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.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Greening Industrialization in Asian Transitional Economies: China and Vietnam, edited by Arthur P. J. Mol and Joost C. L. Van Buuren. Sustainability and Spirituality, by John E. Carroll. Recoding Nature: Critical Perspectives on Genetic Engineering, edited by Richard Hindmarsh and Geoffrey Lawrence. Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor, by Steve Lerner. Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects, by Arun Agrawal.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty‐First Century, edited by David L. Brown and Louis E. Swanson. Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment, by James Gustave Speth. Killing Me Softly: Toxic Waste, Corporate Profit, and the Struggle for Environmental Justice, by Eddie J. Girdner and Jack Smith. Natural Assets: Democratizing Environmental Ownership, edited by James K. Boyce and Barry G. Shelley. The Curse of American Agricultural Abundance: A Sustainable Solution, by Willard Cochrane, with a foreword by Richard A. Levins.     

New Books

Psychology in Action, by Margaret O. Hyde and Edward S. Marks. Theories of Career Development, by Samuel H. Osipow. Guide to Success in College, by Bernice W. Einstein. A Popular Guide to Government Publications, (3rd edition), by W. Philip Leidy. Wall Street Careers, by Paul Sarnoff. Guide to Careers Through Vocational Training, by Edwin A. Whitfield and Richard Hoover. San Diego: Robert R. Knapp The Negro and the American Labor Movement, edited by Julius Jacobson. Opportunities in an Accounting Career, by Raymond G. Ankers; Opportunities in a Forestry Career, by E. L. Demnon; Opportunities in an Optometry Career, by Frank M. Kitchell; Opportunities in a Chiropractic Career, produced with the cooperation of the ACA and ICA. The Counseling of College Students, edited by Max Siegel.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Human Understanding, Volume I by S. Touhnin. Variations in Children's Services Among British Urban Authorities by B. Davies, A. Barton and I. McMillan. The Sociology of the Professions by Philip Elliott. Tradition, Rationality and Change by M. S. A. Rao. Processes of Mass Communication by David Chaney. Behind Ghetto Walls by Lee Rainwater. From School to Work: A Study of the Youth Employment Service by Kenneth Roberts. New Minorities, Old Conflicts: Asian and West Indian Immigrants in Britian by Sheila Allen. Rǒle edited by J. A. Jackson. Toward a Critical Sociology by Norman Birnbaum. Workers' Attitudes and Technology by Dorothy Wedderburn and Rosemary Crompton. The First Five Years of Life: A Guide to the Study of the Preschool Child by Arnold Gesell. Institutions and Social Exchange: The Sociologies of Talcott Parsons and George C. Homans edited by Herman Turk and Richard L. Simpson. Community Action and Race Relations: A Study of Community Relations Committees in Britain by M. J. Hill and R. M. Issacharoff. Herbert Spencer edited by Stanislav Andreski. The Ghanaian Factory Worker: Industrial Man in Africa by Margaret Peil. Young People and Society by Ted Tapper. Max Weber and Modern Sociology edited by A. Sahay.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States, by Min Zhou and Carl L. The California Cauldron: Immigration and the Fortunes of Local Communities, by William A.V. Clark. Making Democracy Work Better: Mediating Structures, Social Capital, and the Democratic Prospect, by Richard A. Couto with Catherine S. Guthrie. The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia, by Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee. Technology Development in Rural Industries: A Study of China's Collectives, by Hannah Piek.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Rural Women's Health: Mental, Behavioral, and Physical Issues, edited by R.T. Coward, L.A. Davis, C.H. Gold, H. Smiciklas‐Wright, L.E. Thorndyke and F.W. Vondracek. Photographing Farmworkers in California, by Richard S. Street (foreword by Kevin Starr). French Beans and Food Scares: Culture and Commerce in an Anxious Age, by Susanne Freidberg. Famine that Kills: Darfur, Sudan, Rev. ed., by Alex de Waal. Sustainability and the Civil Commons: Rural Communities in the Age of Globalization, by Jennifer Sumner.     

