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Book reviewed in this article: Custom and Conflict in British Society Ronald Frankenberg (ed.) Social Class and the Division of Labour: Essays in Honour of Ilya Neustadt Anthony Giddens and Gavin Mackenzie (eds) The Sociological Domain P. Besnard (ed.) The Rules of Sociological Method E. Durkheim Memories of Class: The pre-history and after-life of class Zygmunt Bauman Problems in Class Analysis G. Carchedi, Routledge&Kegan Paul Capital Labour and the Middle Classes Nicholas Abercrombie and John Urry The New Working Class? White Collar Workers and Their Organisations: A Reader Richard Hyman and Robert Price (eds) The Upper Classes: Property and Privilege in Britain John Scott Conflict and Compromise, Class Eormation in English Society, 1830-1914 Dennis Smith The English and Colonial Bars in the Nineteenth Century Daniel Durman, Croom Helm State, Class and Recession S. Clegg, G. Dow and P. Boreham (eds) Capitalist Democracy in Britain Ralph Miliband Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth-Century Britain Victor Bailey (ed.) Conflict, Polities and the Urban Seene K.R. Cox and R.J. Johnson Critical Readings in Planning Theory Chris Paris (ed.) Political Attitudes in America, Formation and Change Paul R. Abramson Anti-Nuelear Protest: The Opposition to Nuclear Energy in France Alain Touraine Soeiology and the School: An Interactionist Viewpoint Peter Woods Literary Theory: An Introduction Terry Eagleton Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art Janet Wolff The Jack Roller at Seventy The Jack Roller and Jon Snodgrass with Gilbert Geis, James F. Short, Jnr and Solomon Kobrin     

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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 The Antinomies of Classical Thought: Marx and Durkheim J.C. Alexander The Individual and the Social Self: Unpublished Work of George Herbert Mead David L. Miller (ed.)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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Homo Academicus Pierre Bourdieu (translated by Peter Collier) Feminism as Critique Seyla Benhabib and Drucilla Cornell (eds). Erving Goffman: Exploring the Interaction Order Paul Drew and Anthony Wootton, (eds). On Durkheim’s Rules of Sociological Method Mike Gane The Shaking of the Foundations Ronald Fletcher Rethinking the Life Cycle Alan Bryman, Bill Bytheway, Patricia Allatt and Teresa Keil The World We Created at Hamilton High Gerald Grant From School to Unemployment: The Labour Market for Young People P. N. Junankar (ed.) Political Parties: Organization and Power Angelo Panebianco Intercorporate Relations: The Structural Analysis of Business Mark S. Mizruchi and Michael Schwartz (eds) A Divided Working Class: Ethnic Segmentation and Industrial Conflict in Australia Constance Lever-Tracy and Michael Ouinlan John Bull’s Island: Immigration and British Society, 1871-1971 Colin Holmes The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories John Tagg Black Culture, White Youth: the Reggae tradition from JA to UK Simon Jones Constructive Drinking: Perspectives on Drink from Anthropology M. Douglas (ed.) Quantity and Quality in Social Research Alan Bryman, Unwin Hyman Exploring Data: An Introduction to Data Analysis for Social Scientists Catherine Marsh     

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Book reviewed in this article: Book reviews are indexed in the Book Review Index Contemporary Hermeneutics by Josey Bleicher. Higher Education for the Future by Charles Carter. Process and Structure in Higher Education by Tony Becher and Maurice Kogan. The University Teacher and his World by Richard Startup. Working Class Culture: Studies in History and Theory by John Clarke, Chas Crichter, and Richard Johnson (ed.). The Sociology of Belief: Fallacy and Foundation by Keith Dixon The Microelectronics Revolution: the Complete Guide to the New Technology and its Impact on Society by Tom Forester (ed.) The Computerisation of Society: A report to the President of France. by Simon Nora and Alain Mine. The Sociology of Literature by John Hall. Marxism, Ideology and Literature by Cliff Slaughter. Origins and Destinations: Family, Class and Education in Modern Britain by A. H. Halsey, A. F. Heath, J. M. Ridge. Work, Society and Politics: The Culture of the Factory in Later Victorian England by Patrick Joyce. The Concept of Ideology by Jorge Larrain. Bastardy and its Comparative History by P. Laslett, K. Oosterveen and R. Smith (eds.). TUC: the Growth of a Pressure Group 1868–1976 by Ross M. Martin. State Housing in Britain by Stephen Merrett. Housing, Social Policy and the State by Joseph Melting (ed.). The Control of Work by John Purcell and Robin Smith (eds.). Masters, Unions and Men: Work Control in Building and the Rise of Labour 1830–1914 by Richard Price. The Sociology of Welfare: Social Policy, Stratification and Political Order by Graham Room. Rubbish Theory: The Creation and Destruction of Value by Michael Thompson. Women, Work and Family by L. A. Tilly and J. W. Scott.     

