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Book reviewed in this article: Modern Italian Social Theory Richard Bellamy Philosophy and the Human Sciences R.J. Anderson, John A. Hughes and W.W. Sharrock, Croom Helm Thinking about Social Thinking - The Philosophy of the Social Sciences Antony Flew The Nature of Historical Knowledge M. Stanford Theories of Social Change Raymond Boudon The Urbanisation of Capital: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanisation David Harvey Islam and the Destiny of Man G. Eaton, Allen and Unwin Turkey in the World Capitalist System H. Ramazanoglu (ed.) Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt J.E. Tucker Class, Politics and the Ecorwmy Stewart Clegg, Paul Boreham and Geoff Dow Social Mobility and Social Structure Bogdan Mach and Wlodzimierz Wesolowski, Routledge & Kegan Paul Research Methods for Elite Studies George Moyser and Margaret Wagestaffe (eds) Women's Work, Class, and the Urban Household: A Study of Shimla, North India Ursula Sharma Unemployment under Capitalism: the sociology of British and American Labour Markets D.N. Ashton Young Adults in the Labour Market D.N. Ashton and M. J. Maguire with the assistance of D. Bowden, P. Deliow, S. Kennedy, G. Stanley, G. Woodhead, and B. Jennings The Experierwe of Unemployment Sheila Allen, Alan Waton, Kate PurceU and Stephen Wood (eds) The Future of Democracy Norberto Bobbio Models of Democracy David Held Democratic Socialism in Jamaica: the Political Movement and Social Transformation in Dependent Capitalism Evelyne Huber Stephens and John D. Stephens, Macmiilan New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change J.A. Beckford (ed.) Sport, Leisure and Social Relations, Sociological Review Monograph 33 John Home, David Jary and Alan Tomlinson (eds) Language and the Nuclear Arms Debate: Nukespeak Today Paul Chilton (ed.)     

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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 articles: Sociology: The State of the Art Tom Bottomore, Stefan Nowak and Magdalena Sokolowska (eds) A Treatise on Social Theory, Volume 1: The Methodology of Theory W.G. Runciman Contemporary Political Philosophy: Radical Studies Keith Graham (ed.) Capital and Politics Roger King (ed.) Supremaey and Subordination of Labour: The Hierarehy of Work in the Early Labour Movement Mike Holbrook-Jones The Development of the Labour Process in Capitalist Societies: A Comparative Study of the Transformation of Work Organisation in Britain, Japan and the USA Craig R. Littler Blue-Collar Workers and Politics: A French Paradox Richard A. DeAngelis Contemporary French Political Parties David S. Bell (ed.) The Family and Industrial Society C.C. Harris White-Collar Work K. Prandy, A. Stewart and R.M. Blackburn Industrial Relations in Britain G.S. Bain (ed.) Women in Control: Dilemmas of a Workers Co-operative Judy Wajeman An Economic History of Women in America Julie A. Matthaei Racial and Ethnic Competition Michael Banton Labour and Raeism Annie Phizacklea and Robert Miles Racism and Migrant Labour Robert Miles Contemporary Education Policy John Ahier and Michael Flude (eds) Solidarity: The Analysis of a Social Movement: Poland 1980–1981 Alain Touraine, François Dubet, Michel Wievorka, Jan Strzelcki The Rites of Rulers Christel Lane Political Anatomy of the Body: Medical Knowledge in Britain in the Twentieth Century David Armstrong Class, Sports, and Social Development Richard Gruneau Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word Walter J. Ong From Author to Reader Peter H. Mann     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Authors of Their Own Lives: Intellectual Autobiographies by Twenty American Sociologists Bennett M. Berger (ed.)
Post-Marxist Alternatives: the Construction of Social Orders Nicos P. Mouzelis
Surveillance, Power and Modernity Christopher Dandeker
Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity Bryan S. Turner (ed.)
Sexual Subversions: Three French Feminists Elizabeth Grosz
Sociobiology and the Social Sciences Robert W. Bell and Nancy J., Bell (eds)
The Dilemma of Qualitative Method: Herbert Blumer and the Chicago Tradition Martyn Hammersley
Collective Remembering David Middleton and Derek Edwards (eds)
Models and Mirrors: Towards an Anthropology of Public Events D. Handelman
Black Music in Britain: Essays on the Afro-Asian Contribution to Popular Music P. Oliver (ed.)
The Unprincipled Society: New Demands and Old Politics David Marquand
New Forms of Ownership: Management and Employment G. Jenkins and M. Poole (eds)
Patterns of Labour: Work and Social Change in the Pottery Industry Richard Whipp
Social Work in an Enterprise Society Robert Pinker
The Politics and Morality of Deviance: Moral Panics , Drug Abuse
Readings in Medical Sociology S. Cunningham-Burley and N.P. McKeganey (eds)
New Directions in the Sociology of Health Pamela Abbott and Geoff Payne (eds)     