New Books

How to Succeed in High School, by George Weigand. Woodbury Executives Under Fire by Chester Burger. The Employed Mother in America edited by F. Svan Nye and Lois W. Caesar's Forms & Syntax by Thornton A. McGill Jr. Woodbury, New York Careers in Natural Resource Conservation by Fred W. Herbert. New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1965. Learning and the Educational Process edited by John D. Krumboltz. Know Yourself, by Arnold L. Ganley and George S. Elias. Vocational Guidance and Career Development edited by Herman J. Peters and James C. Hansen. Guidance in Agricultural Education (Second Edition) by Harold M. Byram. Danville Classrooms on Main Street by Harold F. Clark and Harold S. Sloan. Introduction to College Life (Second Edition) by Norman T. Bell, Richard W. Burkhardt, and Victor B. Lawhead.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Privatization of Information and Agricultural Industrialization, edited by Steven A. Wolf. Peasant Maids, City Women: From the European Countryside to Urban America, edited by Christiane Harzig. Land and Labour Relations in South‐West Bangladesh: Resources, Power and Conflict, by Anjan Kumar Datta. Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland, by Kathryn Marie Dudley. Disappearing Peasantries? Rural Labour in Africa, Asia and Latin America, edited by Deborah Bryceson, Cristóbal Kay, and Jos Mooij. A Nation Divided: Diversity, Inequality and Community in American Society, edited by Phyllis Moen, Donna Dempster‐McClain, and Henry A. Walker. Property and Value: Alternatives to Public and Private Ownership, edited by Charles Geisler and Gail Daneker. New Frontiers in Agricultural History, Vol. 1, edited by Kyle D. Kauffman.     

Book Reviews

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.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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     

Humanistic Leadership in the 1990s: Heart,Soul, and Head

The Leader of the Future: New Visions, Strategies, and Practices for the Next Era, edited by Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith, and Richard Beckhard. San Francisco: Jossey- Bass, 1996. 319 pp., $25.00 cloth. Leading with Soul: An Uncommon Journey of Spirit, by Lee G. Bolman and Terrence E. Deal. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995. 195 pp., $20.00 cloth. Leading and Managing the Expressive Dimension: Harnessing the Hidden Power Source of the Nonprofit Sector, by David E. Mason. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996. 323 pp., $29.95 cloth.     

Book Reviews

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.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Rationality and Nature: A Sociological Inquiry into a Changing Relationship, by Raymond Murphy. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994, 295 pages. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $21.95. Is Capitalism Sustainable? Political Economy and the Politics of Ecology, edited by Martin O'Connor. New York: Guilford, 1994,283 pages. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95. Cultivating Crisis: The Human Cost of Pesticides in Latin America, by Douglas L. Murray. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994, 208 pages. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $17.95. The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty, by Jill Quadagno. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, 254 pages. Cloth, $24.00. Editors as Gatekeepers: Getting Published in the Social Sciences, edited by Rita J. Simon and James J. Fyfe. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1994, 275 pages. Cloth, $53.50; paper $22.95. Sexual Salvation: Affirming Women's Sexual Rights and Pleasures, by Naomi B. McCormick. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994, 284 pages, $16.95. Militancy, Market Dynamics, and Workplace Authority: The Struggles over Labor Process Outcomes in the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1946–1973, by James R. Zetka Jr. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994, 292 pages. Cloth, $18.95. Sociology and Visual Representation, by Elizabeth Chaplin. London and New York: Routledge, 1994, 304 pages. Paper, $19.95. Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth Century, by Diane E. Davis. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994, 391 pages. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $24.95. Appalachia in an International Context: Cross-National Comparisons of Developing Regions, edited by Phillip J. Obermiller and William W. Philliber. Westport, CT, and London: Praeger, 1994, 256 pages. Cloth, $55.00. Law in the Sociological Enterprise: A Reconstruction, by Lisa J. McIntyre. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994, 240 pages. Cloth, $52.50; paper, $16.95. Against All Odds: Rural Community in the Information Age, by John C. Allen and Don A. Dillman. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994, 238 pages. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95. Fundamental Feminism: Contesting the Core Concepts of Feminist Theory, by Judith Grant. New York: Routledge, 1993, 226 pages. Cloth $52.50; paper, $16.95. The Rise and Fall of Catholic Religious Orders: A Social Movement Perspective, by Patricia Wittberg, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994, 423 pages. Cloth, $74.50; paper, $24.95. White Racism: The Basics, by Joe R. Feagin and Hernan Vera. New York: Routledge, 1995, 230 pages. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $16.95.     

The early Cape anatomised

The Shaping of South African Society 1652–1820, edited by Richard Elphick and Hermann Giliomee. Cape Town: Longman, 1979.     

