, Edrita, The courage to change ,
Haley, Jay. Leaving home: The therapy of disturbed young people .
Madanes, Cloé. Strategic family therapy .
Hess, Allen K., (Ed.), Psychotherapy supervision: Theory, research, practice .
Minuchin, Salvador and Fishman, Charles H. Family therapy techniques .
Schwartz, Gary and Merten, Don; with Behan, Fran and Rosenthal, Allyne. Love and Commitment ,
Singer, Laura J. Stages: The crises that shape your marriage .
Stahmann, Robert F., and Hiebert, William J. Premarital counseling .
Straus, Murray A., & Hotaling, Gerald T. (Eds.). The social causes of husband-wife violence .
Strean, Herbert S. The extramarital affair .
Tymchuk, Alexander J. Parent and family therapy: An integrative approach to family interventions .
Woody, Robert H. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of clinical assessment .     

Abstracts

Chessick, R. D. The sad soul of the psychiatrist. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic , 1978, 42 , 1–9.
Greenberg, G. S. The family international perspective: A study and examination of the work of Don D. Jackson. Family Process , 1977, 16 , 385–112.
Hines, P. M. & Hare-Mustin, R. T. Ethical concerns in family therapy. Professional Psychology , 1978, 9 , 165–171.
Keshet, H. F. & Rosenthal, K. M. Fathering after marital separation. Social Work , 1978, 23 , 11–18.
Loewenstein, S. An overview of some aspects of female sexuality. Social Casework , 1978, 59 , 106–115.
Mace, D. R. & Mace, V. C. Measure your marriage potential: A simple test that tells couples where they are. The Family Coordinator , 1978, 27 , 63–67.
Wexler, J. & Steidl, J. Marriage and the capacity to be alone. Psychiatry , 1978, 41 , 72–82.     

Abstracts

Avery, A., Ridley, C, Leslie, L., and Milholland, T. Relationship Enhancement with Premarital Dyads: A Six-Month Followup. American Journal of Family Therapy , 1980, 8 , 3, 23–31.
Bader, E., Microys, G., Sinclair, C, Willett, E. and Conway, B. Do Marriage Preparation Programs Really Work: A Canadian Experiment. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy , 1980, 6 , 2, 171–179.
Hof, L., Epstein, N., and Miller, W. Integrating Attitudinal and Behavioral Change in Marital Enrichment. Family Relations , 1980, 29 , 241–248.
L'Abate, L. Screening Couples for Marital Enrichment Programs. American Journal of Family Therapy , 1980, 8 , 3, 74–77.
Nelson, R. C. and Friest, W. P. Marital Enrichment through Choice Awareness. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy , 1980, 6, 4, 399–407.
Wagner, V, Weeks, G. and L'Abate, L. Enrichment and Written Message with Couples. American Journal of Family Therapy , 1980, 8 , 3, 36–45.
Wampler, K. S., and Sprenkle, D. H., The Minnesota Couple Communication Program: A Follow-Up Study, Journal of Marriage and the Family, August , 1980, 42 , 3, 577–584.     

An Introduction to the Social Psychology of Insults in Organizations

The author argues that insults are an importantsocial and organizational phenomenon, which causespowerful emotions and enters people's personalhistories. It is suggested that insults involve aperpetrator, a target and, often, an audience. The intentionto insult is not necessary, as some insults are theresult of misunderstanding or accident. However, theexperience of being gratuitously offended and the corresponding feelings of shame, guilt, andanger are fundamental to insults. Several types ofinsults are observed, such as exclusion, stereotyping,obliteration of significant identity details,ingratitude, scapegoating, rudeness, broken promises, beingignored or kept waiting. Even more potent insults resultfrom the defamation or despoiling of idealized objects,persons, or ideas. Different insult dynamics are noted; these include an apology, acommensurate retaliation, a disproportionate retaliationand possible escalation, a retaliation against asurrogate and weaker target than the perpetrator of theinitial insult, an affected indifference with apossible delayed retaliation, or more commonly aresigned tolerance which may fuel subsequent insults.Insults as well as retaliation and resistance to themare part of an organization's political process whichestablishes, first, lines of domination/subordination,second, finer gradations of status and power, i.e., apecking order, and third, opportunities for building coalitions and alliances. It is argued thatinsults allow for a certain mobility within a peckingorder, by offering 'matches' for contestants to pitchtheir wit, venom, and courage against each other. They also enable audiences to take sides, thusinfluencing and testing the operation of coalitions andalliances.     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this article:
Eisler, Riane Tennenhaus. Dissolution: No-fault divorce, marriage, and the future of women .
Hammond, D. Corydon, Hepworth, Dean, H. & Smith, Veon G. Improving therapeutic communication .
Hawkes, Sharryl and Knox, David. One child by choice .
Hyatt, I. Ralph, Before you marry … again .
Kaslow, Florence W. and Associates, Supervision, consultation, and staff training in the helping professions .
Mace, David and Vera, How to have a happy marriage .
Van Hosse, William H. & Kotler, Jeffrey A. Ethical and legal issues in counseling and psychotherapy .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Weeks, Gerald R. & L'Abate, Luciano. Paradoxical psychotherapy: Theory and practice with individuals, couples, and families.
Kempler, Walter. Experiential psychotherapy within families.
Kempler, Walter. Experiential psychotherapy within families.
Box, Sally, Copley, Beta, Magagna, Jeanne and Moustaki, Errica (Eds.). Psychotherapy with families: An analytic approach.
Capra, Fritjof. The turning point: Science, society and the rising culture.
Wolberg, Louis & Aronson, Marvin (Eds.). Group and family therapy, 1981.
Green, Robert J. & Framo, James L. (Eds.). Family therapy: Major contributions.
Wile, Daniel B., Couples therapy: A nontraditional approach.
Willi, Jürg. Couples in collusion.
Becvar, Raphael J. & Becvar, Dorothy Stroh. Systems theory and family therapy: A primer.
Pinney, E. G. & Slipp, S. Glossary of group and family therapy.
Brown, Kristi (Ed.). Family counseling: An annotated bibliography.
Glick, Ira D., Weber, David H., Rubinstein, David & Patten, John T. Family therapy and research: An annotated bibliography.
Olson, David H. & Markoff, Roxanne (Eds.).Inventory of marriage and family literature.     

