Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Lopreato, Joseph and Crippen, Timothy Crisis in Sociology: The Need for Darwin
Philo, Greg (ed.) Message Received
South, N. (ed.) Drugs: Cultures, Controls and Everyday Life     

Book Reviews/Comptes rendus

JON CAULFIELD, City Form and Everyday Life: Toronto's Gentrification and Critical Social Practice .
MARCEL DANESI, >Cool: The Signs and Meanings of Adolescence .
GEOFF DENCH, The Frog, the Prince and the Problem of Men .
THOMAS GABOR, Everybody Does It: Crime by the Public .
BYRON J. GOOD, Medicine, Rationality, and Experience:An Anthropological Perspective
PETER GOSE, Deathly Waters and Hungry Mountains: Agrarian Ritual and Class Formation in an Andean Town .
DEBORAH HARRISON and LUCIE LALIBERTÉ, No Life like It: Military Wives in Canada .     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this artilce:
Danger in the Field: Risk and Ethics in Social Reserch, Geraldine Lee-Treweek and Stephanie Linkogle (eds)
Public Sociology. From Social Facts to Literary Acts, Ben Agger
The Reality of the Mass Media Niklas Luhmann
Social Division Geoff Payne (ed.)
The Place of Music Andrew Leyshon, David Matless and George Revill, (eds)
Music in Everyday Life Tia DeNora
'Race', Ethnicity and Adoption Derek Kirton
Welfare, Exclusion and Political Agency Janet Batsleer and Beth Humphries, (eds)
Politics, Power and Old Age John A. Vincent     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: IN SEARCH OF SOLUTIONS — A NEW DIRECTION IN PSYCHOTHERAPY . William Hudson O'Hanlon and Michele Weiner-Davis. THE COUPLE'S HYPNOTIC DANCE . Creating Ericksonian Strategies in Marital Therapy. Carol J. Kershaw. BEYOND THE MYTHS: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Psychology, History, Literature and Everyday Life . Shelley Phillips. COGNITIVE THERAPY AND THE EMOTIONAL DISORDERS . Aaron T. Beck. COGNITIVE THERAPY WITH COUPLES . Frank M. Dattilio and Christine A. Padesky. TREATMENT OF FAMILY VIOLENCE: A SOURCE BOOK . Edited by R.T. Ammerman and M. Hersen.     

Ageing in transnational contexts: transforming everyday practices and identities in later life

ABSTRACT

This Special Issue on ‘Ageing in Transnational Contexts: Transforming Everyday Practices and Identities in Later Life’ extends our understanding of how ageing is experienced in transnational contexts. It focuses on how everyday lives and identities in older age are being negotiated by individuals who have migration histories or who are affected by the mobilities of others in their lives. In the introduction, we situate our approach within an emerging strand of research investigating the inter-related processes of ageing and transnational migration. We also present the seven empirical case studies that constitute the issue and discuss their collective contribution for the research field.     

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)     

Looking‐Glass Self: Goffman as Symbolic Interactionist

My thesis is that for most of his career, Erving Goffman was a symbolic interactionist in the Cooley line. The only sustained theoretical structure in Goffman's work before 1974 follows Cooley's conjecture of the looking‐glass self. Cooley assumed shared awareness, that we “live in the minds of others.” He also realized that shared awareness is virtually invisible in modern societies and proposed pride or shame as the emotions that resulted. Goffman emphasized embarrassment over shame and implied a fourth step beyond Cooley's three: the management of embarrassment or shame. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life is dense with these emotions. Goffman proposed conceptual definitions of the embarrassment and shared awareness that are central to Cooley's idea. The conjunction of shared awareness and emotion in Goffman's examples may be the main feature that arouses reader sympathy. Two hypotheses are formulated here, along with techniques that might be used to test or apply them.     

Motives for sharing illness experiences on Twitter: conversations of parents with children diagnosed with cancer

A patient- and family-centred approach in paediatric health care is important because parents are involved in making key decisions about their child’s health care and advocating for the best interest of the child. Parents and family members are increasingly turning to the internet to find and actively share information about their child’s health care. Twitter is one of many online platforms used by parents of children diagnosed with cancer to share information related to their child’s cancer experience. Existing research suggests that there is a need to better understand the motives for using Twitter for sharing content about a child’s cancer experience. Furthermore, there is a lack of theoretical frameworks for characterizing those motives. In this paper, we identify key themes of tweets posted by parents of children diagnosed with cancer and align those themes with motives inspired by the well-studied Everyday Life Information Seeking framework. We propose a new motive in addition to those associated with the framework and suggest that information can be shared for endogenous reasons as well as to meet the needs of others. This paper contributes an increased understanding of motives for sharing information about a child’s cancer journey and extends a theoretical framework for building further knowledge in this area.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed
Auer, P. (ed.) Code-Switching in Conversation: Language, Interaction and Identity
Malone, Martin J. Worlds of Talk: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Conversation
Diamond, Julie. Status and Power in Verbal Interaction: A Study of Discourse in a Close-Knit Social Network
Roca, Ana and Jensen, John B. (eds.). Spanish in Contact: Issues in Bilingualism
Shaul, David L. and Furbee, N. Louanna. Language and Culture
Kotthoff, Helga and Wodak, Ruth (eds.). Communicating Gender in Context
Wodak, Ruth (ed.). Gender and Discourse
Cheshire, Jenny and Stein, Dieter (eds.). Taming the Vernacular: From Dialect to Written Standard Language     