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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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Books review in this article: The Inclusive Society? Social Exclusion and New Labour Ruth Levitas Powers of Freedom. Reframing Political Thought Nikolas Rose Required Reading: Sociology's Most Influential Books Dan Clawson (ed.) The Lived Body: Sociological Themes, Embodied Issues Simon J. Williams and Gillian Bendelow Nature: Western Attitudes since Ancient Times Peter Coates Prostitution, Power and Freedom Julia O'Connell Davidson Men Who Sell Sex Peter Aggleton (ed.) Organization-Representation: Work and Organization in Popular Culture John Hassard and Ruth Holliday (eds) Global Transformations. Politics, Economics and Culture David Held and Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton Class in Britain Ivan Reid The Play of Reason: From the Modern to the Postmodern Linda Nicholson     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Research Relationship G. Clare Wenger, (ed.) Classic Disputes in Sociology R. J. Anderson, J. A. Hughes and W. W. Sharrock (eds) Social Theory Today Anthony Giddens and Jonathan Turner (eds) Sociology and Social Welfare Michael Sullivan, Allen and Unwin Comparative Anthropology Ladislav Holy, (ed.) Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective Louis Dumont The Imaginary Institution of Society Cornelius Castoriadis, trans. Property Andrew Reeve, Macmillan, Basingstoke Myths of the Chicago School of Sociology Lee Harvey Towards A Critique of Foucault Mike Gane (ed.) Family Life in Western Societies J. E. Goldthorpe Reproducing Families: The Political Economy of English Population History David Levine Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780–1850 Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall Love in America: Gender and Self Development Francesca M. Cancian Neighbours: The Work of Philip Abrams Martin Bulmer (ed.) Ritualised Friendship and the Greek City Gabriel Herman Medical Power and Social Knowledge Bryan S. Turner Social Hygiene in Twentieth Century Britain Greta Jones, Croom Helm From Farming to Biotechnology. A Theory of Agro-Industrial Development David Goodman, Bernardo Sorj and John Wilkinson Workplace Industrial Relations and Technical Change W. W. Daniel Managing the Factory P. K. Edwards The Politics of the UCS Work-in John Foster and Charles Woolfson Redundancy and Recession in South Wales C. C. Harris Recession, Crime and Punishment Steven Box Crisis and Transition: Polish Society in the 1980s Jadwiga Koralewicz, Ireneusz Bialecki and Margaret Watson (eds) The Roots of Football Hooliganism Eric Dunning, Patrick Murphy and John Williams, Routledge and Kegan Paul Music and Society; The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception R. Leppert and S. McClary (eds)     

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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     

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Books reviewed in this article: School Life and Work Life: A Study of Transition in the Inner City by John Bazalgette Doing Sociological Research by Colin Bell and Howard Newby (eds.) The Perceptual World of the Child by Tom Bower Children's Drawings by Jacqueline Goodnow The First Relationship: Infant and Mother by Daniel Stern What is a Child? by Nicholas Tucker Newspaper History from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day. by George Boyce, James Curran, and Pauline Wingate (eds.) Marx's Capital and Capitalism Today, Vol. 2 by Anthony Cutler, Barry Hindess, Paul Hirst and Athar Hussain. Women and Schooling by Rosemary Deem Contemporary Europe: Social Structures and Cultural Patterns by Salvador Giner and Margaret Scotford Archer (eds.) The Theory of Social Action: The Correspondence of Alfred Schutz and Talcott Parsons by Richard Grathoff (ed.) Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order by Stuart Hall, Chas ditcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke and Brian Roberts Progress and its Problems: Towards a Theory of Scientific Growth by Larry Laudan Privilege in the Soviet Union. A Study of Elite Life-Styles under Communism by Mervyn Matthews Privilege in the Soviet Union. A Study of Elite Life-Styles under Communism by Mervyn Matthews Class Struggle, The State and Medicine: An Historical and Contemporary Analysis of the Medical Sector in Great Britain by Vicente Navarro The Blue-Coated Worker by Robert Reiner Richard Titmuss, Welfare and Society by D. A. Reisman Power and the Curriculum: Issues in Curriculum Studies by Colin Richards (ed.) Education and the Political Order. Changing Patterns of Class Control by Ted Tapper and Brian Salter The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays by E. P. Thompson Experimentation in American Religion. The New Mysticisms and their Implications for the Churches by Robert Wuthnow     

