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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.)     

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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:
A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England , Steven Shapin
The Sight of Sound: Music, Representation, and the History of the Body Richard Leppert
The Authority of the Consumer Russell Keat, Nigel Whiteley and Nicholas Abercrombie (eds)
Space, Place and Gender Doreen Massey
Ecological Feminism Karren J. Warren (ed.)
Gendered Work: Sexuality, Family and the Labour Market Lisa Adkins
The Social and Political Economy of the Household Michael Anderson, Frank Bechofer and Jonathan Gershuny, (eds)
Privatization and Popular Capitalism Peter Saunders and Colin Harris
Educational Reform: A Critical and Post-Structural Approach Stephen J. Ball
Gendered Education: Sociological Reflections on Women, Teaching and Feminism Sandra Acker
The Importance of Disappointment Ian Craib
Sport and Leisure in Social Thought G. Jarvie and J. Maguire
The Sociology of Religion. Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives Malcolm B. Hamilton
Raymond Williams: Making Connections John Eldridge and Lizzie Eldridge
Postmodernism and Social Inquiry David R. Dickens and Andrea Fontana, (eds)
The Poverty of Postmodernism John O'Neill
Insight and Solidarity. The Discourse Ethics of Jürgen Habermas William Rehg     

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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.     

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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 article
Society and Nature: Towards a Green Social Theory , Peter Dickens
Antiquity and Capitalism: Max Weber and the Sociological Foundations of Roman Civilization , John R. Love
Anthony Giddens , Ian Craib
Political Theory Today , David Held, (ed.)
The Man-Made City: The Land Use Confidence Game in Chicago , Gerald D. Suttles
Councillors in Crisis: The Public and Private Worlds of Local Councillors , Jacqueline Barron, Gerald Crawley and Tony Wood
The Constant Flux: A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Societie , Robert Erikson and John H. Goldthorpe
The Radiant Past: Ideology and Reality in Hungary's Road to Capitalism , Michael Burawoy and János Lukács
Talk and Social Structure: Studies in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis , Deirdre Boden and Don H. Zimmerman, (eds)
Talking of the Royal Family , Michael Billig
Children in Poverty: Child Development and Public Policy . Althea C. Huston, (ed.)
Good Days, Bad Days: The Self in Chronic Illness and Time , Kathy Charmaz
One in Three: Women with Cancer Confront an Epidemic , Judith Brady, (ed.)
Cancer in Two Voices , Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Racism after 'Race Relations ' Robert Miles
Racialised Barriers: The Black Experience in the United States and England in the 1980s Stephen Small
Locating Gender: Occupational Segregation, Wages and Domestic Responsibilities Janet Siltanen
Mothers and Their Children—A Feminist Sociology of Childrearing Jane Ribbens
Timewatch. The Social Analysis of Time B. Adam
Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order Ulrich Beck
The Russian Revolutions Max Weber
Associative Democracy: New Forms of Economic and Social Governance Paul Q. Hirst
Debating the Future of the Public Sphere: Transforming the Public and Private Domains in Free Market Societies Stephen Edgell
The Flâneur Keith Tester, (ed.)
and there was television Ellis Cashmore
Reporting Crime: The Media Politics of Criminal Justice Philip Schlesinger and Howard Tumber
' Game Without Frontiers: Football, Identity and Modernity 'R. Giulianotti and J. Williams, (eds)
Consumer Involvement: Concepts And Research Pirjo Laaksonen
Postmodern Cities and Spaces Sophie Watson and Catherine Gibson (eds)
Technopoles of the World: The Making of 21st Century Industrial Complexes Manuel Castells, and Peter Hall
Researching the People's Health J. Popay and G. Williams (eds)
Qualitative Studies in Health and Medicine M. Bloor and P. Taraborrelli (eds)
Resistance and Power in Organisations John Jermier     

