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Book reviewed in this article:
Frontiers of Social Theory: The New Synthesis , edited by George Ritzer. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990, 434 pages, $49.50, hardback, $19.50, paper.
Courts and the Poor , by Christopher E. Smith. Chicago: Nelson Hall, Inc., Publishers, 1991, 177 pages, $26.95, hardbound, $15.95, paper.
Social Structure and Self-Direction , by Melvin L. Kohn and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1990, 301 pages, $39.95, hardback.
Organizations: Structures, Processes, and Outcomes , by Richard H. Hall. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1991, 5th ed., 344 pages, $31.35, hardback.
Toward an Ethic Of Higher Education , by Mortimer R. Kadish. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991, 188 pages, $29.50, hardback.
Of Human Bonding: Parent-Child Relations Across the Life Course , by Alice S. Rossi and Peter H. Rossi. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 1990, 542 pages, $62.95 cloth, $39.95 paper.     

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Max Weber and His Contemporaries . Wolfgang J. Mommsen and Juergen Osterhammel, editors. London: Allen & Unwin, 1987, 591 pages, $50.00, cloth
Max Weber and Political Commitment: Science, Politics, and Personality . Edward Bryan Portis. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987, 246 pages, $29.95, hardback.
Sociology: New Directions . Michael Haralambos, editor. Ormskirk, Lancashire: Causeway Press, Ltd., 1985, 675 pages, $22.25 hardbound, $11.75 softbound.
Mapping the Dynamics of Science and Technology . Michel Gallon, John Law and Arie Rip, editors. London: The Macmillan Press Ltd., 1986, 238 pages, $39.50, hardback.
Constructing the Political Spectacle . Murray Edelman. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988, 137 pages, $7.95, paper.
The Search for a Methodology of Social Science: Durkheim, Weber, and the Nineteenth-Century Problem of Cause, Probability and Action . Stephen P. Turner. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1986, 251 pages, hardback.     

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A Social-Contract Theory of Organizations . Michael Keeley. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988, 245 pp. plus references and index.
Disturbing the Nest: Family Change and Decline in Modern Societies . David Popenoe. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1988, 390 pages, $49.95, hardback, $24.95, cloth.
Advancing Communication Science: Merging Mass and Interpersonal Processes . Edited by Robert P. Hawkins, John M. Wieman, and Suzanne Pingree. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1988, 312 pp., paperback.
On the Take: From Petty Crooks to Presidents , 2nd ed. William Chambliss. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988, 301 pages.
Methodology and Epistemology for Social Science . Donald T. Campbell. Selected papers edited by E. Samuel Overman. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988, 609 pages, $62.50, cloth.
Technology and Justice . George Grant. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986, 133 pages, paperback.
Emile Durkheim and the Reformation of Sociology . Stjepan G. Mestrovic. Totawa, NJ: Rowan and Littlefield, 1988, 156 pp.
Certainties and Doubts: Collected Papers, 1962–1985 . George Caspar Homans. New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1987, 420 pages, $34.95, hardback.
Strong Mothers, Weak Wives . Miriam Johnson. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988, 347 pp.
Jürgen Habermas . Michael Pusey. London: Tavistock Publications, 1987, 128 pages, paperback; and New York: Routledge, 1988, $22.50, cloth, Can. $31.50; $8.95, paperback, Can. $13.00.
The World We Created at Hamilton High . Gerald Grant. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988, 2825 pages, $24.95, hardback     

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The State: Its Nature, Development, and Prospects . Gianfranco Poggi. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1990, 214 pages, $29.50, hardback, $9.95, paper.
The Mexican Urban Household: Organizing for Self-Defense . Henry A. Selby, Arthur D. Murphy, and Stephen A. Lorenzen; with Ignacio Cabrera, Aida Castaneda, and Ignacio Ruiz Love. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990, 256 pages, $27.50, hardback.
Corporate Society: Class, Property, and Contemporary Capitalism . John McDermott. Boulder: Westview Press, 1991, 208 pages, $48.50, hardback.
Commonplaces: Community Ideology and Identity in American Culture . David M. Hummon. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990, 236 pages, $49.50 hardback, $16.95 paper.     

