Book reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Essays on the History of British Sociological Research, M. Bulmer (ed.) Three Sociological Traditions, Randall Collins Macro Sociological Theory: Perspectives on Sociological Theory Vol. I, H.J. Helle and S.N. Eisenstadt (eds) Micro Sociological theory: Perspectives on Sociological Theory Vol. II, H.J. Helle and S.N. Eisenstadt (eds) Powers and Liberties: The Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the West, John A. Hall Talcott Parsons and the Capitalist Nation-State, William Buxton G.H. Mead. A Contemporary Re-Examination of his Thought, Hans Joas Language, Structure and Reproduction. An Introduction to the Sociology of Basil Bernstein, Paul Atkinson Measuring Culture: A Paradigm for the Analysis of Social Organisation, Jonathan L. Gross and Steve Rayner Food in the Social Order, Mary Douglas (ed.) Classes, Erik Olin Wright Annals of the Labouring Poor, K.D.M. Snell Beyond Employment: Household, Gender and Subsistence, Nanneke Redclift and Enzo Mingione (eds.) Women's Working Lives: Patterns and Strategies, Susan Yeandle On Women, Sexuality and Love, Georg Simmel, translated and with an introduction by Guy Oakes A Woman's Place, An Oral History of Working-Class Women 1890–1940, Elizabeth Roberts The Autobiography of the Working Class: An Annotated, Critical Bibliography. Volume 1: 1790–1900, John Burnett, David Vincent and David Mayall (eds) The Sociology of Law, Roman Tomasic Legal Systems and Social Systems, Adam Podgorecki, Christopher J. Whelan and Dinesh Khosla The Politics of the Police, Robert Reiner European Immigration Policy: A Comparative Study, Tomas Hammar (ed.) The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life, Roy Wallis The Need for Religious Certainty: A Sociological Study of Conventional Religion, Robert Towler No Pope of Rome: Militant Protestantism in Modern Scotland, Steve Bruce American Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 1, No 1, 1984, S.S. Nyang (ed.) The Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem, V. Azarya Islamic Sociology, I. Ba-Yunus and F. Ahmad Categories of Medieval Culture, A. J. Gurevich (translated by G.L. Campbell) Science for Social Scientists, John Law and Peter Lodge The Intellectual and Social Organization of the Sciences, Richard Whitley Framing Science: The Making of a BBC Documentary, Roger Silverstone     

New Books

Building for Tomorrow, by B. G. Panley. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Incorporated, 1966. Individual Differences, by Anne Anastasi. New York: John Wiley & Sons The Disadvantaged and Potential Dropout by John Gowan and George D. Demos. Work and the Nature of Man, by Frederick Herzberg. You and Your Child's Career: A Guidance Handbook for Parents, Teachers, and Counselors, by Daniel Sinick. Counseling and Psychotherapy: Classics on Theories and Issues, edited by Ben N. Opportunities in Travel Careers, by Don Short; Opportunities in Music Careers, by Sigmund Spaeth; Opportunities in Traffic Engineering, by Carlton C. Robinson. Encounter (Book I, Being and Becoming Group Guidance Series, Brother Marion F. Belka, editor), by Sister Marion Hasinski, Sister Mary Thomas Murphy, Norbert Riegert, and Reverend Joseph H. Voor. Revolution in Counseling: Implications of Behavioral Science, edited by John D. Krumboltz.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Lakota Culture, World Economy, by Kathleen Ann Pickering. Where We Live, Work and Play: The Environmental Justice Movement and a Struggle for a New Environmentalism, by Patrick Novotny. The Failure of National Rural Policy: Institutions and Interests, by William P. Browne. Waltzing With the Ghost of Tom Joad: Poverty, Myth, and Low‐Wage Labor in Oklahoma, by Robert Lee Maril. An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood, by Jimmy Carter. Microenterprise Development for Better Health Outcomes, by Rosalia Rodriguez‐García, James A. Macinko, and William F. Waters. The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care: A Critical Approach, by Rose Weitz. Social Integration in the Second Half of Life, edited by Karl Pillemer, Phyllis Moen, Elaine Wethington, and Nina Glasgow. State and Community in Fisheries Management: Power, Policy, and Practice, edited by Paul E. Durrenberger and Thomas D. King. The East European Gypsies: Regime Change, Marginality, and Ethnopolitics, by Zoltan Barany.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Information Society in Europe: Work and Life in the Age of Globalization, edited by Ken Ductael, Juliet Webster, and Werner Herrmann. Lanham, MD Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer, by Richard Rhodes. Changing the Way America Farms: Knowledge and Community in the Sustainable Agriculture Movement, by Neva Hassanein. Under the Blade: The Conversion of Agricultural Landscapes, edited by Richard K. Olson and Thomas A. Lyson. Spaces of Globalization: Reasserting the Power of the Local, edited by Kevin R. Cox. World Hunger: Twelve Myths, by Frances Moore Lappé, Joseph Collins, and Peter Rosset. Small Towns in Multilevel Society, by Frank W. Young. Lanham     