Book Reviews

Rampton, Ben, Crossing: Language and Ethnicity among Adolescents
Drechsel, Emanuel J., Mobilian Jargon: Linguistic and Sociohistorical Aspects of a Native American Pidgin
Hensel, Chase, Telling Our Selves: Ethnicity and Discourse in Southwestern Alaska
Silverman, David, Discourses of Counselling: HIV Counselling as Social Interaction
Goebl, Hans; Nelde, Peter H.; Starý, Zdeněk and Wölck, Wolfgang (eds), Kontaktlinguistik, Contact Linguistics, Linguistique de contact
Baxter, Leslie A. and Montgomery, Barbara M., Relating: Dialogues and Dialectics
Lanstyák, István and Szabómihály, Gizella, Magyar nyelvhasználat – iskola – kétnyelvüség [Hungarian language use, schools and bilingualism]
Zentella, Ana Celia, Growing up Bilingual: Puerto Rican Children in New York
Fairclough, Norman, Media Discourse     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The People in the Playground . Iona Opie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, 240 pages. Cloth, $60.00.
Gender Play . Barrie Thorne. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993, 237 pages. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $12.95.
Ideal Citizens: The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement . James Max Fendrich. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1993, 202 pages. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $16.95.
The Shadow of Dionysus: A Contribution to the Sociology of the Orgy . Michel Maffesoli. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993, 167 pages. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $16.50.
Jones's Minimal: Low-Wage Labor in the United States . David Griffith. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993, xvii, 266 pages. Cloth, $44.50; paper, $14.95.
The Politics of Pensions: A Comparative Analysis of Britain, Canada, and the United States, 1880–1940 . Ann Shola Orloff. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1993, 381 pages. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.95.
Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France . Robert A. Nye. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 316 pages.
Adolescence: An Anthropological Inquiry . Alice Schlegel and Herbert Barry III. New York: Free Press, 1991, 263 pages. Cloth, $29.95.     

Ethnographic Study of Gay and Bisexual Working-Class Men in the United States

SUMMARY

Thirty-nine working-class gay and bisexual men were interviewed using ethnographic techniques to better understand their resilience in light of homophobia, heterosexism, classism, AIDS, violence and discrimination. Several themes emerged: heterosexual assumption, sense of difference, socialized to hide, gay identity confusion, coming-out as an ongoing process, managing stigma, conflict with religion, family support, relationships, self-concept, working-class attitudes, and drug and alcohol abuse.     

Patriarchy and development in the Arab world

The author defines patriarchy in the Arab context as the prioritizing of the rights of males and elders, and the justification of those rights within kinship values which are usually supported by religion. She considers the systematic impact of patriarchy throughout Arab society in the attempt to understand the persistence of patriarchy in the Arab world. Patriarchy in the Arab world, and other regions, is an obstacle for women, children, families, and states. It affects health, education, labor, human rights, and democracy. The author argues that patriarchy is powerful in the Arab world because age-based kinship values and relationships are crucial socially, economically, politically, ideologically, and psychologically. Sections discuss social patriarchy, economic patriarchy, political patriarchy, religious patriarchy, patriarchy in the self, and development planners, practitioners, and patriarchy.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The State: Its Nature, Development, and Prospects . Gianfranco Poggi. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1990, 214 pages, $29.50, hardback, $9.95, paper.
The Mexican Urban Household: Organizing for Self-Defense . Henry A. Selby, Arthur D. Murphy, and Stephen A. Lorenzen; with Ignacio Cabrera, Aida Castaneda, and Ignacio Ruiz Love. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990, 256 pages, $27.50, hardback.
Corporate Society: Class, Property, and Contemporary Capitalism . John McDermott. Boulder: Westview Press, 1991, 208 pages, $48.50, hardback.
Commonplaces: Community Ideology and Identity in American Culture . David M. Hummon. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990, 236 pages, $49.50 hardback, $16.95 paper.     