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Book reviewed in this article: Wittgenstein and Scientific Knowledge by D. L. Phillips. Racial Disadvantage in Britain by David J. Smith. Language and Materialism:Developments in Semiology and the Theory of the Subject by Rosalind Coward and John Ellis. Sabotage: A Study in Industrial Conflict by Geoff Brown. Rationality, Education and the Social Organization of Knowledge by Chris Jenks (ed.). Aspects of Illness by Robert Dingwall. Common Factors/Vulgar Factions by Jeff Nuttall and Rodick Carmichael. Ruling class, Ruling Culture: Studies of Conflict, Power and Hegemony in Australian Life by R. W. Connell. The Fragmentary Class Structure by K. Roberts, F. G. Cook, S. C. Clark and Elizabeth Semeonoff. Rural Society by Irwin T. Sanders. The Production of Political Television by Michael Tracey. Whose Music? A Sociology of Musical Languages by John Shepherd, Phil Virden, Graham Vulliamy and Trevor Wishart. Big-City Police by Robert M. Fogelson. Retiring to the Seaside by Valerie A. Karn. The Sociology of Power by Roderick Martin. The Lower Middle Class in Britain by Geoffrey Crossick (ed.). Critical Issues in Organizations by Stewart Clegg and David Dunkerley (eds.). Power and Ideology in Education by Jerome Karabel and A. H. Halsey. Estrangement, Alienation and Exploitation: A Sociological Approach to Historical Materialism by John Torrance. Marx's ‘Capital’ and Capitalism Today: Vol. One by Anthony Cutler, Barry Hindess, Paul Hirst and Athar Hussain. The BBC—Public Institution and Private World by Tom Burns. The Myth of Mass Culture by Alan Swingewood.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Hermeneutics and Social Science: Approaches to Understanding by Zygmunt Bauman Structure, Consciousness and History by Richard Harvey Brown and Stanford M. Lyman (eds.) The Politics of Legitimacy: Struggles in a Belfast Community by Frank Burton. City, Class and Power by Manuel Castells, translated by Elizabeth Lebas Australian Society. A Sociological Introduction by A. F. Davies, S. Encel and M. J. Berry (eds.) The Bard of Savagery: Thorstein Veblen and Modern Social Theory by John P. Diggins Groups and Individuals: Explanations in Social Psychology by Willem Doise Industry and Labour: Class Struggle at Work and Monopoly Capitalism by Andrew L. Friedman Illegitimacy, Sexuality and the Status of Women by Derek Gill Teachers, Ideology and Control: A Study in Urban Education by Gerald Grace The Liberation of Women: A Study in Patriarchy and Capitalism by Roberta Hamilton Renaissance Man by Agnes Heller The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism: Work, Unions and Politics in Sweden by W. Korpi Power and the State by Gary Littlejohn, Barry Smart, John Wakeford and Nina Yuval-Davies (eds. Marx: Sociology/Social Change/Capitalism by Donald McQuarie (ed) Marx's Theory of Politics by John M. Maguire The Rules of Disorder by P. Marsh, E. Rosser and R. Harré The Dilemmas of Contemporary Religion by David Martin A General Theory of Secularization by David Martin Tragic Realism and Modem Society: Studies in the Sociology of the Novel by John Orr Karl Mannheim's Sociology of Knowledge by A. P. Simonds Ways of the Hand: The Organization of Improvised Conduct by David Sudnow The Personnel Managers: A Study in the Sociology of Work and Employment by Tony J. Watson Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales by Glyn Williams (ed.) The American Ideology: Science, Technology and Organization as Modes of Rationality in Advanced Industrial Societies by H. T. Wilson The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions by William Julius Wilson     

