Review Essay:Rural Sociology,Migration, and Community Change

Research in Rural Sociology and Development: Focus on Migration, edited by Harry K. Schwarzweller and Brendan P. Mullan. Population Change in the Rural West: 1975–1990, edited by John M. Wardwell and James H. Copp. Lanham, MD Community of Strangers: Change, Turnover, Turbulence and the Transformation of a Midwestern Country Town, by Joseph A. Amato and John Radzilowski.     

Review Essay: Writing Social Things

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Review Essay: Community and Religion in a Post‐Modern Global World: A Review Essay on Anabaptist Religious Groups

The Amish on the Iowa Prairie: 1840 to 1910, by Steven D. Reschly. Mennonites in the Global Village, by Leo Driedger. On the Backroad to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren, by Donald B. Kraybill and Carl F. Bowman.     

Review Essay: The Social Construction of Social Construction

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Review Essay: Unifying Social Movement Theories

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Review Essay: Whither Rural Community Development?

Partnerships in Communities: Reweaving the Fabric of Rural America, by Jean Richardson. Small Town and Rural Economic Development: A Case Studies Approach, edited by Peter V. Schaeffer and Scott Loveridge.     

Review Essay: Thinking Critically about West Indians,Culture, and Identity

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Review Essay: Researching AIDS in Society,Communities, and Social Groups

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Review Essay: The Culture of Charity?

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Review Essay: Recovery in a Therapeutic Culture

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Ethics in Social Research—A Review Essay*

Ethical Issues in Social Science Research, edited by Tom L. Beauchamp, Ruth R. Faden, R. Jay Wallace, Jr., and LeRoy Walters. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1982. 436 pp.
Social Research Ethics, An Examination of the Merits of Covert Participant Observation, edited by Martin Bulmer. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1982. 284 pp.     

Culture,Development, and Social Theory: On Cultural Studies and the Place of Culture in Development

Debates in development theory have recently swung back to taking seriously the relationship of culture to development, especially in the face of manifest failures of conventional approaches to economic growth and social transformation. This has happened at a moment when, especially within anthropology, the concept of culture itself is undergoing critical examination, and when cultural studies has emerged as a major challenge to anthropology's self-defined specialisation in the social-scientific analysis of culture. Few attempts have been made, however, to relate cultural studies and development studies, despite the fact that the relatively recent ‘cultural turn’ in the social sciences has derived largely from the currently fashionable status of cultural studies and its multidisciplinary nature. This paper explores this relationship and suggests that a cultural studies approach, despite its weaknesses, potentially revitalises the significance of culture in relationship to development.     

Review Essay: Power and Culture in Organizations: Two Contrasting Views

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Review Essay: Community and Participation in the Creation of Sustainable Agroecosystems

Facilitating Sustainable Agriculture: Participatory Learning and Adaptive Management in Times of Environmental Uncertainty, edited by N.G. Roling and M.A.E. Wagemakers. Interactions Between Agroecosystems and Rural Communities, edited by Cornelia B. Flora.     

Men, Situations, and Structure: An Essay

Plusieurs des positions contradictoires que lon retrouve dans le champ de lanthropologie économique peuvent être conçues comme étant des cas particuliers de questions théoriques plus générates. Dans ses différentes manifestations, le niveau micro ou macroscopique danalyse revêt une importance centrale. Cet article cherche à explorer, à un niveau général, les rapports qui existent entre lanalyse structurelle (le niveau macroscopique) et lacteur (le niveau micro). En utilisant une approche phénoménologique qui situe lindividu dans son vécu quotidien, lessai considère les situations sociales comme étant des connexions dynamiques entre les deux niveaux. En cherchant à determiner lintersection des dimensions spatiales et temporelles, lanalyse tente de dépasser les difficultés associées soit à la réification de la structure ou soit encore aux perspectives qui considèrent la société comme étant des simples agrégats dintérêts ou de relations interpersonnelles.
Many of the difficulties and conflicting positions in economic anthropology may be viewed as specific instances of more general theoretical issues. Among these the macro-micro problem in various forms appears of central importance. This article attempts, at a general level, to explore the relation of macro, or structural analysis, to the actor or micro level. In adopting a phenomenological orientation toward the person in everyday life, the article views social situations as the dynamic connection between the two levels. In pursuing the intersection of spatial and temporal dimensions, the analysis seeks to move beyond difficulties associated with either the reification of structure or the view of societies as being merely aggregates of interests and/or interpersonal negotiation.