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Book reviewed in this article: Prospects for the National Health by Paul Atkinson et al. (eds.) Beyond the Sociology of Conflict by David Binns The Working Class in the Labour Market by R. M. Blackburn & Michael Mann Liberalism and Sociology: L. T. Hobhouse and Political Argument in England Class and Hierarchy: The Social Meaning of Occupations by Anthony P. M. Coxon & Charles L. Jones Jamaica Farewell: Jamaican Migrants in London by Nancy Foner Language and control by Roger Fowler et al Language as ideology by Gunther Kress and Robert Hodge Gender Advertisements by Erving Goffman The Political Economy of the Welfare State by Ian Gough Beyond Separation: Further Studies of Children in Hospital by David Hall and Margaret Stacey (eds.) The Sociological Movement in Law by Alan Hunt White-Collar Unionism: The Rebellious Salariat by Clive Jenkins and Barrie Sherman Bureaucracy: The Career of a Concept, by E. Kamenka and M. Krygier (eds.) Western Sociologists on Indian Society by G. R. Madan Science and the Sociology of Knowledge by Michael Mulkay The Idea of Welfare by Robert Pinker The Development of the Modern State: A Sociological Introduction by Gianfranco Poggi Education in Rural America: A Reassesment of Conventional Wisdom by J. P. Sher, (ed.) G. D. H. Cole and Socialist Democracy, by A. W. Wright     

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Book reviewed in this article: Barbara Wootton, social science and public policy, essays in her honour Philip Bean and David Whynes (eds) Risk Acceptability According to the Social Sciences Mary Douglas, Routledge & Kegan Paul Structures of Thinking Karl Mannheim, edited by David Kettler, Volker Meja and Nico Stehr, translated by Jeremy J. Shapiro and Shierry Weber Nicholsen, Routledge & Kegan Paul Conservatism: a Contribution to the Sociology of Knowledge Karl Mannheim, edited by D. Kettler, Volker Meja and Nico Stehr, translated by David Kettler, Volker Meja and Elizabeth R. King, Routledge & Kegan Paul Foucault: A Critical Reader David Couzens Hoy (ed.) Power Steven Lukes (ed.) Power and the Division of Labour Dietrich Rueschemeyer Politics in the Semi-Periphery: Early Parliamentarism and Late Industrialisation in the Balkans and Latin America Nicos P. Mouzelis Disorganized Capitalism: Contemporary Transformations of Work and Politics Claus Offe Women, Work and Ideology in the Third World Haleh Afshar (ed.) Class and Gender in India: Women and their Organizations in a South Indian City Patricia Caplan Labour in British Society: an interpretative history Richard Price, Croom Helm Professional Powers: A study of the institutionalisation of formal knowledge Eliot Freidson Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations John Rex and David Mason (eds) Race and Ethnicity John Rex Racism and Recruitment: Managers, Organisations and Equal Opportunity in the Labour Market Richard Jenkins The Governance of Police Laurence Lustgarten Losing the fight against crime Richard Kinsey, John Lea and Jock Young Policing Prostitution: A Multi-Agency Approach Roger Matthews Policing and its Context 1750-1870 Clive Emsley Inside Schools: Ethnography in Educational Research Peter Woods, Routledge & Kegan Paul The Sexual Exploitation of Children Judith Ennew Mental Health and the Environment Hugh L. Freeman, (ed.) Sport, Power and Culture John Hargreaves Britain By Mass-Observation Tom Harrisson and Charles Madge     

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Books reviewed in this articles:
Immigration and the Work Force: Economic Consequences for the United States and Source Areas George J. Borjas and Richard B. Freeman, (eds)
Emotion in Organizations Stephen Fineman, (ed.)
Young People's Leisure and Lifestyles L.B. Hendry, J. Shucksmith, J.G. Love and A. Glendinning
Sex, Gay men and AIDS Peter M. Davies, Ford C.I. Hickson, Peter Weatherburn and Andrew J. Hunt
Essays on Women, Medicine and Health Ann Oakley
Sport in Social Development: Traditions, Transitions, and Transformations Alan G. Ingham and John W. Loy, (eds)
Constructing the Countryside Terry Marsden, Jonathan Murdoch, Philip Lowe, Richard Munton and Andrew Flynn
Reimagining the Nation Marjorie Ringrose and Adam J. Lerner, (eds)
Cultural Rights: Technology, Legality and Personality C. Lury
The Field of Cultural Production P. Bourdieu
Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays Gillian Rose
Emile Durkheim: Sociologist and Moralist Stephen J. Turner, (ed.)
Foucault and Feminism Lois McNay
Materialist Feminisms D. Landry and G. MacLean
Interpreting Qualitative Data: Methods for Analysing Talk, Text and Interaction David Silverman
Qualitative Data Analysis: A User-Friendly Guide for Social Scientists Ian Dey
Narrative Analysis Martin Cortazzi
Mozart: Portrait of a Genius N. Elias     