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Book reviewed in this article: Own or Other Culture John Okely, New Ethnicities and Urban Culture: racisms and multiculture in young lives Les Back, Consumption and Identity at Work Paul du Gay, Gender, Culture and Organizational Change: Putting theory into practice Catherine Itzin and Janet Newman (eds), Good enough Mothering? Feminist Perspectives on Lone Mothering E.B. Silvam (ed.), Citizenship Today: The Contemporary Relevance of T. H. Marshall Martin Bulmer and Anthony M. Rees (eds), Democracy and the Global Order. From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance David Held, Conflicts about class: debating inequality in late industrialism. D.J. Lee and B.S. Turner (eds), Medicine, Health and Risk: Sociological Approaches Jonathon Gabe (ed.), Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Analysis Barry Barnes, War Stories – The Culture of Foreign Correspondents Mark Pedelty,     

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Book reviewed in this article: Law and Society: An Introduction by Lawrence M. Friedman. The Evolution of Societies by Talcott Parsons. The Silent Watchdog: The Press in Local Politics by David Murphy. Selected Works: Volume V by Mao Tsetung. Medical Encounters: The Experience of Illness and Treatment by Alan Davis and Gordon Horobin (eds.). Knowledge and Social Imagery by David Bloor. They Don't Speak Our Language: Essays on the Language World of Children and Adolescents by Sinclair Rogers (ed.). Marxism and Politics by Ralph Miliband. Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn by Alan Dawley. Part-Time Crime: An Ethnography of Fiddling and Pilferage by Jason Ditton. The Hidden Injuries of Class by Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb. Mode of Production and Social Formation by Barry Hindess and Paul Hirst. The Political Economy of Science by H. and S. Rose (eds.). Adolescence and Community: The Youth Service in Britain by John Eggleston. The Labour Aristocracy in Victorian Edinburgh by Robert G. Gray. The Urban Question:A Marxist Approach by Manuel Castells. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy by Joseph A. Schumpeter. Identity and Structure: Issues in the Sociology of Education by Denis Gleeson (ed.). Progressive Retreat: A Sociological Study of Dartington Hall School 1926–1957 and some of its Former Pupils by Maurice Punch. Reply to Michael Levin's Review of Jaroslav Krejci. Reply to Dr. Krejci's rejoinder     