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Book reviewed in this article: Sociology in America: Herbert J. Gans, (ed.) Animals and Society: The Humanity of Animal Rights: Keith Tester Social Forms/Human Capacities: Essays in Authority and Differences Philip Corrigan Labour Process Theory: David Knights and Hugh Willmott (eds) Max Weber's Construction of Social Theory: Martin Albrow Bureaucratisation in Northwestern Europe, 1880–1985: Domination and Governance: Rolf Torstendahl Organisational Rules: A Framework for Understanding Organisational Action: Albert J. Mills and Stephen J. Murgatroyd Organisations in Society: Glenn Morgan The Mastery of Reason: Cognitive Development and the Production of Rationality: Valerie Walkerdine Postmodern Education: Politics, Culture and Social Criticism: S. Aronowitz and H. A. Giroux ‘Race’, Ethnicity and Education: Teaching and Learning in Multi-Ethnic Schools: David Gillborn, Unwin Hyman Japan's ‘International Youth’: The Emergence of a New Class of Schoolchildren: Roger Goodman The Sociology of the Health Service: Jonathan Gabe, Michael Calnan and Michael Bury (eds) Living in a Man-Made World: Gender Assumptions in Modern Housing Design: Marion Roberts Women and Industrialization: Gender at Work in Nineteenth Century England: J. Lown The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy: David Cannadine The Making of Modern France: Ideology, Politics and Culture: Emmanuel Todd, Basil Blackwell Culture and Politics in Northern Ireland 1960–1990: Eamonn Hughes, (ed.) Highland Games: The Making of the Myth: Grant Jarvie Before Novels: The Cultural Context of Eighteenth Century English Fiction: J. Paul Hunter, W. W. Norton Writing Sites: Jon Stratton, Harvester-Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead The Ethnographic Imagination: Textual Constructions of Reality: Paul Atkinson Life and Work History Analyses: Qualitative and Quantitative Developments: Shirley Dex (ed.) A Sort of Clowning: Life and Times 1940–1959: Richard Hoggart     

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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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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     

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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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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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Book reviewed in this article: Review Essay Global Agriculture and Food: Libby , Ronald T. Protecting Markets. Review Essay Global Agriculture and Food: Fletcher , Lehman B. (ed.). World Food in the 1990s: Production, Trade and Aid. Review Essay Global Agriculture and Food: Schmandt , Jurgen , Frederick Williams , Robert H. Wilson , and Sharon Strover (eds.). Telecommunications and Rural Development: A Study of Private and Public Sector Innovation. Review Essay Global Agriculture and Food: Korsching , Peter F., Timothy O. Borich, and Julie Stewart (eds.). Multicommunity Collaboration: An Evolving Rural Revitalization Strategy. Review Essay Global Agriculture and Food: Buse , Rueben C., and James L. Driscoll (eds.). Rural Information Systems: New Directions in Data Collection and Retrieval. Review Essay Global Agriculture and Food: Flora , Cornelia Butler , Jan L. Flora , Jacqueline D. Spears, and Louis E. Swanson, with Mark B. Lapping and Mark L. Weinberg . Rural Communities: Legacy and Change. Rural Development: Straub , Lavonne A., and Norman Walzer (eds.). Rural Health Care: Innovation in a Changing Environment. Rural Development: Reidy , Joseph P. From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800–1880. Rural Development: Davidson , Osha Gray . Broken Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto. Regional Studies: Cobb , James C. The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity. Regional Studies: Thompson , Paul B. The Ethics of Aid and Trade: U.S. Food Policy, Foreign Competition, and the Social Contract. International Trade: Dicken , Peter . Global Shift: The Internationalization of Economic Activity (2nd ed.). International Trade: Satzewich , Vic . Racism and the Incorporation of Foreign Labour: Farm Labour Migration to Canada Since 1945. Environmental Issues: Croll , Elisabeth, and David Parkin (eds.). Bush Base, Forest Farm: Culture, Environment and Development. Environmental Issues: Krimsky , Sheldon, and Dominic Golding (eds.). Social Theories of Risk.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Who Should Know What? Social Science, Privacy and Ethics by J. A. Barnes. Ideology and Cultural Production by M. Barrett et al. (eds) Injustice—The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt by Barrington Moore J.P. Schooling in Decline by Gerald Bernbaum (ed.) The Restructuring of Social & Political Theory by Richard J. Bernstein Land and the National Question in Ireland, 1858–82 by Paul Bew Sociology and Psychology, Essays by Marcel Mauss The Jewish Intelligentsia and Russian Marxism by Robert J. Brym Fictions and Ceremonies: Representations of Popular Experience by David Chancy Susan Sontag, Introduction to The Art of Revolution 96 Posters from Cuba. Edited by Dugald Stermer The Social Construction of Mind: Studies in Ethnomethodology and Linguistic Philosophy by Jeff Coulter A Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution, 1750–1850 by Michael Ignatieff Museums of Madness: The Social Organization of Insanity in 19th Century England by Andrew Scull The Social Theory of Claude Lévi-Strauss by Alan Jenkins Cities Unlimited by Leslie Kilmartin and David C. Thorns Thrillers: Genisis and Structure of a Popular Genre by Jerry Palmer Social Systems and the Evolution of Action Theory by Talcott Parsons Action Theory and the Human Condition by Talcott Parsons Contemporary Society and the Growth of Leisure by Kenneth Roberts The Child and Death by Olle Jane Z. Sahler (ed.) Who Divorces? by Barbara Thornes and Jean Collard Sociolinguistic Patterns in British English by Peter Trudgill (ed.) Classes, Strata and Power by W. Wesolowski     