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Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life , by Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton. New York: Harper & Row, 1985, 355 pages, $8.95 softcover.
The Good Society , by Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991, 347 pages, $25.00 hardcover.
Acts of Compassion: Caring for Others and Helping Ourselves , by Robert Wuthnow, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991, $25.00 hardcover
The Consequences of Modernity , by Anthony Giddens. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1990, 186 pages, $9.95 softcover, $29.50 hardcover.
A Future for the American Economy: The Social Market , by Severyn T. Bruyn. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991, 362 pages, $60.00 hardback.
Work in the Fast Lane: Flexibility, Division of Labor, and Inequality in High-Tech Industries , by Glenna Colclough and Charles M. Tolbert II. Ithaca, NY: State University of New York Press, 1992, 157 pages, $16.95, paper.
Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty and the Underclass , by Christopher Jencks. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992,280 pages, $27.95 hardback.
They Call Her Pastor: A New Role for Catholic Women , by Ruth A. Wallace. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992, 204 pages, $44.50 (est.) hardback, $14.95 (est.) paper.     

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The Scientific Attitude . Frederick Grinnell. Boulder: Westview Press, 1987, 141 pages, $29.50, hardback; $13.50, paperback.
Feminism Within the Science and Health Care Professions: Overcoming Resistance . Sue V. Rosser. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1988, 168 pages, flexicover
The Transformation of Old Age Security: Class and Politics in the American Welfare State . Jill Quadagno. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988, 253 pages, $27.50, hardback.
Invisible Trauma: The Psychological Effects of Invisible Environmental Contaminants . Henry M. Vyner, M. D. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1988, 219 pages.
Women and Political Conflict: Portraits of Struggle in Times of Crisis . Edited by Rosemary Ridd and Helen Callaway. New York: New York University Press, 1987, 246 pages.
The Post-Industrial Utopians . Boris Frankel. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1987, 303 pages, $35.00, cloth, $12.50, paper.
History of Criminal Justice . Herbert A. Johnson. Cincinnati, OH: Anderson Publishing Company, 1988, 338 pages, hardback     

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Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action , by Jörgen Habermas. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991, 228 pages, $19.95, hardback.
Models and Interpretations: Selected Essays , by J. A. Barnes. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1990, 273 pages, $47.50, hardback.
Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community , Elijah Anderson. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago, 1990, 276 pages, $19.95, cloth.
Status Inequality: The Self in Culture , by George A. De Vos and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications, Inc. 1990, 311 pages, $39.95, hardback.     

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Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography . John Van Maanen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988, 173 pages, $25.00 hardback, $7.95 paper.
Professional Powers: A Study of the Institutionalization of Formal Knowledge . Eliot Freidson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988, 241 pages, $12.95 paperback.
Local Heroes: The Rebirth of Heroism in America . Bill Berkowitz. Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath and Company, 1987, 350 pages, $17.95 hardback.
Moral Theory and Capital Punishment . Tom Sorell. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988, 172 pages, paperback.
Working but Poor: America's Contradiction . Sar A. Levitan and Isaac Shapiro. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987, 142 pages.
Social Control of the Drinking Driver . Michael D. Laurence, John R. Snortum, and Franklin E. Zimring, editors. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988, 452 pages, softback.
The Faces of Homlessness . Marjorie Hope and James Young. Lexington: D. C. Heath and Company, 1986, 318 pages, paperback.
Ultimate Penalties: Capital Punishment, Life Imprisonment, Physical Torture . Leon Shaskolsky Sheleff. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 1987, xi + 492 pages, $27.50.     

