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Book reviewed in this article: Democracy and Community: A Study of Politics in Sheffield. by William Hampton. British Social Policy, 1914–1939 by Bentley B. Gilbert. Exploration into Child Care by Peter Boss. Introduction to Social Research by S. Labovitz and R. Hagedorn. Organizational Analysis: A Sociological View by Charles Perrow. Chains of Opportunity: System Models of Mobility in Organisations by Harrison C. White. Race and Racialism edited by Sami Zubaida. The Contexts of Social Mobility: Ideology and Theory by Anselm L. Strauss. Religious Sects by Bryan Wilson. Rural Exodus: A Study of the Forces Influencing the large-Scale Migration of Irish Rural Youth by Damian Hannan. Embattled Reason: Essays on Social Knowledge by Reinhard Bendix. Social Policy in Context by Joyce Warham. Let's Look at the Figures by D. J. Bartholomew and E. E. Bassett. Merseyside Social and Economic Studies edited by R. Lawton and C. M. Cunningham. The Sociology of Art and Literature edited by M. C. Albrecht et al. The Social Context of Art edited by J. Creedy. The Uneasy Partnership: Social Science and the Federal Government in the Twentieth Century by Gene M. Lyons. The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology by Alvin W. Gouldner. Language and Poverty: Perspectives on a Theme edited by Frederick Williams.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Campus Power Strggle edited by Howard S. Becker. Theory Construction: From Verbal to Mathematical Formulations by H. M. Blalock. Personality and Religion: The Rôle of Religon in Personality Development edited by William A. Sadler Jr. Social Relations in a Secondary School by David H. Hargreaves. Society and Economic Growth: A Behavioural Perspective of Social Change by J. H. Kunkel. Sociology, Histroy and Education: A Reader edited by P. W. Musgrave. Social Research and Social Policy by Howard E. Freeman and Clarence C. Sherwood. The Emergence of Society by C. K. Warriner. The Philosophy of Social Science by Alan Ryan. Television and Delinquency by J. D. Halloran, R. L. Brown and D. C. Chaney. Foster Care: Theory and Practice by V. George. The Sociological Study of Religion by R. Scharf. Basic Readings in the Sociology of Education edited by D. F. Swift. Social System and Time and Space by J. Kolaja. I Data Bases, Computers, and the Social Sciences edited by R. L. Bisco. II Cluster Analysis by R. C. Tryon and D. E. Bailey. Whose City? And Other Essays on Sociology and Planning by R. E. Pahl.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Manufacture of News: Deviance, Social Problems and the Mass Media edited by S. Cohen and J. Young. Social Stratification and Trade Unionism by G. S. Bain, D. Coates and V. Ellis. Racism and the Mass Media by Paul EUirtmann and Charles Husband. Labour Relations on the Docks by Michael P. Jackson. Marxism versus Sociology: A Guide to Reading by Martin Shaw. Man and Organization: The Search for Explanation and Social Relevance edited by John Child. Tinker, Tailor … The Myth of Cultural Deprivation edited by Nell Keddie. Sociologists and Religion by Susan Budd. Drivers after Sentence by T. C. Willett. Language, Psychology and Culture: Essays by Wallace E. Lambert edited by Anwar S. Dil. On the Beginning of Social Inquiry by P. McHugh et al. School Organisation and Pupil Involvement: A Study of Secondary Schools by Ronald King. EthnometJwdology: Selected Readings edited by Roy Turner.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Structralism: a Reader edited by Michael Lane. Ethics, Politics, and Social Research edited by Gideon Sioberg. Remara: A Community in Eastern Ruanda by Pierre Bettez Gravel. Planning Local Authority Services for the Elderly by Greta Summer and Randall Smith. Paterns of Urban Life by R. E. Pahl. Florian Znaniecki on Humanistic Sociology edited by R. Bierstedt. Reflections on the Problem of Relevance by A. Schutz. Theodor Geiger on Social Order and Mass Society edited by R. mayntz. Men, Money and Medicine by Eli Ginzber with Miriam Ostow. Politics and the Social Sciences edited by S. M. Lipset. Objectivity in Social Research by Gunnar Myrdal. I Freud: Political and Social Through by Paul Roazen. II The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx by Shlomo Avineri. Mr. Martins' review of Avineri's book has been delayed by pressure of work, Ed.) The Sociology of Protestantism by Roger Mehl (tr. James H. Farley). Immigration and Integration: A Study of the Settlement of Coloured Minorities in Britain by Clifford Hill. The Sociology of Grass Roots Politics by David Berry. The Growth of White-Collar Unionism by George Sayers Bain.