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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,     

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Young Workers from School to Work by D. N. Ashton and David Field. Discovering Suicide: Studies in the Social Organisation of Sudden Death by J. Maxwell Atkinson. Conflicts in the National Health Service by Keith Barnard and Kenneth Lee (eds.) Shop Stewards in Action: The Organization of Workplace Conflict and Accommodation by E. Batstone, I. Boraston and S. Frenkel Trade Unions and the Media by Peter Beharrell and Greg Philo (eds) Trade unionism in television by Peter Seglow The Worlds of Patrick Geddes: Biologist, Town Planner, Re-educator, Peace-warrior by Philip Boardman The Economic Identification of Social Classes by Guglielmo Carchedi Women Take Issue: Aspects Women's Subordination by Women's Studies Group, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies The Images of Occupational Prestige by A. P. M. Coxon and C. L. Jones Churches and Churchgoers: Patterns of Church Growth in the British Isles Since 1700 by Robert Currie, Alan Gilbert and Lee Horsley The Nineteenth-Century Woman: Her Cultural and Physical World by Sara Delamont and Lorna Duffin (eds.) Economic Studies: Contributions to the Critique of Economic Theory by David P. Levine Family Formation in an Age of Nascent Capitalism by David Levine An Introduction to the Sociology of Rural Development by Norman Long Modern Greece: Facets of Underdevelopment by Nicos P. Mouzelis Putting ‘Reality’ Together: BBC News by Philip Schlesinger The Social and Political Thought of Herbert Spencer by David Wiltshire     

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Books reviewed in this articles:
Immigration and the Work Force: Economic Consequences for the United States and Source Areas George J. Borjas and Richard B. Freeman, (eds)
Emotion in Organizations Stephen Fineman, (ed.)
Young People's Leisure and Lifestyles L.B. Hendry, J. Shucksmith, J.G. Love and A. Glendinning
Sex, Gay men and AIDS Peter M. Davies, Ford C.I. Hickson, Peter Weatherburn and Andrew J. Hunt
Essays on Women, Medicine and Health Ann Oakley
Sport in Social Development: Traditions, Transitions, and Transformations Alan G. Ingham and John W. Loy, (eds)
Constructing the Countryside Terry Marsden, Jonathan Murdoch, Philip Lowe, Richard Munton and Andrew Flynn
Reimagining the Nation Marjorie Ringrose and Adam J. Lerner, (eds)
Cultural Rights: Technology, Legality and Personality C. Lury
The Field of Cultural Production P. Bourdieu
Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays Gillian Rose
Emile Durkheim: Sociologist and Moralist Stephen J. Turner, (ed.)
Foucault and Feminism Lois McNay
Materialist Feminisms D. Landry and G. MacLean
Interpreting Qualitative Data: Methods for Analysing Talk, Text and Interaction David Silverman
Qualitative Data Analysis: A User-Friendly Guide for Social Scientists Ian Dey
Narrative Analysis Martin Cortazzi
Mozart: Portrait of a Genius N. Elias     

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Book reviewed in this article: Ideas of Difference: Social Spaces and the Labour of Division Kevin Hetherington and Rolland Munro (eds) The Ambiguity of Play Brian Sutton-Smith The Ambiguity of Play Brian Sutton-Smith Undisciplined Theory Gary Genosko Theorizing Childhood Allison James, Chris Jenks and Alan Prout The End of Masculinity John Maclnnes Death, Gender and Ethnicity David Field, Jenny Hockey and Neil Small (eds) The Problem of Trust Adam B. Seligman Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity Francis Fukuyama Democratization David Potter, David Goldblatt, Margaret Kiloh, Paul Lewis (eds) The Transformation of Democracy? Anthony McGrew (ed.)     