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Book reviewed in this article: Sociology in America: Herbert J. Gans, (ed.) Animals and Society: The Humanity of Animal Rights: Keith Tester Social Forms/Human Capacities: Essays in Authority and Differences Philip Corrigan Labour Process Theory: David Knights and Hugh Willmott (eds) Max Weber's Construction of Social Theory: Martin Albrow Bureaucratisation in Northwestern Europe, 1880–1985: Domination and Governance: Rolf Torstendahl Organisational Rules: A Framework for Understanding Organisational Action: Albert J. Mills and Stephen J. Murgatroyd Organisations in Society: Glenn Morgan The Mastery of Reason: Cognitive Development and the Production of Rationality: Valerie Walkerdine Postmodern Education: Politics, Culture and Social Criticism: S. Aronowitz and H. A. Giroux ‘Race’, Ethnicity and Education: Teaching and Learning in Multi-Ethnic Schools: David Gillborn, Unwin Hyman Japan's ‘International Youth’: The Emergence of a New Class of Schoolchildren: Roger Goodman The Sociology of the Health Service: Jonathan Gabe, Michael Calnan and Michael Bury (eds) Living in a Man-Made World: Gender Assumptions in Modern Housing Design: Marion Roberts Women and Industrialization: Gender at Work in Nineteenth Century England: J. Lown The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy: David Cannadine The Making of Modern France: Ideology, Politics and Culture: Emmanuel Todd, Basil Blackwell Culture and Politics in Northern Ireland 1960–1990: Eamonn Hughes, (ed.) Highland Games: The Making of the Myth: Grant Jarvie Before Novels: The Cultural Context of Eighteenth Century English Fiction: J. Paul Hunter, W. W. Norton Writing Sites: Jon Stratton, Harvester-Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead The Ethnographic Imagination: Textual Constructions of Reality: Paul Atkinson Life and Work History Analyses: Qualitative and Quantitative Developments: Shirley Dex (ed.) A Sort of Clowning: Life and Times 1940–1959: Richard Hoggart     

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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 reviewed in this article: Work, Urbanism and Inequality by Philip Abrams, (ed.) Arguments Within English Marxism by Perry Anderson The Future with Microelectronics: Forecasting the Effects of Information Technology by Iann Barren and Ray Curnow Kings or People—Power and the Mandate to Rule by Reinhard Bendix Industrial Conflict in Modern Britain by James E. Cronin The Double Standard: A Feminist Critique of Feminist Social Science by Margrit Eichler Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek and Time by Herbert J. Gans Words and Things by Ernest Gellner Central Problems in Sociological Theory: Action, Structure ard Contradiction in Social Analysis by Anthony Giddens Population and Development: High and Low Fertility in Poorer Countries by Geoffrey Hawthorn (ed.) Elites in Australia by John Higley et al On Law and Ideology by Paul Hirst Praxis and Method: A Sociological Dialogue with Lukács, Gramsci and the Early Frankfurt School by Richard Kilminster The Technical Intelligentsia and the Soviet State by Nicholas Lampert Statistical Demography by Roland Pressat, translated and adapted from the French by Damien A. Courtney. Work Organisations: Resistance and Control by Graeme Salaman The Fate of the Anglican Clergy by Robert Towler and A. P. M Coxen. Between Labour and Capital by Pat Walker (ed.) Power: Its Forms, Bases and Uses by Dennis H. Wrong Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes     