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Social Theory and Social Policy by R. Pinker. The Nylon Spinners: A Case Study in Productivity Bargaining and Job Enlargement by S. Cotgrove, J. Dunham and C. Vamplew. Consumer Behaviour edited by A. S. C. Ehrenberg and F. G. Pyatt. The British Academics by A. H. Halsey and martin Trow. ReligiousInstitutions by Joan Brothers. The Geography of Religion in England by John D. Gay. The Analysis of Mortality and Other Actuarial Statistics by B. Benjamin and H. W. Haycocks. Socioloical Theory and Philosophical Analysis edited by D. Emmett and A. C. MacIntyre. The Sociology of the Family edited by M. Anderson. Helping the Aged by E. Matilda Goldberg. Crime and Delinquency in Britain: Sociological Readings edited by W. G. Carson and Paul Wiles. Delinquent Behaviors by Don C. Gibbons. An Introduction to Social Psychiatry by Ransom J. Arthur. The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy by R. M. Titmuss. Social Relationships edited by George J. McCall. Functionalism, Exchange and Theoretical Strategy by M. J. Mulkay.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Robert Maclver on Community, Society and Power, selected writings edited and with an introdution by Leon Bramson. Longitudinal Studies and the Social Sciences by W. D. Wall and H. L. Williams. Crime, Police, and Race Relations: A Study in Birmingham by John R. Lambert. Family, Class and Education: A Reader edited by Maurice Craft. Family, Class and Education: A Reader edited by maurice Craft. Social Mobility and Political Change by Ioan Davies. Social Stress edited by Sol Levine and Norman A. Scotch. Sociology in Britain: A Suvey of Research by Ernest Krausz. Polls, Television, and the New Politics by Harold Mendelsohn and Irving Crespi. Social Work and the Sociology of Organizations by Gilbert Smith. The Sociology of Progress by Leslie Sklair. The Legacy of Max Weber by L. M. Lachmann. The Moral Development of Children by N. Williams and S. Williams. Rationality edited by Bryan R. Wilson. Adolescent Needs and the Transition from School to Work by Joan Maizels. Sociology in its Place and Other Essays by W. G. Runciman. Sociology and Social Work: Perspectives and Problems by Brian J. Heraud.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Social Psychology of Race Relations by Leonard Bloom. The English and Immigration: A Comparative Study of the Jewish Influx, 1880–1910 by John A. Garrard. Sexuality, A Search for Perspective edited by D. L. Grummon and A. M. Barclay. The Sociology of Religion: A Study of Christendom. Vol. V. Types of Religious Culture by Werner Stark. The Sociology of Mental Disorder by R. Bastide, translated by Jean McNeil. Max Weher and Sociology Today edited by Otto Stammer. Local Prisons: The Crisis in the English Penal System by Richard F. Sparks. Societyf Culture and Personality: An Introduction to Social Science by Zevedei Barbu. Sociology of Literature by Robert Escarpit, translated by Ernest Pick. Retirement in American Society: Impact and Process by Gordon F. Streib and clement J. Schneider, S.J. The Feminine Character: History of an Ideology by Viola Klein. George Simmel on Individuality and Social Forms edited and with an Introduction by Donald N. Levine. The Origins of Human Social Relations edited by H. R. Schaffer. Mass Culture Revisited edited by B. Rosenberg and D. M. White. African Businessmen: A Study of Entrepreneurship and Development in Kenya by Peter Marris and Anthony Somerset. Readings in the Theory of Educational Systems edited by Earl Hopper. Religion in Radical Transition edited by Jeffrey K. Hadden. Interpersonal Relations and Education by David Hargreaves. The Social Frameworks of Knowledge by Georges Gurvitch, translated by Margaret A. Thompson and Kenneth A. Thompson. Herbert Spencer: The Evolution of a Sociologist by J. D. Y. Peel.