Book Reviews

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.)     

Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus

Book reviewed in this article: KAY ALMERE READ, Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos. DARA CULHANE, The Pleasure of the Crown: Anthropology, Law and First Nations. JOHN D. EARLY and THOMAS N. HEADLAND, Population Dynamics of a Philippine Rain Forest People: The San Ildefonso Agta. JOHN EDWARDS (ed.), Language in Canada. JANET L. FINN, Tracing the Veins. Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata. GRAHAM HARVEY, Contemporary Paganism: Listening People, Speaking Earth. JOANNE PEARSON and RICHARD ROBERTS with GEOFFREY SAMUEL, Nature Religion Today: Paganism in the Modern World. JENNIFER KELLY, Under the Gaze: Learning to Be Black in White Society. GARY KINSMAN, The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities. EDGAR-ANDRÉ MONTIGNY, Foisted upon the Government? State Responsibilities, Family Obligations and the Care of the Dependent Aged in Late Nineteenth-century Ontario. BOB MULLALY, Structural Social Work: Ideology, Theory, and Practice. LYNN RAPAPORT, Jews in Germany after the Holocaust: Memory, Identity, and Jewish-German Relations. JONATHAN SALISBURY and DAVID JACKSON, Challenging Macho Values: Practical Ways of Working with Adolescent Boys. WOLFGANG SCHLUCHTER, Paradoxes of Modernity. THOMAS SCHWEIZER and DOUGLAS R. WHITE (eds.), Kinship, Networks, and Exchange PAUL M. SNIDERMAN, JOSEPH F. FLETCHER, PETER H. RUSSELL and PHILIP E. TETLOCK, The Clash of Rights: Liberty, Equality and Legitimacy in Pluralist Democracy.     

Book Reviews

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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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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Books reviewed in this articles: New Strategies in Social research: An Introduction and Guide Derek Layder Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity Ulrich Beck Max Weber and the Sociology of Culture Ralph Schroeder Georg Lukács: Life, Thought and Politics A. Kadarkay Aesthetics and The Sociology of Art (2nd edition), Janet Wolff Writing Chicago: Modernism, Ethnography and the Novel Carla Cappetti The Decline of Community in Zinacantán: Economy, Public Life, and Social Stratification, 1960–1987 Frank Cancian The New Politics of Class: Social Movements and Cultural Dynamics in Advanced Societies Klaus Eder Growing up in a Classless Society? School to Work Transitions Andy Furlong Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School Barrie Thorne Parents, Gender and Education Reform Miriam E. David Racism and Education: Research Perspectives Barry Troyna Not Easy Being British: Colour, Culture and Citizenship Tariq Modood The Power to Manage? Employers and Industrial Relations in Comparative-Historical Perspective Steven Tolliday and Jonathan Zeitlin, (eds) Attending To Work: The Management of Attendance and Shopfloor Order Paul Edwards and Colin Whitson Talk at Work: Interaction in Institutional Settings Paul Drew and John Heritage, (eds) Self Disclosure V. Derlega, Sandra Metts, Sandra Petrionio and Stephen Margulis Getting The Message: News, Truth and Power J. Eldridge, (ed.) Time, Health and Medicine Ronald Frankenberg, (ed.) The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Ageing in America Thomas R. Cole     

