Book reviews

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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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

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     

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)     

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Profiles and Critiques in Social Theory Anthony Giddens Critical Hermeneutics John B. Thompson Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences Paul Ricoeur (edited and translated by John B. Thompson) Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition Saul A. Kripke. Social Inequality: Comparative and Developmental Approaches Ed. Gerald Berreman with the assistance of Kathleen M Zaretsky. Rethinking Social Inequality D. Robbins et al. (eds). Documents of Life: An Introduction to the Problems and Literature of a Humanistic Method Ken Plummer. The Anti-Social Family Michele Barrett and Mary Mclntosh. The Father Figure Ed Lorna McKee and Margaret O'Brien (eds). Mothers and Fathers: A Study of the Development and Negotiation of Parental Behaviour Kadiryn C. Backen. Capitalism and the Construction of Old Age Chris Phillipson. Ovmer Occupation in Britain Stephen Merren with Fred Gray. Routledge & Kegan Pkul Ethnic Segregation in Cities C Peach, V. Robinson and S. Smith (eds), Croom Helm The Police: Autonomy and Consent M. Brogden. The New International Division of Labour Folker Frobel, Jurgen Heinrichs and Otto Kreye. The Political Economy of Underdevelopment Amiya Kumar Bagchi. Cheats at Work Gerald Mars. The Sociology of Food and Eating Anne Murcott(ed). The Fabrication of Virtue: English Prison Architecture 1750–1840 Robin Evans.     

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The Book reviews in this article. A Rationalist Methodology for the Social Sciences David Sylvan and Barry Glassner Positivism in Social Theory and Research Christopher G.A. Brynt, Macmillan Wittgenstein: A Social Theory of Knowledge D. Bloor, Macmillan Marxism and Historical Writing paul Q. Hirst, Routledge & Kegan Paul Bribes J.T. Noonan. Jr. Collier-Macmillan Ambition and Privilege. The Social Tropes of Elizabethan Courtesy Theory. Frank Whigham Big Structures, Large processes, Huge Comparisons Charles Tilly The idea of the Modern State Gregor McLennan. David Held and Stuart Hall (eds). Visions of Social Control Stanley Cohen Polity Press. Controlling the Constable: Police Accountability in England and Wales Tony Jefferson and Roger Grimhaw, Fredrick Muller. Criminal Women Pat Carlen Diana Christina. Jenny Hicks, Josie O'Dwyer and Chris Tehaikovsky. Capitalism, Consumption and Needs Edmond Preteceille and Jean-Peirre Terrail. Social Classes in Marxist Theory Allen Cottrell, Routledge & Kegan Paul Social Inequality and Class Radicalism in France and Britain Duncan Gallie Les Dirigeants paysans Sylvain Maresea. Poor Britain Joanna Mack and Stewart Lansley, Allen & Unwin Women in England 1870-1950: Sexual Divisions and Social Change Jane Lewis. Wheatsheaf Bools The incorporated Wife Hilary Callan and Shirley Ardener (eds.) Gender and Generation Angela McRobbie and Mica Nava (eds.) Cinema and Technology: Image, Sound, Colour Steve Neale     

From Sex Roles to Patriarchy: Recent Developments in the Sociology of Women—A Review Essay*

Bernard, Jessie. 1981. The Female World. New York: Free Press. Epstein, Cynthia Fuchs. 1981. Women in Law. New York: Basic Books. Leghorn, Lisa, and Katherine Parker. 1981. Women's Worth: Sexual Economics and the World of Women. Boston: Routlodgo and Kcgan Paul. Lovenduski, Joni, and Jill Hills, eds. 1981. The Politics of the Second Electorate: Women and Public Participation. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Sokoloff, Natalie J. 1980. Between Money and Love: The Dialectics of Women's Home and Market Work. New York: Praeger Publishers. Weitzman, Lenore J. 1981. The Marriage Contract: Spouses, Lovers, and the Law. New York: Free Press.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Environmental Sociology: Kroll -Smith , J. Stephen , and Stephen Robert Couch . The Real Disaster Is Above Ground: A Mine Fire and Social Conflict. Environmental Sociology: Couch , Stephen R., and J. Steven Kroll -Smith (eds.). Environmental Sociology: Dunlap , Riley E., and Angela G. Mertig (eds.). Environmental Sociology: Faber , Daniel . Environment Under Fire: Imperialism and the Ecological Crisis in Central America. Agriculture: Browne , William P., Jerry R. Skees , Louis E. Swanson , Paul B. Thompson , and Laurian J. Unnevehr . Sacred Cows and Hot Potatoes: Agrarian Myths in Agricultural Policy. Agriculture: Maret , Elizabeth . Women of the Range: Women's Roles in the Texas Beef Cattle Industry. Agriculture: Dvorak , Karen Ann (ed.). Social Science Research for Agricultural Technology Development: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions. Chinese Studies: Kelliher , Daniel . Peasant Power in China: The Era of Rural Reform, 1979–1989. Chinese Studies: Poston , Dudley L., and David Yaukey (eds.). Rural Health: Snow , Loudell . Walkin' Over Medicine. Rural Health: Morsy , Soheir A. Gender, Sickness, and Healing in Rural Egypt: Ethnography in Historical Context.     