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Marxist Sociology in Action by J. A. Banks. Ferdinand Tænnies on Sociology: Pure, Applied and Empirical. Selected Writings edited and with an introduction by Werner J. Cahnman and Rudolph Herberle. Alfred Schutz: On Phenomenology and Social Relations edited by H. R. Wagner. The Social Psychology of the Child with Epilepsy by Christopher Bagley. Separated Spouses: A Study of the Matrimonial furisdiction of Magistrates Courts by O. R. McGregor, Louis Blom-Cooper and Colin Gibson. The Relevance of Sociology edited by Jack D. Douglas. The Impact of Sociology edited by Jack D. Douglas. Women in Top jobs by Michael Fogarty, A. J. Allen, Isobel Allen and Patricia Walters. Sex, Carrer and Family by Michael P. Fogarty, Rhona Rapoport and Robert Rapoport. Deviance and Respectability: The Social Construction of Moral Meanings edited by Jack D. Douglas. The Future of Work and Leisure by Stanley Parker. The Social Consequences of Conviction by J. P. Martin and D. Webster. Behaviourd Worlds by P, G. Herbst Applied Factor Analysis by R. J. Rummel. Imperialism by George Lichtheirn.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Politics of Social Research: An Inquiry into the Ethics and Responsibilities of Socail Scientists by Ralph L. Beals. Organisational Behavior by Joe Kelly. Construction of Preference Spaces: An Investigation into the Applicability of Multidimensional Scaling Models by L. Delbeke. The Theory of Social Change: Four Views Considered by John McLeish. Middle Age and Aging edited by B. L. Neugarten. The Business Enterprise in Modern Industrial Society by John Child. Caring for Children in Trouble by J. Carlebach. The Family by C. C. Harris. The Theory and Practice of Vocational Guidance: A Selection of Readings by Barie Hopson and John Hayes. The Concept of Community edited by D. W. Minar and S. Greer. The Desegregation of the Mentally Ill by J. Hoenig and Marian W. Hamilton. Max Weber on Charisma and Institution Building edited by S. N. Eisenstadt. Towards a Sociology of Mass Communications by D. McQuail. The Logic of Social Inquiry by Scott Greer. Computer Methods in the Analysis of Large-Scale Social Systems revised edition, edited by James M. Beshers. Social Networks in Urban Situations edited by J. Clyde Mitchell. Ownership, Control, and Ideology by Theon. Small Town in Mass Society: Class, Power and Religion in a Rural Community by A. J. Vidich and J. Bensman. Modernizing Peasant Societies: A Comparative Study in Asia and Africa by Guy Hunter. Sport, Culture, and Society:a Reader on th Sociology of Sport edited by John W. Loy and Gerald S. Kenyon. Adolescent Girlds in Approved Schools by Helen J. Richardson. Studies in British Society edited by J. A. Banks. Social Research by Michael Schofield. Values and Involvement in a Grammar School by Ronald King.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Social Hierarchies by Roland Mousnier, translated by Peter Evans. Reference Groups and the Theory of Revolution by John Urry. Meaning and Control: Essays in Social Aspects of Science and Tech-nology edited by D. O. Edge and J. N. Wolfe. Rebellion and Retreat: Readings in the Forms and Processes of Deviance edited by S. Palmer and A. S. Linsky. New Towns: The British Experience edited by H. Evans. Essays introduced by Peter Self. Claimant or Client? by Olive Stevenson. Research in Religious Behavior: Selected Readings edited by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi. Redundancy and Paternalistic Capitalism: A Study in the Sociology of Work by R. Martin and R. H. Fryer. Art Students Observed by Charles Madge and Barbara Weinberger. Reluctant Farmers? A Study of Unemployment and Planned Rural Development in Uganda by Caroline Hutton. Services for Children and Their Families–Aspects of Child Care for Social Workers edited by John Stroud. Voluntary Associations: Perspectives on the Literature by Constance Smith and Anne Freedman.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Hidden America: Social Problems in Rural America for the Twenty‐First Century, edited by Robert M. Moore. Unpacking Culture: Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds, edited by Ruth B. Phillips and Christopher B. Steiner. In the Company of Neighbours: Revitalizing Community Through Action Research, by C. Kenneth Banks and J. Marshall Mangan. The Rise of the Agricultural Welfare State: Institutions and Interest Group Power in the United States, France and Japan, by Adam D. Sheingate. Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food and the Environment, edited by Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster, and Frederick H. Buttel. Beyond Equilibrium Theory: Theories of Social Action and Social Change Applied to a Study of Power Sharing in Transition, by M. Ross De‐Witt. Transnational Peasants: Migrations, Networks, and Ethnicity in Andean Ecuador, by David Kyle. Women and Power: Fighting Patriarchies and Poverty, by Janet Townsend, Emma Zapata, Jo Rowlands, Pilar Alberti, and Marta Mercado. Men at Work: Labour, Masculinities, Development, edited by Cecile Jackson.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Media and Glocal Change: Rethinking Communication for Development, edited by Oscar Hemer and Thomas Tufte. Black Earth and Ivory Tower: New American Essays from Farm and Classroom, edited by Zachary Michael Jack. Population Change and Rural Society, edited by William A. Kandel and David L. Brown. Appalachian Cultural Competency: A Guide for Medical, Mental Health, and Social Service Professionals, edited by Susan E. Keefe. Rural Gender Relations: Issues and Case Studies, edited by Bettina B. Bock and Sally Shortall.     

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Books review in this article: Emile Durkheim by Robert Bierstedt Ideology and Crime: A Study of Crime in its Social and Historical Context by Leon Radzinowicz Crime and its Correction: An International Survey of Attitudes and Practices by John P. Conrad The Delinquent Solution by D. M. Dowries Comparative Criminology, A Text Book by H. Mannheim Borstal Reassessed by Roger Hood Theories of Primitive Religion by E. E. Evans-Pritchard The Relevance of Models for Social Anthropology edited by Michael Banton Political Systems and the Distribution of Power edited by Michael Banton Urbanisation and Migration in West Africa edited by Hilda Kuper Mental Health in a Changing World. Volume I of a Report of an International Study Group convened by the World Federation for Mental Health. Edited by Kenneth Soddy and Robert H. Ahrenfeldt Professional Employees by Kenneth Prandy The Elite in the Welfare State by Piet Thoenes, edited by J. A. Banks The Hidden Society by Vilhelm Aubert Social Sciences at Harvard, 1860-1920; from Inculcation to the Open Mind edited, with a preface, by Paul Buck The Protestant Establishment by E. Digby Baltzell     

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Book reviewed in this article: Making Gender Work edited by Jenny Shaw and Diane Perrons. Gendering Welfare States edited by Diane Sainsbury. Men, Masculinities and Social Welfare by Keith Pringle.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Small Groups and Political Behcwiour: A Study of Leadership by Sidney Verba. Power in Britain edited by John Urry and John Wakeford. Society and the Policeman's Role by M. E. Cain. A Sociology of Religion by Michael Hill. The Dialectics of Social Lije by Robert F. Murphy. Sociolinguistics edited by J. B. Pride and J. Holmes. Plans and Provisions for the Mentally Handicapped by M. Bone, B. Spain and F. M. Martin. Community Studies by Colin Bell and Howard Newby. Progressives and Radicals in English Education, 1750–1970 by W. A. C. Stewart. Survey Research in Africa: Its Applications and Limits edited by W. M. O'Barr et al. Migration and Race Relations in an English City: A Study in Bristol by A. H. Richmond et al. Education and Modernization in the USSR by S. M. Rosen. The Family by Robert O. Blood. The Education of Teachers in Britain edited by D. E. Lomax. The Formal Organization edited by R. H. Hall. Herbert Spencer on Social Evolution edited and with an Introduction by J. D. Y. Peel. Regional Variations in Britain: Studies in Economic and Social Geo-graphy by B. E. Coates and E. M. Rawstron. Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery by Barrington Moorej Jr. Careers in Dope by Dan Waldorf. A Critique of Max Weber's Philosophy of Social Science by W. G. Runciman.     