Books Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: The Social Science Encyclopedia Adam Kuper and Jessica Kuper (eds), Routledge & Kegan Paul The Principle of Hope Ernst Bloch, 3 volumes, translated by Neville Plaice, Stephen Plaice and Paul Knight Fragments of Modernity David Frisby Habermas and the Foundations of Critical Theory Rick Roderick, Macmillan Subordination: Feminism and Social Theory C. Burton, Allen and Unwin Marxism and International Relations Vendulka Kubálková and Albert Cruickshank Powers of Theory: Capitalism, the State, and Democracy Robert R. Alford and Roger Fdedland The Ideology of the New Right Ruth Levitas (ed.) Ideology David McLellan Explanation in Social History Christopher Lloyd, Basil Blackwell Writing Marxist History, British Society, Economy and Culture Since 1700 R.S. Neale Capitalism and Leisure Theory Chris Rojek, Tavistock The Devil Makes Work: Leisure in Capitalist Britain John Clarke and Chas All Manners of Food, Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the Present Stephen Mennell, Basil Blackweil Social Mobility in the 19th and 20th Centuries Networks of Corporate Power: A Comparative Analysis of Ten Countries Frans N. Stokman, Rolf Ziegler and John Scott (eds) The Power Structure of American Business Beth Mintz and Michael Schwartz Just Managing: Authority and Democracy in Industry Peter Cressey, John Eldridge and John McInnes Men In Families Robert A. Lewis and Robert E. Salt (eds) Private Schools and Public Issues. The Parents’View Irene Fox Life in public Schools Geoffrey Walford Growing Up at the Margins: Young Adults in the North East Frank Coffield, Coral Borrill and Sarah Marshall The Dynamics of Aggression in Women's Prisons in England Alexandra Madaraka-Sheppard War and Peace News New Communications Technologies and the Public Interest Marjorie Ferguson (ed.) Computers and Qualitative Data Peter Conrad and Shulamit Reinharz (eds)     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Young at Eighty: The Prolific Public Life of Michael Young Geoff Dench, Tony Flower and Kate Davron (eds), Psychosocial Disorders in Young People: Time Trends and their Causes Michael Rutter and David J. Smith, (eds), Gender and the Professional Predicament of Nursing Celia Davies, A National Health Service? The Restructuring of Health Care in Britain since 1979 John Mohan, Drugs and Narcotics in History R. Porter and M. Teich (eds), Invented Moralities: Sexual Values in an Age of Uncertainty Jeffrey Weeks, Childhood and Parenthood: Proceedings of the International Sociological Association Committee for Family Research Conference Julia Brannen and Margaret O'Brien, (eds). Changing Ethnic Identities Tariq Modood, Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies Kobena Mercer, The Urban Context: Ethnicity, Social Networks and Situational Analysis Alisdair Rogers and Steven Vertovec (eds), Acknowledging Consumption: A Review of New Studies Daniel Miller, (ed.), The Sociology of the Meal Roy C. Wood, Interrogating Inequality: Essays on Class Analysis, Socialism and Marxism Erik Olin Wright, Bataille: Writing the Sacred Carolyn Bailey-Gill, (ed.), The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics T. Bennett, Disney and his Worlds Alan Bryman, Mapping the Subject: Geographies of Cultural Transformation Steve Pile and Nigel Thrift, (eds), Border Approaches: Anthropological Perspectives on Frontiers H. Donnan and T.M. Wilson (eds).     

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Book reviewed in this article: Images of Aging: Cultural Representations of Later Life M. Featherstone and A. Wernick (eds), Inequality and Old Age John A. Vincent, Disciplining Old Age: The Formation of Gerontological Knowledge Stephen Katz, Children, Health and the Social Order Berry Mayall, Family Connections: An Introduction to Family Studies David H.J. Morgan, Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women Anne Balsamo, Marx, Durkheim, Weber: Formations of Modern Social Thought K. Morrison Sage, Sociological Theory. What went Wrong? Diagnosis and Remedies Nicos Mouzelis, Culture, Modernity and Revolution. Essays in Honour of Zygmunt Bauman Richard Kilminster and Ian Varcoe (eds), Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy J. Habermas, Culture and the Public Sphere Jim McGuigan, Challenging Codes: Collective Action in the Information Age Alberto Melucci, Sociology, Environmentalism, Globalization: Reinventing the Globe Steven Yearley, The New Age Movement Paul Heelas, The Problem of Nature: Environment, Culture and European Expansion David Arnold, The Meaning of Race, Race, History and Culture in Western Society Kenan Malik,     

Book Reviews

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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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     