Book Reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
JEAN L. BRIGGS, Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family
JAMES LORIMER and MYFANWY PHILLIPS, Working People: Life in a Downtown City Neighbourhood
ANTON C. ZUDERVELD, The Abstract Society
THE VANIER INSTITUTE OF THE FAMILY: FREDERICK ELKIN, Report of Family Life Education Survey
DORIS E. GUYATT, One-Parent Family in Canada . Pp. 141. A Kaleidoscope Report of a National Consultation on Family Life Education
DAVID G. FUDGE, Remarriage of Divorced Persons: Research Findings and Possibility of a Canadian Study
Family Research in Canada: Notes from Stanley House Conference 1970
ROSLYN BURSHTYN, Daycare: Establishing Community Services
ROSLYN BURSHTYN, Daycare: A Resource for the Contemporary Family
Milieu 70: Report of the National Conference Held in Winnipeg, 1970
Vanier Institute Transition     

Everyday Conflict and Stress Among Older African American Women

Abstract

Older African American women are at high risk for morbidity due to anger suppression and stress. Yet sources of everyday stress and conflict in the lives of older African American women have not been documented. Such information is essential for developing health promotion programs. A focus group study was conducted with older African American women on everyday stress and conflict. Everyday stress stemmed from worries about functional disability and about accessing transportation. Everyday conflicts occurred with adult children, teen-aged grandchildren, and older neighbors or peers. Conflicts with adult children centered on how the adult child was raising his/her children. Conflicts with grandchildren centered on social respect. Conflicts with neighbors/peers centered on perceived rudeness or past transgressions. Participant strategies for dealing with stress and conflict tended to be avoidant. A training program in constructive conflict strategies for older African American women is presented that draws on information gained in the focus groups.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Criminology Theory Reader , edited by Stuart Henry and Werner Einstadter.
Postmodern Criminology , by Dragan Milovanovic.
Just Punishments: Federal Guidelines and Public Views Compared , by Peter H. Rossi and Richard A. Berk.
The Color of Crime: Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harassment, and Other Macroaggressions , by Katheryn K. Russell.
Everyday Sexism in the Third Millennium , edited by Carol Rambo Ronai, Barbara A. Zsembik, and Joe R. Feagin.
Postfeminisms–Feminism, Cultural Theory, and Cultural Forms , by Ann Brooks.
Feminism and Men: Reconstructing Gender Relations , edited by Steven P. Schacht and Doris W. Ewing.
Ethnic Conflict: Commerce, Culture and the Contact Hypothesis , by H. D. Forbes.     

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     

Making a place in Footscray: everyday multiculturalism,ethnic hubs and segmented geography

In this article, we explore through analyses of interviews the meanings and experiences of everyday multiculturalism in a suburb in Melbourne, Australia. The people we interviewed valued and experienced diversity in different, yet interrelated ways: as an experience of multiculturalism, as providing comfort in diversity and as embodied in ethnic hubs in a segmented geography. Everyday racism can make forging belonging and connections across diverse ethnic groups difficult. Yet, Footscray is constructed as a place in which diversity is regarded as normative and protective. Our focus on a local suburb has allowed us to develop insight into the diverse ways identities are constituted through multiple understandings and experiences of diversity.     

Animal Unconscious: Three Questions

“Animal Unconscious” begins with Freud’s claim, in The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1965), that psychoanalysis proposes “nothing animal is alien to us.” By drawing on recent scholarship in feminist, queer, new materialist, and posthumanist theory, the essay posits that the unconscious is something “animal,” not something uniquely human in order to inquire what this postulate would mean for thinking about 3 problems: the place of animality in institutions of analysis and (higher) learning, the animality of language, and the invention of new modes of kinship. Throughout, the essay speculates on what it means to recast “human” psychoanalysis as an animal practice while simultaneously opening it toward including nonhuman animals in its purview.     

Correction

In the Dec. 9 issue, the article “Alcohol: Prominent role in shorter lives of Americans” contained a typographical error. The sentence beginning “Life expectancy increased from 29.9 years to 78.9 years from 1959 to 2016…” should have read “Life expectancy increased from 69.9 years to 78.9 years from 1959 to 2016….” We regret the error.     

Book reviews

The Significance of Schooling: Life‐Journeys in an African Society. Robert Serpell, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 361 pages, $59.95.

Response to Patricia M. Greenfield's Review of The Significance of Schooling: Life‐Journey's in an African Society

Artifical Experts: Social Knowledge and Intelligent Machines. H. M. Collins. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1990. 266 pages, $15.95 (paper).     

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.