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     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Social Psychology, Past and Present: An Integrative Orientation, by Jay M. Jackson. Hillside, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1988, 173 pages, $24.95, cloth. Networks of Power: Organizational Actors at the National, Corporate, and Community Levels, edited by Robert Perrucci and Harry R. Potter. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1989, 136 pages. Charismatic Capitalism: Direct Selling Organizations in America, by Nicole Woolsey Biggart. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989, 223 pages, $24.95, hardback. Liberal Education and the Corporation: The Hiring and Advancement of College Graduates, by Michael Useem. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1989, xxvii + 216 pages, $39.95, hardback, $16.95, paper. Symbolic Communication: Signifying Calls and the Police Response, by Peter K. Manning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988, 309 pages, hardback. Assimilation, Colonialism and the Mexican American People, by Edward Murguia. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1989, 124 pages, $9.75, paperback. Jewish Settler Violence: Deviance as Social Reaction, by David Weisburd. University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989, 164 pages, $22.50, hardback. Differentiation Theory and Social Change: Comparative and Historical Perspectives, edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander and Paul Colomy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990, 496 pages, $40.00, hardback. Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond, by Douglas Kellner. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989, 246 pages, $35.00, cloth, $11.95, paper. Postindustrial Possibilities: A Critique of Economic Discourse, by Fred Block. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990, 227 pages, $35.00, hardback, $12.95, paper. To The Right: The Transformation of American Conservatism, by Jerome L. Himmelstein. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990, 301 pages, $25.00, hardback. Continental Divide: The Values and Institutions of the United States and Canada, by Seymour Martin Lipset. New York: Routledge, 1990, 337 pages, $29.95/US; $35.00/Canada, hardback. Structure and Meaning: Relinking Classical Sociology, by Jeffrey C. Alexander. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989, 258 pages, $35.00, hardback. Emile Durkheim and the Reformation of Sociology, by Stjepan G. Mestrovic. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1988, 156 pages, $28.50, cloth.     

Mediating claims to artistry: Social stratification in a local visual arts community

Participant observation was employed to analyze the stratification of artists in the visual art world around a small northeastern American city. Reflecting their art world reputation, artists' strata included naifs, hobbyists, serious amateurs, aspiring preprofessionals, and professionals. The local careers of some artists moved progressively from lower to higher reaches of the system; as they moved upward, their level of professional commitment, art world involvement, knowledge of art, skill, and artistic style tended to change also. Except among professionals, the great majority were women. Overall, certain art styles were selectively favored. The most important selective mechanisms were formal art education, professionalization, artistic style, network centrality, jurying, and sales. With a few recent exceptions, truly naive and imitative traditional styles were excluded from the upper levels in favor of modernist abstraction, innovative figuration, or sophisticated forms ofart brut.An earlier version of this paper was presented to the 12th World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association, Madrid, July 1990.     

And I Still Love Them: On Touching Loss

In this article, the author performs a re‐membering practice that incorporates a relational materialist theory. It traces the disturbances that follow in the wake of three deaths in her family. Written in an autoethnographic voice, the article is a polyphonic composition of the narrative therapy approach of re‐membering entangled with the spacetimematter of silence, speaking, sitting, staying, presence, absence, loss of momentum, dreams, trees, books, cardiac pace‐makers, writing, breath, ashes, murmuring, suffering. Thus, the dispersed agencies of bodies, human and non‐human, reinvigorate a linguistic practice and the author's personal and professional life.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life , by Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton. New York: Harper & Row, 1985, 355 pages, $8.95 softcover.
The Good Society , by Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991, 347 pages, $25.00 hardcover.
Acts of Compassion: Caring for Others and Helping Ourselves , by Robert Wuthnow, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991, $25.00 hardcover
The Consequences of Modernity , by Anthony Giddens. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1990, 186 pages, $9.95 softcover, $29.50 hardcover.
A Future for the American Economy: The Social Market , by Severyn T. Bruyn. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991, 362 pages, $60.00 hardback.
Work in the Fast Lane: Flexibility, Division of Labor, and Inequality in High-Tech Industries , by Glenna Colclough and Charles M. Tolbert II. Ithaca, NY: State University of New York Press, 1992, 157 pages, $16.95, paper.
Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty and the Underclass , by Christopher Jencks. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992,280 pages, $27.95 hardback.
They Call Her Pastor: A New Role for Catholic Women , by Ruth A. Wallace. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992, 204 pages, $44.50 (est.) hardback, $14.95 (est.) paper.