Book reviews are indexed in the Book Review Index

Books Reviewed in this Article: Patrons and Clients by Ernest Gellner and John Waterbury (eds.). Power and Illness: The Political Sociology of Health and Medical Care by Elliott A, Krause. Profane Culture by Paul Willis. Class and Class Structure by Alan Hunt (ed.). The Rise and Fall of Professionalism: A Sociological Analysis by Magali Sarfatti Larson. The British Right: Conservative and Right Wing Politics in Britain by Neill Nugent and Roger King (eds.). Self-Care in Health by John D. Williamson and Kate Danaher. Work, Culture and Society in Industrialising America: Essays in American Working Class and Social History by Herbert G. Gutman. Sociological Research Methods: An Introduction by Martin Bulmer (ed.). Working Couples by Rhona Rapoport and Robert Rapoport (eds.), with Janice Bumstead. Immigrants and Minorities in British Society by Colin Holmes (ed.). Distribution of Personal Wealth in Britain by A. B. Atkinson and A. J. Harrison. R. D. Laing: His Work and its Relevance for Sociology by Martin Howarth-Williams. Interests and the Growth of Knowledge by Barry Barnes. The Victorian Family by Anthony S. Wohl (ed.). Rural Catalonia under the Franco Regime. The Fate of Regional Culture Since the Spanish Civil War by Edward C. Hansen. The Ideology of Work by P. D. Anthony. Class Conflict and the Industrial Relations Crisis by Colin Crouch. Worker Participation in Europe by J. R. Carby-Hall. Police Work: The Social Organisation of Policing by Peter K. Manning. Real and Imagined Worlds; The Novel and Social Science by Morroe Berger. Low Incomes: Evidence to the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth by The Supplementary Benefits Commission. The Soviet Agrarian Debate–A Controversy in Social Science, 1923–1929 by Susan Gross Solomon.     

Book Reviews

Knowledge, Ideology and Discourse: A Sociological Perspective Tim Dent Heterology and the Postmodern: Julian Pefanis A Sociology of Monsters: Essays on Power, Technology and Domination: John Law, (ed.) Max Weber: from History to Modernity: Bryan S. Turner Erving Goffman: Tom Burns Ethnomethodology and the Human Sciences: Graham Button (ed.) Family and the State of Theory: David Cheal Families and Households: Divisions and Change: C. Marsh and S. Arber, (eds) The British Population: Patterns, Trends and Processes: David Coleman and John Salt Eugenics, Human Genetics and Human Failings: The Eugenics Society, Its Sources and Its Critics in Britain: Pauline M. H. Mazumdar Towards a New Sociology of Social Work: Roger Sibeon Corporate Society: Class, Property and Contemporary Capitalism: J. McDermott Deconstructing America: Representations of the Other: Peter Mason Unwrapping Japan: Society and Culture in Anthropological Perspective: E. Ben-Ari, B. Moeran, and J. Valentine (eds) Enterprise and Heritage: Crosscurrents of National Culture: John Corner and Sylvia Harvey (eds) In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity: Frank Krutnik Fieldwork in Educational Settings: Methods. Pitfalls and Perspectives: S. Delamont     

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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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Gregory Guy, Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh (eds.). Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in Honor of William Labov .
Anna Duszak. Culture and Styles of Academic Discourse .
Barbara Johnstone. The Linguistic Individual: Self-expression in Language and Linguistics .
Alessandro Duranti. Linguistic Anthropology . William A. Foley. Anthropological Linguistics: An Introduction .     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Consequences of Modernity Anthony Giddens Against Postmodernism: A Marxist Critique A. Callinicos Reactions to the Right Barry Hindess (ed.) The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context Mark Poster Media Theory: An Introduction F. Inglis Comic Visions: Television Comedy and American Culture David Marc, Unwin Hyman On Record: Rock, Pop and the Written Word Simon Frith and Andrew Goodwin (eds) The Tourist Gaze: Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies John Urry Interpreting the Past, Understanding the Present Stephen Kendrick, Pat Straw and David McCrone, (eds) Hard Lessons: The Lives and Education of Working-class Women in Nineteenth-Century England June Purvis New Professions, Old Order: Engineers und German Society 1815–1914 Kees Gispen We are not French! Language, Culture and Identity in Brittany M. MacDonald After 200 Years. Photographic Essays of Aboriginal and Islander Australia Today Penny Taylor (ed.), for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies Home Ownership: Differentiation and Fragmentation Ray Forrest, Alan Murie and Peter Williams, Unwin Hyman Property and Power in a City: The Sociological Significance of Landlordism. D. McCrone and B. Elliott Women, Poverty and Ideology in Asia: Contradictory Pressures, Uneasy Resolutions Haleh Afshar and Bina Agarwal, (eds) Women, Food and Families Nicki Charles and Marion Kerr Child Labour Alec Fyfe Unmasking Masculinity David Jackson, Unwin Hyman O Lorna!; Constituting a Self (1977–1984) Kurt H. Wolff     