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The Structure of Social Theory Terry Johnson, Christopher Dandeker and Clive Ashworth. Human Nature and Biocultural Evolution Joseph Lopreato, George Allen & Unwin. The Body and Society Bryan S. Turner, Basil Blackwell Durkheim and Modern Sociology Steve Fenton. Social Scientist as Innovator Michael Young. Studies in the Theory of Ideology John B. Thompson. Changing the Subject: Psychology. Social Regulation and Sub-jectivity J. Henriques, W. Holloway, C. Urwin, C. Venn and V Walkerdine, Methuen. Social Texts and Contexts: Literature and Social Psychology Jonathan Potter, Peter Stringer and Margaret Wetherell, Rout-ledge & Kegan Paul. The Language of Advertising Torben Vestergaard and Kim Schrøder. Introduction to the Sociology of Development Andrew Webster, Macmillan. Vision and Method in Historical Sociology Theda Skocpol. Spatial Divisions of Labour: Social Structures and the Geography of Production Doreen Massey, Macmillan. Capitalism and Class in the Middle East: Theories of Social Change and Economic Development Bryan S. Turner. Directors of Industry: The British Corporate Network 1904-1976 John Scott and Catherine Griff. Class at Work: The Design, Allocation and Control of Jobs Craig R. Littler and Graeme Salaman. White-Collar Proletariat: Deskilling and Gender in Clerical Work Rosemary Crompton and Gareth Jones. Equals Before God: Seminarians as Humanistic Professionals Sherryl Kleinman. Microprocessors, Manpower and Society Malcolm Warner (ed.). The State and Nuclear Power. Conflict and Control in the Western World J. R. Camilleri. The Sociology of Law: An Introduction Roger Cotterrell, Butterworths. Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood Kristin Luker. Abortion Freedom: A Worldwide Movement Colin Francome, Allen & Unwin. Theories of Welfare Anthony Forder, Terry Caslin, Geoffrey Ponton and Sandra Walklate, Routledge & Kegan Paul. The Impact of Social Policy VIC George and Paul Wilding, Routledge & Kegan Paul. Marital Violence (Sociological Review Monograph: 31) Norman Johnson (ed.), Routledge & Kegan Paul. Making an Issue of Child Abuse Barbara J. Nelson. In the Field: An Introduction to Field Research Robert G. Burgess, George Allen & Unwin, Hemel Hempstead.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Agriculture and Development: Albrecht , Don E., and Steve M. Murdock . The Sociology of U.S. Agriculture: An Ecological Perspective. Agriculture and Development: Hallberg , M. C, Jill L. Findeis , and Daniel A. Lass (eds.). Multiple Job-Holding Among Farm Families. Agriculture and Development: Eicher , Carl K., and John M. Staatz (eds.). Agricultural Development in the Third World. Agriculture and Development: Adams , Dale W., and Delbert A. Fitchett (eds.). Informal Finance in Low-Income Countries. Community and Work: Oldenquist , Andrew, and Menachem Rosner (eds.). Community and Work: Fugita , Stephen S., and David J. O'Brien . Japanese American Ethnicity: The Persistence of Community. Community and Work: Colclough , Glenna, and Charles M. Tolbert II. Work in the Fast Lane: Flexibilities, Division of Labor, and Inequality in High Tech Industries. Community and Work: Kemmis , Daniel . Community and the Politics of Place. Community and Work: Murdock , Steve H., and David R. Ellis . Applied Demography: An Introduction to Basic Concepts, Methods, and Data. Community and Work: South , Scott J., and Stewart E. Tolnay (eds.). The Changing American Family: Sociological and Demographic Perspectives. Community and Work: Goodman , David, and Michael Redclift . Refashioning Nature: Food, Ecology and Culture. Machlis , Gary E., and Donald R. Field (eds.). On Interpretation: Sociology for Interpreters of Natural and Cultural History. Community and Work: Mason , Robert J. Contested Lands: Conflict and Compromise in New Jersey's Pine Barrens. Community and Work: Hallberg , Milton C. (ed.). Bovine Somatotropin and Emerging Issues: An Assessment.     

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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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Man, His Nature and Place in the World Arnold Gehlen Durkheimian Sociology: Cultural Studies Jeffrey C. Alexander (ed.) Max Weber: An Introduction to His Life and Work Dirk Kasler Max Weber's ‘Science as a Vocation’ Peter Lassman and Irving Velody with Herminio Martins (eds) Legislators and Interpreters: On Modernity, Post-modernity and Intellectuals Zygmunt Bauman The Nature of Power Barry Barnes Bureaucracy and Political Power B. C. Smith Bureaucracy David Beetham Power and Prestige in the British Army R. G. L. von Zugbach Landlords and Capitalists: the Dominant Class of Chile Maurice Zeitlin and Richard Earl Ratcliff Women's Attitudes Towards Work Shirley Dex GJender Segregation at Work S. Walby (ed.). Falling from Grace: The Experience of Downward Mobility in the American Middle Class Katherine S. Newman After Redundancy John Westergaard, Iain Noble and Alan Walker In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy Charles S. Maier The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left Stuart Hall Material Culture and Mass Consumption Daniel Miller Sport, Politics and the Working Class: Organized Labour and Sport in Inter-War Britain Stephen G. Jones English Football and Society, 1919–1950 Nicholas Fishwick The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith since World War II Robert Wuthnow Homoeopathy and the Medical Profession Phillip A. Nicholls Social Work and Received Ideas C. Rojek, G. Peacock and S. Collins The Logic of Social Welfare: Conjectures and Formulations Brij Mohan     