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The New Conservatism: Cultural Criticism and the Historians' Debate , by Jurgen Habermas. Ed. and trans. by Shierry Weber Nicholsen. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990, 200 pages, $19.95, hardback.
Deceptive Distinctions: Sex, Gender and the Social Order , by Cynthia B. Fuchs Epstein. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988, 300 pages, $25.00, hardback.
Medical Work in America: Essays on Health Care , by Eliot Freidson. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989, 274 pages, $30.00, cloth, $15.95, paper.
Philosophy of Science and Its Discontents , by Steve Fuller. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989, 188 pages, $32.95, hardcover.
Friendship: Developing a Sociological Perspective , by Graham Allan. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989, 174 pages, $16.95, hardback.
The Urban Web: Politics, Policy, and Theory , by Lawrence J.R. Herson and John M. Bolland. Chicago, IL: Nelson Hall Publishers, 1990, 512 pages, $22.95, paper, $29.95, hardback.
The Real Disaster is Above Ground: A Mine Fire and Social Conflict , by J. Stephen Kroll-Smith and Stephen Robert Couch. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1990, 200 pages, $24.00, hardback.
The Power Elite and the State: How Policy is Made in America , by G. William Domhoff. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1990, 315 pages, $47.95, hardback, $19.95, paper.
Locality and Inequality: Farm and Industry Structure and Socioeconomic Conditions , by Linda M. Lobao. Albany, NY: The State University of New York Press, 1990, 291 pages, $49.50, hardback, $14.95, paper.     

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The Economic Emergence of Women . Barbara R. Bergmann. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1986.
The Responsive Workplace: Employers and a Changing Labor Force . Sheila B. Kamerman and Alfred J. Kahn. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.
Gender at Work: The Dynamics Of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II . Ruth Milkman. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
Patriarchy at Work: Patriarchal and Capitalist Relations in Employment . Sylvia Walby. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986.
From Boy to Man: From Delinquency to Crime . Marvin E. Wolfgang, Terence P. Thornberry, and Robert M. Figlio. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1987, 221 pp.
The Politics of Environmental Mediation . Douglas J. Amy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987, 255 pages, $30.00, hardback.
The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor . Andrew Abbott. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988, 435 pp.
National Literacy Campaigns: Historical and Comparative Perspectives , edited by Robert F. Arnove and Harvey J. Graff. New York: Plenum Press, 1987, 322 pages, hardback.
Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, Volume 10 , edited by Michael Tonry and Norval Morris. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988, 343 pages, $27.50 cloth.
The Scientific Attitude . Frederick Grinnell. Boulder & London: Westview Press, 1987, 141 pp, $34.00 cloth, $14.95 paper.     

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The Second Billion: Population and Family Planning in China . Penny Kane. New York: Penguin Books, 1987, viii + 264 pages, $7.95.
Establishing Agreement: An Analysis of Proposal-Acceptance Sequences . Hanneke Houtkoop. Dordrecht-Holland: Foris Publications, 1987, 204 pages.
Plant Closings: International Context and Social Costs . Carolyn C. Perrucci, Robert Perrucci, Dena B. Targ, and Harry R. Targ. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1988, 193 pages, $38.95 (hardcover); $15.95 (paperback).
Political Theory and Modernity . William E. Connolly. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988, 196 pages, hardback.
Making Mondragon: The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex . William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte. Ithaca: ILR Press, 1988, 315 pages, paperback.
Speaking of Friendship, Middle-Class Women and Their Friends . Helen Gouldner and Mary Simmons Strong. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987, 185 pages, hardback
The Social Construction of Technological System . Edited by Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor Pinch. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987, 405 pp., $35.00.
Judging the Jury . Valerie P. Hans and Neil Vidmar. New York: Plenum Press, 1986, 283 pages, $17.98, hardback.
The Flight from Ambiguity: Essays in Social and Cultural Thory . Donald N. Levine. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, July 15, 1988, 248 pages, $12.95, paperback.
The State and The City . Ted Robert Gurr and Desmond S. King. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1987, x + 242 pp, $35.00, hardback, $14.95, paperback.     