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Book reviewed in this article: Biological Diversity: Balancing Interests through Adaptive Collaborative Management, edited by Louise E. Buck, Charles C. Geisler, John Schelhas, and Eva Wollenberg. NGOs in India: A Cross‐Sectional Study, by R. Sooryamoorthy and K.D. Gangarde Working Through Environmental Conflict: The Collaborative Learning Approach, Steven E. Daniels and Gregg B. Walker The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America, by James Mahoney Dairy Industry Restructuring: Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Vo lume 8, edited by Harry K. Schwarzweller and Andrew P. Davidson Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change, by Robert Gottlieb Bridging Human and Ecological Landscapes: Participatory Research and Sustainable Development in an Andean Agricultural Frontier, edited by Robert E. Rhoades     

BRIEF REVIEWS

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THE POORHOUSE: AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN INSTITUTION. By David Wagner. Lanham, MD: Rowman &; Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005. 177 pp. $60.00 (hard), $22.95 (paper). Reviewed by Eleanor Hannon Judah.

PARISH MINISTRY IN A HISPANIC COMMUNITY. By Charles W. Dahm, OP. New York/Mahwah NJ: Paulist Press, 2004. 296 pp. $22.95 (paper). Reviewed by Eleanor Hannon Judah

SPIRITUAL ASSESSMENT: HANDBOOK FOR HELPING PROFESSIONALS. By David R. Hodge. Botsford, CT: North American Association of Christians in Social Work, 2003. 121 pp. $18.00 (paper). Reviewed by Eleanor Hannon Judah.

SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE ACROSS DISABILITY. By Juliet C. Rothman, Boston, MA: Allyn &; Bacon, 2003. 346 pp. $52.20 (paper). Reviewed by Eleanor Hannon Judah.

SILENCE AND WITNESS: THE QUAKER TRADITION. By Michael L. Birkel. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2004. 164 pp. $16.00 (paper). Reviewed by Eleanor Hannon Judah.

JUSTICE: A GLOBAL ADVENTURE. By Walter J. Burghardt. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 2004. 276 pp. $20.00 (paper). Reviewed by Eleanor Hannon Judah.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Nameless Towns: Texas Sawmill Communities, 1880–1942, by Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad. Farming the Cutover: A Social History of Wisconsin, 1900–1940, by Robert Gough. Lawrence Shaping the Sierra: Nature, Culture, and Conflict in the Changing West, by Timothy P. Duane. Long Time Coming: Racial Inequality in the Nonmetropolitan South, 1940–1990, by Mark A. Fossett and M. Therese Seibert. Women and Agribusiness: Working Miracles in the Chilean Fruit Export Sector, by Stephanie Barrientos, Anna Bee, Ann Matear, and Isabel Vogel. To Die in This Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880–1965, by Jeffrey L. Gould. Choices and Chances: Sociology for Everyday Life, by Lorne Tepperman and Angela Djao.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Hidden America: Social Problems in Rural America for the Twenty‐First Century, edited by Robert M. Moore. Unpacking Culture: Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds, edited by Ruth B. Phillips and Christopher B. Steiner. In the Company of Neighbours: Revitalizing Community Through Action Research, by C. Kenneth Banks and J. Marshall Mangan. The Rise of the Agricultural Welfare State: Institutions and Interest Group Power in the United States, France and Japan, by Adam D. Sheingate. Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food and the Environment, edited by Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster, and Frederick H. Buttel. Beyond Equilibrium Theory: Theories of Social Action and Social Change Applied to a Study of Power Sharing in Transition, by M. Ross De‐Witt. Transnational Peasants: Migrations, Networks, and Ethnicity in Andean Ecuador, by David Kyle. Women and Power: Fighting Patriarchies and Poverty, by Janet Townsend, Emma Zapata, Jo Rowlands, Pilar Alberti, and Marta Mercado. Men at Work: Labour, Masculinities, Development, edited by Cecile Jackson.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World Is Possible, 2^nd Ed. Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture & the Cultivation of Sustainability, by Michael Mayerfeld Bell. Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, James W. Loewen. Developing Power: How Women Transformed International Development, edited by Arvonne S. Fraser and Irene Tinker. The Global Women's Movement: Origins, Issues and Strategies, by Peggy Antrobus. Fields of Power, Forests of Discontent: Power, Conservation, and the State in Mexico, by Nora Haenn.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Camembert: A National Myth, by Pierre Boisard When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity, by Kolleen M. Guy Together at the Table: Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agrifood System, by Patricia Allen Fishing for Gold: The Story of Alabama's Catfish Industry, by Karni R. Perez From Rural Village to Global Village: Telecommunications for Development in the Information Age, by Heather E. Hudson     