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Book reviewed in this article: Introduction to the Sociology of Developing Societies Hamza Alavi and Teodor Shanin (eds) Sub-Saharan Africa Chris Allen and Gavin Williams (eds) T.S. Kuhn and Social Science, Barry Barnes. Art Worlds Howard S. Becker Black Youth in Crisis Ernest Cashmore and Barry Troyna (eds) English Country Houses and Landed Estates Heather A. Clemenson In the Active Voice Mary Douglas The Civilized Body P. E. S. Freund Classes, Power and Conflict: Classical and Contemporary Debates Anthony Giddens and David Held (eds) Sport, Culture and Ideology J. Hargreaves (ed.) Social Mobility Anthony Heath Social Mobility: a Study of Social Control and Insatiability Earl Hopper Social Relations and Human Attributes P. Hirst and P. Woolley The Development of Underdevelopment in China: A Symposium Philip C. C. Huang (ed.) A Third World Proletariat? Peter Lloyd The Politics of the Second Electorate: Women and Public Participation J. Lovenduski and J. Hills (eds) Max Weber and Karl Marx Karl Löwith Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology, Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock Work and Retirement Stanley Parker The Transition from School to Work Michael West and Peggy Newton (eds)     

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Books reviewed in this article: The Sources of Social Power Volume 1: A History of Power from the Beginning to A.D. 1760 M. Mann A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism, Volume Two: The Nation-State and Violence Anthony Giddens Nationalism and the State (Revised edition) John Breuilly The British State and the Ulster Crisis from Wilson to Thatcher paul Bew and Henry patterson Sociological Theory, Religion and Coollective Action Roy Wallis and Steve Bruce The Problem of Altruism C. R. Badcock Subjectivity and Social Relations Veronica Beechey and James Donald (eds.) Power, Action and Belief: A New Sociology of Knowledge? Sociological Review Monograph No. 32, John Law (ed.), Routledge & Kegan Paul Foucault, Marxism and History: Mode of Production versus Mode of Information Mark Poster Genealogies of Morals: Nietzsche, Foucault, Donzelot and the Eccentricity of Ethics Jeffrey Minson Selections from Cultural Writings Antonio Gramsci, edited by David Rogacs and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith Popular Culture and Social Relations T. Bennett, C. Mercer and J. woolacott (eds.) The Polictical Economy of Science and Techonology Norman Clark Casino Capitalism Susan Strange The Enchanted World: inflation, credit and the world crisis Alain Lipietz Critique of Commodity Aesthetics: Appearance, Sexuality and Advertising in Capitalist Society W. F. Haug Western Sexuality: Practice and Precept in Past and Present Times Philippe Aries and Andre Bejin, (eds.) Cross-class Families: A Study of Wives’Occupational Superiority Susan McRae Plant Closings: Power, Politics and Workers Lawrence E. Rothstein, Croom Helm Official Statistics Martin Slattery     

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Books reviewed in this article: Sociological Theory in Transition, Mark L. Wardell and Stephen P. Turner (eds) The Category of Person, M. Carrithers, S. Collins and S. Lukes (eds) Social Relations and Spatial Structures, Derek Gregory and John Urry (eds) Nicos Poulantzas Marxist Theory and Political Strategy, Bob Jessop The View from Afar, Claude Lévi-Strauss New Approaches to Economic Life, Bryan Roberts, Ruth Finnegan and Duncan Gallie (eds) Cities in Crisis: the political economy of urban development in postwar Britain, Gareth Rees and John Lambert The Politics of Recession, R.W. Johnson Landscapes of Poverty, Jeremy Seabrook The Decline of Class Voting in Britain: Changes in the Basis of Electoral Choice, 1964–1983, Mark N. Franklin How Britain Votes, Anthony Heath, Roger Jowell and John Curtice Skilled Workers In the Class Structure, Roger Penn Managing the Police: Law, Organisation and Democracy, David Bradley, Neil Walker and Roy Wilkie Teachers' Work, R.W. Connell Sociology and School Knowledge: Curriculum theory, research and politics, Geoff Whitty Literacy in theory and practice, Brian V. Street Literacy, Language and Learning, David R. Olson, Nancy Torrance and Angela Hildyard (eds) Urban Rhythms: Pop Music and Popular Culture, Iain Chambers Painting, Language and Modernity, Michael Phillipson Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion: Its dubious impact on American society, Michael Schudson, 1985 The Childless Marriage: an exploratory study of couples who do not want children, Elaine Campbell Sexuality and its Discontents: Meanings, myths and modern sexualities, Jeffrey Weeks