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Abstract

Human Services at Risk: Administrative Strategies for Survival , edited by Felice Davidson Permutter. Boston, MA: Lexington Books, D.C. Heath and Company, 1984. Reviewed by Mona Struhsaker Schatz

Supervising Student Internships in Human Services , edited by Carlton E. Munson. New York: The Haworth Press, 1984. Reviewed by Harvey Bertcher

Transactional Analysis for Social Workers and Counsellors: An Introduction , by Elizabeth Pitman. London and Boston: Library of Social Work, Routhledge and Kegan Paul, 1984. Reviewed by Edward G. Kuhlmann

Ages in Conflict: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Inequality Between Old and Young , by Nancy Foner. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. Reviewed by Bruce A. Thyer

Clinical Social Work in Health Settings , by Thomas Owen Carlton. New York: Springer Publishing Co., 1984. Reviewed by John R. Ball     

Book reviews: Desire: The politics of sexuality

Abstract

Snitow, Ann and Stansell, Christine and Thompson, Sharon. Virago, 1984. £6.50. (Reviewed by Elizabeth A. Smith)

Research Highlights: No.6 Working with Children

Department of Social Work, Aberdeen. £4.50. (Reviewed by Elizabeth A. Smith)

An Introduction to Therapeutic Communities

Kennard, David and Roberts, Jeff. Routledge and Kegan Paul. £5.95 Paperback. (Reviewed by Pauline Cunningham)     

Book reviews

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: 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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Book review in this article Liberalism and the Origins of European Social Theory Steven Seidman, Basil Blackwell. Not in our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature S. Rose, L.J. Kamin and R.C. Lewontin, Pelican, Harmondsworh. Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukcés to Habermas Martin Jay. Adorno Martin Jay, Fontana, London. Humanist Marxism and Wittgensteinian Social Philosophy Susan M. Easton. Daia Construction in Social Surveys Nicholas Bateson, George Allen and Unwin, Hemel Hempstead. The Three Worlds Peter Worsley, Weidenfeld and Nieolson. Lenin and the End of Politics A.J. Polan, Methuen. Great Revolutions Compared: The Search for a Theory Jarosalv Krej?í assisted by Anna Krej?ová. The Nature of Work: An Introduction to Debates on the Labour Process Paul Thompson, Macmillan. Ethnic Communities in Business Robin Ward and Richard Jenkins (eds). Industrial Relations in the Future: Trends and Possibilities in Britain over the Next Decade M. Poole, W. Brown, J. Rubery, K. Sisson, R. Tarling and F. Wilkinson, Routledge & Kegan Paul. Education Versus Qualifications? A Study of Relationships Between Education, Selection for Employment and the Productivity of Labour John Oxenham (ed.), George Allen and Unwin. The End of Law? Timothy O'Hagan, Basil Blackwell Contradictions of the Welfare State Claus Offe, edited by John Keane, Hutchinson Scotland: The Real Divide, Poverty and Deprivation in Scotland Gordon Brown and Robin Cook (eds). Against Equality: Readings on Economic and Social Policy William Letwin (ed.), Macmillan. The Idea of Natural Inequality and Other Essays André Béteille. Divisions of Labour R. E. Pahl, Basil Blaekwell. Households Richard McC. Netting, Robert R Wilk and Erie J. Arnould (eds). Identity and Stability in Marriage Janet Askham. Berger, P. and Kellner, H, (1964)‘Marriage and the construction of reality’, Diogenes. Dominian, J. (1968), Marital Breakdown, Penguin, Harmondsworth The Bungalow: The Production of a Global Culture Anthony D. King, Routledge & Kegan Paul. Opening Pandora's Box G. Nigel Gilbert and Michael Mulkay Our Masters’Voices Max Atkinson, Methuen Life is like a Chicken Coop Ladder: A Portrait of German Culture Through Folklore Alan Dundes.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Learning How to Ask, Charles L. Briggs Research Interviewing, Elliot G. Mishler Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society, Bruno Latour Freedom, Equality and the Market: Arguments on Social Policy Barry Hindess Cities, Capitalism and Civilisation, R.J. Holton The Sociology of War and Peace, C. Creighton and M. Shaw (eds) Confronting Crime, R. Matthews and J. Young eds Images of Social Stratification: Occupational Structures and Class, A.P.M. Coxon and P.M. Davies with C.L. Jones Women and Poverty in Britain, Caroline Glendinning and Jane Millar (eds) White Collar Workers: trade unions and class, Peter Armstrong, Bob Carter, Chris Smith, and Theo Nichols Democracy at Work, Tom Schuller Power and Powerlessness in Industry: An Analysis of the Social Relations of Production Rosemary Harris Grey Dawn Breaking: British Merchant Seafarers in the Late Twentieth Century, Tony Lane The Automobile Industry and its Workers: Between Fordism and Flexibility, Steven Tolliday and Jonathan Zeitlin (eds) Inside the Secondary Classroom Sara Delamont and Maurice Galton Sexuality Jeffrey Weeks Sexual Contradictions: Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Feminism, Janet Sayers Reassessing Fatherhood, Charlie Lewis and Margaret O'Brien (eds). Social Change and the Life Course Gaynor Cohen (ed.) The Thorn in the Chrysanthemum, Mamoru Iga     