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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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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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Book reviewed in this article: James S. Frideres (ed.), A World of Communities: Participative Research Perspectives. Roderic Beaujot, Population change in Canada. The challenges of policy adaptation. With a foreword by Monica Boyd. Sing C. Chew, Logs for Capital: The Timber Industry and Capitalist Enterprise in the Nineteenth Century. Robert Silverman and Leslie Kennedy, Deadly Deeds: Murder in Canada. C. David Naylor (ed.), Canadian Health Care and the State. A Century of Evolution. Anthony Giddens, Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991, pp. 256, paper AND The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies. Elliot Leyton, William O'Grady and James Overton, Violence and Public Anxiety: A Canadian Case. Stanley N. Kurtz, All the Mothers are One: Hindu India and the Cultural Reshaping of Psychoanalysis. Marilyn Silverman and P.H. Gulliver (eds.), Approaching the Past: Historical Anthropology Through Irish Case Studies. Don Kulick, Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction: Socialization, Self, and Syncretism in a Papua New Guinean Village. Olga F. Linares, Power, Prayer and Production: The Jola of Casamance, Senegal. Terry Garvin, Bush Land People. Edited by Michael Robinson. Joan Smith and Immanuel Wallerstein (co-ordinators), Creating and Transforming Households: The Constraints of the World-economy. Lila Abu-Lughod, Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories. James L. Giblin, The Politics of Environmental Control in Northeastern Tanzania, 1840–1940. Bob Russell, Back to Work? Labour, State and Industrial Relations in Canada. Robert J. Brym, William Shaffir and Morton Weinfeld (eds.), The Jews in Canada. Nico Stehr and Richard V. Ericson (eds.), The Culture of Power and Known edge: Inquiries into Contemporary Societies.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Debates in Sociology: David Morgan and Liz Stanley (eds) The Ethics of Social Research: Roger Homan The Politics of Truth: from Marx to Foucault: Michèle Barrett Derrida: A Critical Reader: David Wood (ed.) Baudrillard's Bestiary: Baudrillard and Culture: Mike Gane The Two Sovereigns: Social Contradictions of European Modernity: Keith Tester Narrating Our Pasts: The Social Construction of Oral History: E. Tonkin Other Histories: Kirsten Hastrup (ed.) Introducing Women's Studies: Feminist Theory and Practice: Diane Richardson and Victoria Robinson (eds) Gender and Bureaucracy: M. Savage and A. Witz, (eds) Women's Employment and the Capitalist Family: Ben Fine Of Mice and Women: Aspects of Female Aggression: Kaj Bjordkqvist and Pirkko Niemela (eds) Men In the Public Eye: Jeff Hearn Discovering Men: David Morgan Body Matters: Essays on the Sociology of the Body: Sue Scott and David Morgan, (eds) Youth and Inequality: Inge Bates and George Riseborough, (eds) Down On Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People: David A. Snow and Leon Anderson Race, the City, and the State: Malcolm Cross and Michael Keith, (eds) Symbolic Interactionism and Cultural Studies: The Politics of Interpretation: Norman K. Denzin From Class Structure to the Politics of Pleasure; The Effects of Gramscianism on Cultural Studies: David Harris The Sports Process; A Comparative and Developmental Approach: E. Dunning, J. Maguire and R. Pearton (eds)     

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Book Reviewed in this article Sociology in Action: A Critique of Selected Conceptions of the Social Role of the Sociologist by Christopher G. A. Bryant The Sociology of Leisure by Stanley Parker New Directions in Sociology by David C. Thorns (ed.) The Use of Models in the Social Sciences by Lyndhurst Collins (ed.) Escape Attempts: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Every-day Life by Stanley Cohen and Laurie Taylor Language, Schools and Classrooms by Michael Stubbs Elements of Sampling by V. Bamett Deciphering Data by J. Silvey Experiments in the Social Sciences by G. Brown, D. H. Cherrington and L. Cohen A Critical Introduction to Organisation Theory by Bruno Lussato Roscher and Knies: The Logical Problems of Historical Econotmcs by Max Weber (translated with an Introduction by Guy Oakes) The Organisation and Impact of Social Research by Marten Shiptnan (ed.) Introduction to Empirical Sociology by R. Mayntz, K. Holm and P. Hoebner Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 7 & 8 by T. Jefferson (ed.) The Labour Party and the Working Class by Tom Forester Gambling, Work and Leisure by D. M. Dowries, B. P. Davies, M. E. David and P. Stone The Latin American Peasant by Andrew Pearse Economic Calculation and Forms of Property by Charles Bettelheim Class, Race and Gold by Frederick A. Johnstone Value jor Money in Health Services by Brian Abel-Smith The Comparative Study of Political Elites by Robert D. Putnam Language in Culture and Class: The Sociology of Language and Education by A. D. Edwards     