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Books review in this article: The Affluent Worker: Political Attitudes and Behaviour by John H. Goldthorpe, David Lockwood, Frank Bechhofer, Jennifer Plan International Systems and the Modernization of Societies by J. P. Nettl and Roland Robertson The Educational Innovators, Vol. 2 by W. A. C. Stewart Readings in Urban Sociology edited by R. E. Pahl One in Twenty: A Study of Homosexuality in Men and Women by Bryan Magee The African Predicament by Stanislav Andreski The Sociology of Education by Olive Banks Social Stratification by Carol Owen Industrial Disputes: Essays in the Sociology of Industrial Relations by J. E. T. Eldridge Society and the Adolescent Self-Image by Morris Rosenberg Main Currents in Sociologial Thought II by Raymond Aron Social Stratification edited by J. A. Jackson Readings in Reference Group Theory and Research edited by H. H. Hyman and E. Singer Dialectical Sociology: An Analysis of the Sociology of Georges Gurvitch by Phillip Bosserman Urban Sociology by R. N. Morris Political Mobilisation: A Sociological Analysis of Methods and Concepts by J. P. Nettl Commitment to Welfare by Richard M. Titmuss Israeli Society by S. N. Eisenstadt Organizational Careers: A Sourcebook for Theory by B. G. Glaser A Reader in Social Administration edited by A. V. S. Lochhead Theory and Methods of Social Research by J. Galtung Halfway Houses by R. Z. Apte Comparative Social Administration by Barbara Rodgers, John Greve and John S. Morgan Personnel Management in Context by Anne Crichton Readings in the Sociology of Language edited by Joshua A. Fishman Progress and Disillusion: The Dialectics of Modem Society by R. Axon The Affluent Worker: Industrial Attitudes and Behaviour by J. H. Goldthorpe, D. Lockwood, F. Bechhofer, J. Platt     

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Books review in this article: Essays in the Theory of Society by Ralf Dahrendorf Thorstein Veblen edited by Carlton C. Qualey Teachers as Counsellors by Alick Holden Demographic Analysis by Bernard Benjamin The City in Newly Developing Countries: Readings on Urbanism and Urbanization edited by Gerald Breese The Sixth Form and College Entrance by R. N. Morris Child Care: Needs and Numbers by Jean Packman Regional and Urban Studies edited by Sarah C. Orr and J. B. Culling-worth Middle Class Families by C. R. Bell Group Dynamics: Research and Theory edited by D. Cartwright and A. Zander Regional Policy in Britain by G. McCrone The Half-Shut Eye by John Whale Social Work with Groups by Helen Northen Human Motivation by M. D. Vernon Technological Growth and Social Change by S. A. Hetzler The New Towns: The Answer to Megalopolis by Frederic J. Osborn and Arnold Whittick Principles of Demography by D. J. Bogue British Management Thought by John Child     

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Book reviewed in this article: Bioevolution: How Biotechnology is Changing Our World, by Michael Fumento Community and Forests: Where People Meet the Land, edited by Robert G. Lee and Donald R. Field Social Assessment: Theory, Process and Techbiques, 3rd ed., by C. Nicholas Taylor, C. Hobson Bryan and Colin G. Goodrich The Concepts, Process and Methods of Social Impact Assessment: Rabel J. Burdge and Colleagues, by Rabel J. Burdge Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan: Concepts of Tradition and Modernity in Practice, edited by Christopher S. Thompson and John W. Traphagan The Virtual Farmer: Past, Present and Future of the Dutch Peasantry, by Jan Douwe van der Ploeg     

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Social Work in Rural Communities, 2nd ed., edited by Leon H. Ginsberg. Alexandria, VA: Council on Social Work Education. $13.00 (paper).     

Making sense of political contention: Approaches, substantive issues, and interpretation in social movement analysis

This review essay discusses and compares three books that cover aspects of political contention and social movements. The books are Freedom is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements by Francesca Polletta (Chicago: The University of Chicago, 2002); Making Sense of Social Movements by Nick Crossley (Buckingham: Open University Press, 2002); and Methods of Social Movement Research, edited by Bert Klandermans and Suzanne Staggenborg (Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 2002).