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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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Book reviewed in this article: Postmodern Ethics: Zygmunt Bauman Baroque Reason: The Aesthetics of Modernity: Christine Buci-Glucksmann translated by Patrick Damiller Foucault's New Domains: Mike Gane and Terry Johnson (eds) Sociology in Question: Pierre Bourdieu, trans. Richard Nice Max Weber's Comparative Historical Sociology: S. Kalberg. Psychoanalytic Theory: An Introduction: Anthony Elliott The Art of Conversation: Peter Burke Understanding Social Theory: Derek Layder Motherhood and Modernity: An Investigation into the Rational Dimension of Mothering: Christine Everingham Friendly Relations? Mothers and their daughters-in-law: P. Cotterill, Taylor-Francis Single Women: On the Margins?: Tuula Gordon, Macmillan, Basingstoke Erotics and Politics: Gay Male Sexuality, Masculinity and Feminism: Tim Edwards Understanding Poverty: P. Alcock, Macmillan, Basingstoke Social Change and the Experience of Unemployment: Duncan Gallie, et al. (eds) Dangerous Classes: The Underclass and Social Citizenship: Lydia Morris Masters and Servants: Class and Patronage in the Making of a Labour Organisation: Huw Beynon and Terry Austrin Inside European Identities: Ethnography in Western Europe Sharon Macdonald, (ed.) Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR 1923–34: George O. Liber Football, Violence and Social Identity: Richard Giulianotti, Norman Bonney and Mike Hepworth (eds) Natural Relations. Ecology, Animal Rights and Social Justice: Ted Benton, Verso The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain 1700–1900: Andrew Scull Time and Money: The Making of Consumer Culture: Gary Cross     

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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     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Public Accountability and the Schooling System: A Sociology of School Board Democracy by William Bacon The Alternative in Eastern Europe by Rudolph Bahro (translated by David Fernbach A Sociology of Industrialisation: An Introduction by David Brown and Michael J. Harrison Farm Life m Northeast Scotland, 1840–1914: The Poor Man's Country by Ian Carter. Pp. xiv + 258, John Donald Computer Models in the Social Sciences by R. B. Coats and A. Parkin Deviant Interpretations by David Downes and Paul Rock (eds.) Poverty and Social Change by Kirsten Grobjerg, David Street and Gerald D. Suttles Main Currents of Marxism by Leszek Kolakowski (translated by P. S. Falla Class and Status in France: Economic Change and Social Immobility Ideology and the Labour Movement by David E. Martin and David Rubinstein (eds.) Property, Paternalism and Power: Class and Control in Rural England by Howard Newby, Colin Bell, David Rose and Peter Saunders The Making of Symbolic Interactionism by Paul Rock Land, Labour and Economic Discourse by Keith Tribe     

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Books reviewed in this articles:
Economies of Signs & Space Scott Lash and John Urry
Postmodernity USA: The Crisis of Social Modernism in Postwar America Anthony Woodiwiss
Organizing Modernity John Law
Postmodernism, Reason and Religion E. Gellner
The adventure of difference Gianni Vattimo
Ways of Escape: Modern Transformations in Leisure and Travel Chris Rojek
Relocating Cultural Studies: developments in theory and research Valda Blundell
Deconstructing Durkheim: A post-post-structuralist critique Jennifer Lehmann
The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theories and Political Significance Rolf Wiggershaus
The European and American University Since 1800, Historical and Sociological Studies Sheldon Rothblatt and Bjorn Wittrock (eds)
Fields of Knowledge, French Academic Culture in Comparative Perspective 1890–1920 Fritz Ringer
The Body and Social Theory
The Sociology of Death: Theory, Culture, Practice David Clark, (ed.)
Researching Women's Lives from a Feminist Perspective Mary Maynard and June Purvis, (eds)
Childhood Identities: Self and Social Relationships in the Experience of the Child Allison James
Fathers and Daughters Sue Sharpe
Racialised Boundaries: Race, Nation, Gender, Colour and Class and the Anti-racist Struggle Floya Anthias and Nira Yuval-Davis
The Ghetto Underclass: Social Science Perspectives W. J. Wilson (ed.)
The Corporate Paradox: Power and Control in the Business Franchise A. Felstead
The Factory and The City: The Story of the Cowley Automobile Workers in Oxford Teresa Hayter and David Harvey (eds)
The Politics of Social Policy M. Sullivan, Harvester Wheat Sheaf
The Eclipse of Council Housing Ian Cole and Robert Furbey
The Road from Paradise: Prospects for Democracy in Eastern Europe Stjepan G. Medtrović with Miroslav Goreta and Slaven Letica
Introducing Statistics for Social Research D. Cramer