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Book reviewed in this articles: Pashukanis: Selected Writings on Marxism and the Law by Piers Beirne and Robert Sharlet (eds.) Hierarchy and Society: Anthropological Perspectives on Bureaucracy by Gerald M. Britan and Ronald Cohen (eds.). The Western Isles Today by Judith Ennew. Access to Power. Cross-National Studies of Women and Elites by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and Rose Laub Coser (eds.). Making the News by Peter Golding and Philip Elliott. The History of Myddle by Richard Gough, ed. Peter Razzell. The History of Myddle by Richard Gough, ed. David Hey. Social Darwinism and English Thought, by Greta Jones. Darwinian Impacts, by D. R. Oldroyd. White-Collar proletariat: The Industrial Behaviour of British Civil Servants, by Michael P. Kelly, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Henley Language, Ethnicity, and Education in Wales by Bud B. Khlief. White Collar Workers in America 1890-1940: A Social-Political History in International Perspective by Jürgen Kocka The Sociology of Literature: Applied Studies, Sociological Review Monograph 26, Edited by Diana Laurenson The Institutions of France Under The Absolute Monarchy 1578-1789 by R. Mousnier. Les Institutions de la France Sous La Monarchie Absolue Vol. 2. Les Organes de létat et la société. Die Herrschaft des Geselzes by Franz Neumann, Suhrkamp Verlag Class Conflict and Sectarianism, The Protestant Working Class and the Belfast Labour Movement, 1868-1920. by Henry Patterson Theories of Underdevelopment by Ian Roxborough The Transition from Capitalism to Socialism by J. D. Stephens Drinking and Alcoholism in Australia: A Power Relations Theory by Margaret Sargent. The State in Western Europe by Richard Scase (ed.) Knowledge, Ideology and the Politics of Schooling Towards a Marxist Analysis of Education by Rachel Sharp. Salvation and Protest by Roy Wallis     

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Book reviewed in this articles: Sociology: The State of the Art Tom Bottomore, Stefan Nowak and Magdalena Sokolowska (eds) A Treatise on Social Theory, Volume 1: The Methodology of Theory W.G. Runciman Contemporary Political Philosophy: Radical Studies Keith Graham (ed.) Capital and Politics Roger King (ed.) Supremaey and Subordination of Labour: The Hierarehy of Work in the Early Labour Movement Mike Holbrook-Jones The Development of the Labour Process in Capitalist Societies: A Comparative Study of the Transformation of Work Organisation in Britain, Japan and the USA Craig R. Littler Blue-Collar Workers and Politics: A French Paradox Richard A. DeAngelis Contemporary French Political Parties David S. Bell (ed.) The Family and Industrial Society C.C. Harris White-Collar Work K. Prandy, A. Stewart and R.M. Blackburn Industrial Relations in Britain G.S. Bain (ed.) Women in Control: Dilemmas of a Workers Co-operative Judy Wajeman An Economic History of Women in America Julie A. Matthaei Racial and Ethnic Competition Michael Banton Labour and Raeism Annie Phizacklea and Robert Miles Racism and Migrant Labour Robert Miles Contemporary Education Policy John Ahier and Michael Flude (eds) Solidarity: The Analysis of a Social Movement: Poland 1980–1981 Alain Touraine, François Dubet, Michel Wievorka, Jan Strzelcki The Rites of Rulers Christel Lane Political Anatomy of the Body: Medical Knowledge in Britain in the Twentieth Century David Armstrong Class, Sports, and Social Development Richard Gruneau Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word Walter J. Ong From Author to Reader Peter H. Mann