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Book reviewed in this article: Social Theory and Modern Sociology Anthony Giddens A Reconstruction of Historical Materialism Jorge Larrain Place, Practice and Structure: Social and Spatial Transformations in Southern Sweden: 1750–1850 Allan Pred New Forms of Democracy David Held and Christopher Pollitt, (eds) Women and European Politics Joni Lovenduski Women of Europe Elizabeth Vallance and Elizabeth Davies Becoming a Feminist: The Social Origins of First Wave Feminism Olive Banks Justice for Women? Family, Court and Social Control Mary Eaton Women, Violence and Social Control Jalna Hammer and Mary Maynard The British Worker Question: A New Look at Workers and Productivity in Manufacturing Theo Nichols Routledge & Kegan Paul. The Enemy Within: Pit Villages and the Miners' Strike of 1984–5 R. Samuel, B. Bloomfield and G. Boanas (eds) Thurcroft: a Village and the Miners' Strike The Miners' Strike 1984-5: Loss without Limit M. Adeney and J. Lloyd German White-Collar Workers and the Rise of Hitler Hans Speier Democracy and Control in the Workplace Ed Davis and Russell Lansbury Towards a New Industrial Democracy: Workers' Participation in Industry Michael Poole, Routledge & Kegan Paul Unemployment: Personal and Social Consequences Stephen Fineman (ed.) Unions, Unemployment and Innovation Eric Batstone and Stephen Gourlay Public Acceptance of New Technologies. An International Review Roger Williams and Stephen Mills (eds) Education for Some: The Educational and Vocational Experiences of 15–18 Year Old Members of Minority Ethnic Origins John Eggleston, David Dunn, Mahdu Anjali The Power of Psychiatry Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose (eds) Love as Passion: the Codification of Intimacy Niklas Luhmann Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning All Work and No Play? The Sociology of Women and Leisure Rosemary Deem The Pub and the People A Worktown Study by Mass Observation Ageing and Social Policy C. Phillipson and A. Walker (eds)     

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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: The Origins of European Through about the Body, the Mind, and the Soul, the World, Time and Fate R. B. Onians The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity Jürgen Habermas An Introductory Guide to Post-Structuralism and Postmodernism Madan Sarup On Social Fuels Margaret Gilbert. Social Anthropology: An Alternative Introduction Angela P Cheater Keynesianism. Monetarism and the Crisis of the State Simon Clarke The Capitalist Class T- Bottomore and R. J. Brym. (eds) Knowledgeable Women: Structuralism and the Reproduction of Elites Sara Delamont Whose Justice? Which Rationality?. A. Maclntyre Social Anthropology and Public Policy in Northern Ireland Hasting Donnan and Graham McFarlane. (eds). Whose Justice? Which Rationality? A. Maclntyre Against Criminology Stanley Cohen Regulating Fraud: White-Collar Crime and the Criminal Process M. Levi Negotiating Control: A Study of News Sources R. V Ericson, Patricia M. Baranek and Janet B. L. Chan Changing Patterns of European Eamily Eife: A. Comparative Analysis of Eourteen European Countries K. Boh, M. Bak, M. Pankratova, J. Ovortrup, G. B. Sgritta and K. Waerness, (eds) Family Planning and Population Control: The Challenges of a Successful Movement Kurt W Back Full Circle? Bringing up Children in the Post-Permissive Society Digby Anderson, (ed.). Raymond Williams: Writing, Culture, Politics Alan O'Connor Social Semiotics Robert Hodge and Gunther Kress Picturing Power: Visual Depictions and Social Relations Gordon Fyfe and John Law, (eds.) The Museum Time Machine: Puttmg Cultures on Display Robert Lumley, (ed) The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century Walter Benn Michaels Literary Methods and Sociological Theory: Case Studies of Simmel and Weber Bryan S. Green     

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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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Books reviewed in this article:
A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England , Steven Shapin
The Sight of Sound: Music, Representation, and the History of the Body Richard Leppert
The Authority of the Consumer Russell Keat, Nigel Whiteley and Nicholas Abercrombie (eds)
Space, Place and Gender Doreen Massey
Ecological Feminism Karren J. Warren (ed.)
Gendered Work: Sexuality, Family and the Labour Market Lisa Adkins
The Social and Political Economy of the Household Michael Anderson, Frank Bechofer and Jonathan Gershuny, (eds)
Privatization and Popular Capitalism Peter Saunders and Colin Harris
Educational Reform: A Critical and Post-Structural Approach Stephen J. Ball
Gendered Education: Sociological Reflections on Women, Teaching and Feminism Sandra Acker
The Importance of Disappointment Ian Craib
Sport and Leisure in Social Thought G. Jarvie and J. Maguire
The Sociology of Religion. Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives Malcolm B. Hamilton
Raymond Williams: Making Connections John Eldridge and Lizzie Eldridge
Postmodernism and Social Inquiry David R. Dickens and Andrea Fontana, (eds)
The Poverty of Postmodernism John O'Neill
Insight and Solidarity. The Discourse Ethics of Jürgen Habermas William Rehg