Essay in review

Ceri Peach, Vaughan Robinson and Susan Smith (eds.), Ethnic Segregation in Cities. (London, Croom Helm, 1981). Pp.258. £12.95.

Peter Ratcliffe, Racism and Reaction: A Profile of Handsworth. (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981). Pp.xvi + 388. £12.50.     

Book reviews

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     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Modelling the World: The Social Constructions of Systems Analysis Brian P. Bloomfield. Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity S. Whimster and S. Lash (eds). The Recent Work of Jürgen Habermas. Reason, Justice and Modernity Stephen K. White. Culture, Identity and Politics Ernest Gellner. Which Socialism? Marxism, Socialism and Democracy Noberto Bobbio. Culture, Identity and Politics Ernest Gellner. Which Socialism? Marxism, Socialism and Democracy Noberto Bobbio. The End of Organized Capitalism Scott Lash and John Urry. The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society James R. Beninger. Transcarceration: Essays in the Sociology of Social Control J. Lowman, R. J. Menzies, T. S. Palys. The Police: Powers, Procedures and Proprieties John Benyon and Colin Bourn, (eds). Anthropological Studies of Religion: An Introductory Text Brian Morris. The Social History of Religion in Scotland since 1730 Callum G. Brown. Jews, Antisemitism and Culture in Vienna Ivar Oxaal, Michael Pollak and Gerhard Botz (eds). The Science Question in Feminism Sandra Harding. Gender, Culture and Empire: European Women in Colonial Nigeria Helen Callaway. Women's Occupational Mobility Shirley Dex. Occupations of the People of Great Britain 1801–1981 (with a compendium of a paper by Charles Booth), Guy Routh. Occupations of the People of Great Britain 1801–1981 (with a compendium of a paper by Charles Booth), Guy Routh. Voices of the People, The Social Life of ‘La Sociale’ at the end of the Second Empire Adrian Rifkin and Roger Thomas (eds), translated by John Moore. Business and Politics in Britain Wyn Grant with Jane Sargent. Education, Unemployment and Labour Markets P. Brown and D. N. Ashton, (eds). Rethinking Welfare B. Jordan.     

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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

Berg, Ivar and Kalleberg, Arne L. Sourcebook of Labor Markets: Evolving Structures and Processes
Boyne, R. Risk
Castells, Manuel and Himanen, Pekka The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model
Glasius, Marlies, Kaldor, Mary and Anheier, Helmut (eds) Global Civil Society 2002
Handel, Michael J. The Sociology of Organizations: Classic, Contemporary, and Critical Readings
Klinenberg, Eric Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
Moss, Pamela and Dyck, Isabel Women, Body, Illness: Space and Identity in the Everyday Lives of Women with Chronic Illness
O'Hearn, Denis The Atlantic Economy: Britain, the US and Ireland
Perrow, Charles Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism
Sharot, Stephen A Comparative Sociology of World Religions: Virtuosos, Priests, and Popular Religion
Sklair, Leslie The Transnational Capitalist Class
Wagner, Peter Theorizing Modernity: Inescapability and Attainability in Social Theory