On the shaping of South African society

The Shaping of South African Society edited by Richard Elphick and Hermann Giliomee. Cape Town: Longman Penguin Southern Africa. R15,00.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Social Psychology, Past and Present: An Integrative Orientation, by Jay M. Jackson. Hillside, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1988, 173 pages, $24.95, cloth. Networks of Power: Organizational Actors at the National, Corporate, and Community Levels, edited by Robert Perrucci and Harry R. Potter. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1989, 136 pages. Charismatic Capitalism: Direct Selling Organizations in America, by Nicole Woolsey Biggart. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989, 223 pages, $24.95, hardback. Liberal Education and the Corporation: The Hiring and Advancement of College Graduates, by Michael Useem. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1989, xxvii + 216 pages, $39.95, hardback, $16.95, paper. Symbolic Communication: Signifying Calls and the Police Response, by Peter K. Manning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988, 309 pages, hardback. Assimilation, Colonialism and the Mexican American People, by Edward Murguia. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1989, 124 pages, $9.75, paperback. Jewish Settler Violence: Deviance as Social Reaction, by David Weisburd. University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989, 164 pages, $22.50, hardback. Differentiation Theory and Social Change: Comparative and Historical Perspectives, edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander and Paul Colomy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990, 496 pages, $40.00, hardback. Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond, by Douglas Kellner. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989, 246 pages, $35.00, cloth, $11.95, paper. Postindustrial Possibilities: A Critique of Economic Discourse, by Fred Block. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990, 227 pages, $35.00, hardback, $12.95, paper. To The Right: The Transformation of American Conservatism, by Jerome L. Himmelstein. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990, 301 pages, $25.00, hardback. Continental Divide: The Values and Institutions of the United States and Canada, by Seymour Martin Lipset. New York: Routledge, 1990, 337 pages, $29.95/US; $35.00/Canada, hardback. Structure and Meaning: Relinking Classical Sociology, by Jeffrey C. Alexander. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989, 258 pages, $35.00, hardback. Emile Durkheim and the Reformation of Sociology, by Stjepan G. Mestrovic. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1988, 156 pages, $28.50, cloth.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Biological Diversity: Balancing Interests through Adaptive Collaborative Management, edited by Louise E. Buck, Charles C. Geisler, John Schelhas, and Eva Wollenberg. NGOs in India: A Cross‐Sectional Study, by R. Sooryamoorthy and K.D. Gangarde Working Through Environmental Conflict: The Collaborative Learning Approach, Steven E. Daniels and Gregg B. Walker The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America, by James Mahoney Dairy Industry Restructuring: Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Vo lume 8, edited by Harry K. Schwarzweller and Andrew P. Davidson Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change, by Robert Gottlieb Bridging Human and Ecological Landscapes: Participatory Research and Sustainable Development in an Andean Agricultural Frontier, edited by Robert E. Rhoades     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article Planning and Human Need by P. Heywood The No-Growth Society edited by Mancur Olsen and Hans H. Lansberg Voluntary Action Research: 1974 edited by David Horton Smith Practical Social Sciences by Aeiam Podgoredd Race, Class and Militancy: An African Trade Union, 1939–1965 by R. D. Gdllo Mass Communication Research: Major Issues and Future Directiorts edited by W. Phillips Davison and Frederick T. C. Yu From Karl Mannheim eelited and with an introduction by Kurt H. Wolff Industrialism by Barry Turner Contemporary Soviet Government by L. G. Churchward Colliery Closure and Social Change: A Study of a South Wales Mining Vdley by John Sewel Ethnicity: Theory and Experience edited by N. Glazer and D. P. Moynihan Rzecz o Nauczydelach w Wychowujacym Spoleczetistwie Socjalistycznym (The Rôle of Teachers in Educating a Socialist Sodety) by Jan Szczepanstd Understanding Social Life: The Method called Verstehen by William Outhwaite Marx and Modem Social Theory by Alan Swingewood The Co-operative Farmer and the Welfare State by J. S. Abarbanel Sociology and Philosophy by Emile Durkheim. Translated by D. F. Pocock, with an Introduction by J. G. Peristiany, and an article on Dtirkhdm's Life and Work by Talcott Parsons The Politics of Organizational Decision Making by A. Pettigrew The Sociology of Organisations by D. J. Champion Power, Persistence and Change: A Second Study of Banbury by M. Sacey, E. Batstone, C. Bell and A. Murcott Talcott Parsons and American Sociology by Guy Rocher The Politics of Law Enforcement by Alan Edward Bent Gypsies and Government Policy in England: A Study of the Travellers’Way of Life in Relation to Policies and Practices of Central and Load Government by Barbara Adams, Judith Okely, David Morgan and David Smith Theoretical Thinking in Sociology by W. Skidmore Old-Age Institutions by Barbara Boiling Manard, Cary Steven Kart and Dirk W. L. van Gils Drugs, Society and the Law by Harvey Teff     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Troubled Fields: Men, Emotions, and the Crisis in American Farming, by Eric Ramirez‐Ferrero. Globalization and Indigenous Peoples in Asia, edited by Dev Nathan, Govind Kelkar and Pierre Walter. Identity and the Natural Environment: The Psychological Significance of Nature, edited by Susan Clayton and Susan Opotow. Good Growing: Why Organic Farming Works, by Leslie A. Duram.