Book Reviews

Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right, edited by Jeffrey Kaplan. Involuntary Resettlement: Comparative Perspectives, edited by Robert Picciotto, Warren van Wicklin, and Edward Rice. Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at the End of the Millennium, by Douglas S. Massey, Joaquin Arango, Graeme Hugo, Ali Kouaouci, Adela Pelligrino, and J. Edward Taylor. Women and Farming: Property and Power, by Sally Shortall. National Parks and Rural Development: Practice and Policy in the United States, edited by Gary E. Machlis and Donald R. Field. Fishy Business: Salmon, Biology, and the Social Construction of Nature, by Rik Scarce. Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation: Constructing the Culture of Agriculture, by C. Milton Coughenour and Shankariah Chamala. Moving Nearer to Heaven: The Illusions and Disillusions of Migrants to Scenic Rural Places, by Patrick C. Jobes.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Information and Communication Technologies in Rural Society, edited by Grete Rusten and Sarah Skerratt Crisis and Opportunity: Sustainability in American Agriculture, by John E. Ikerd Workforce Development Networks in Rural Areas: Building the High Road, by Gary P. Green Niagara Falling: Globalization in a Small Town, by Carol D. Miller The Treadmill of Production: Injustice and Unsustainability in the Global Economy, by Kenneth Gould, David Pellow, and Allan Schnaiberg     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Privatization of Information and Agricultural Industrialization, edited by Steven A. Wolf. Peasant Maids, City Women: From the European Countryside to Urban America, edited by Christiane Harzig. Land and Labour Relations in South‐West Bangladesh: Resources, Power and Conflict, by Anjan Kumar Datta. Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland, by Kathryn Marie Dudley. Disappearing Peasantries? Rural Labour in Africa, Asia and Latin America, edited by Deborah Bryceson, Cristóbal Kay, and Jos Mooij. A Nation Divided: Diversity, Inequality and Community in American Society, edited by Phyllis Moen, Donna Dempster‐McClain, and Henry A. Walker. Property and Value: Alternatives to Public and Private Ownership, edited by Charles Geisler and Gail Daneker. New Frontiers in Agricultural History, Vol. 1, edited by Kyle D. Kauffman.     

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

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Critical Issues in Rural Health, edited by Nina Glasgow, Lois Wright Morton and Nan E. Johnson. Health Care Restructuring: Market Theory vs. Civil Society, by Lois Wright Morton. Sustainability and Change in Rural Australia, edited by Chris Cocklin and Jacqui Dibden. Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California, by Julie Guthman. Rural Racism, edited by Neil Chakraborti and Jon Garland.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Nature and the Environment in 20^th‐Century American Life, by Brian Black Horse‐and‐Buggy Mennonites: Hoofbeats of Humility in a Postmodern World, by Donald B. Kraybill and James P. Hurd Rivers by Design: State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control, by Karen M. O'Neill Seeds of the Kingdom: Utopian Communities in the Americas, by Anna L. Peterson     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Bioevolution: How Biotechnology is Changing Our World, by Michael Fumento Community and Forests: Where People Meet the Land, edited by Robert G. Lee and Donald R. Field Social Assessment: Theory, Process and Techbiques, 3rd ed., by C. Nicholas Taylor, C. Hobson Bryan and Colin G. Goodrich The Concepts, Process and Methods of Social Impact Assessment: Rabel J. Burdge and Colleagues, by Rabel J. Burdge Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan: Concepts of Tradition and Modernity in Practice, edited by Christopher S. Thompson and John W. Traphagan The Virtual Farmer: Past, Present and Future of the Dutch Peasantry, by Jan Douwe van der Ploeg     

New Books

Exciting Careers for Home Economists, by Lila Spencer. Planning and Paying Your Way to College, by Clodus R. Smith. Careers in Psychiatry prepared under the auspices of the National Commission on Mental Health Manpower. Baron's Guide to Law Schools, by Elliott Epstein, Jerome Shostak, and Lawrence Troy. Special Education Programs Within the United States, edited by Morris Val Jones. Emerging Careers by Warren D. Gribbons and Paul R. Lohnes. Edited by Donald E. Super. Applying for a Job: A Self-Study Guide for Students, by Patricia Roth, Ralph E. Mason, and Floyd J. Phipps. Guiding the Future College Student, by Jean Reiss and Mildred G. Fox. Rehabilitation Research, by George N. Wright and Ann B. Trotter. Counseling the Disadvantaged Youth, edited by William E. Amos and Jean D. Grambs. The Vocational Counseling of Adults and Young Adults, by E. C. Thoroman. Opportunities in Advertising Careers, by George T. Clarke, Opportunities in Physical Therapy, by Bernice Krunhansl, Opportunities in Psychology Careers, by Donald E. Super, Opportunities in Sales Careers, by Kenneth B. Haas. Canadian Guidance Series, Toronto, Ontario: Crest Publishing Company, Ltd., distributed by Guidance Centre, The College of Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States, by Min Zhou and Carl L. The California Cauldron: Immigration and the Fortunes of Local Communities, by William A.V. Clark. Making Democracy Work Better: Mediating Structures, Social Capital, and the Democratic Prospect, by Richard A. Couto with Catherine S. Guthrie. The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia, by Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee. Technology Development in Rural Industries: A Study of China's Collectives, by Hannah Piek.     

Book Reviews

Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America, by Cynthia M. Duncan. Working Hard and Making Do: Surviving in Small Town America, by Margaret K. Nelson and Joan Smith. Downstream and Upstream Ecologists: The People, Organizations, and Ideas Behind the Movement, by Jean Mercier. The Estuary's Gift: An Atlantic Coast Cultural Biography, by David Griffith.