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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.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Who is Black? One Nation's Definition, by F. James Davis. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991, 204 pages, $25.00, hardback, $12.50, paperback. The Social Mobility of Women: Beyond Male Mobility Models, edited by Geoff Payne and Pamela Abbott. London: The Falmer Press, 1990, 193 pages, $49.00 hardback, $25.00 paperback. Group Work with Older Adults, by Ronald W. Toseland. New York: New York University Press, 1990, 221 pages, $35.00, hardcover. Social Studies of Science, by Bernard Barber. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Transaction Publishers, 1990, 278 pages, $34.95, hardback. Kamikaze Biker: Parody and Anomy in Affluent Japan, by Ikuya Sato. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991, 277 pages, $34.95, hardback. Serial Murderers and Their Victim, by Eric W. Hickey. Pacific Grove, Calif.: Brooks/Kole, 1991, 265 pages, $14.50, paperback. Metatheorizing in Sociology, by George Ritzer. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1991, 362 pages, $49.95, hardback.     

Marxism,Post-Marxism,or Post-Post-Marxism?

Book reviewed in this article:
Marxism in the Postmodern Age: Confronting the New World Order , edited by Antonio Callari, Stephen Cullenberg, and Carole Biewener. New York: Guilford, 1995, 560 pages. Cloth $49.95; paper $19.95.
After Marxism , by Ronald Aronson. New York: Guilford, 1995, 321 pages. Paper $18.95.
The Semiotic Self : by Norbert Wiley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994, 250 pages. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $19.95.
Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of'Cosmetic Surgery , by Kathy Davis. New York and London: Routledge, 1995, 206 pages. Cloth $55.00; paper $16.95.
Fear of Crime: Interpreting Victimization Risk , by Kenneth F. Ferraro. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995, 179 pages. Paper, $19.95
Auto Opium: A Social History of American Automobile Design , by David Gartman. London and New York: Routledge, 1994, 264 pages. Paper, $17.95.
Berefi of Reason: On the Decline of Social Thought and Prospects for Its Renewal , by Eugene Halton. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995, 304 pages. Cloth, $39.95.
A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882–1930 , by Stewart E. Tolnay and E. M. Beck. University of Illinois Press, 1995. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945–1960 , by Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994, 307 pages. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $16.95.
The Executive Way: Conflict Management in Corporations, by Calvin Morrill . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Cloth, $29.95.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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Artificial Experts: Social Knowledge and Intelligent Machines , by H. M. Collins. Cambrige, MA and London, England: MIT Press, 1990, 266 + XIII pages, $19.95, hardback.
Images of Issues: Typifying Contemporary Social Problems , edited by Joel Best. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1989, 258 pages, $34.95, hardback, $16.95, paper.
An End to Shame: Shaping Our Next Sexual Revolution , by Ira L. Reiss with Harriet M. Reiss. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1990, 287 pages, $21.95, hardback.
Structures of Power and Constraint: Papers in Honor of Peter M. Blau , edited by Craig Calhoun, Marshall W. Meyer, and W. Richard Scott. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, 495 pages, $65.00, hardback.
Social Entropy Theory , by Kenneth D. Bailey. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990, 310 pages, $54.50, cloth, $17.95, paper.
Sociological Theories in Progress: New Formulations , by Joseph Berger, Morris Zelditch and Bo Anderson (eds.). Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1989, 416 pages, $42.00.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Ethnomethodology and the Human Sciences. Graham Button (ed.). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Text in Context: Contributions to Ethnomethodology. Graham Watson and Robert M. Seiler (eds.). Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992. Shooting Dope: Career Patterns of Hard-Core Heroin Users, by Charles E. Faupel. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1991, 220 pages, $27.95, hardcover. Capitalist Development and Democracy, by Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Evelyne Huber Stephens, and John D. Stephens. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, 387 pages, $45.00, hardback, $19.95, paper. What Does the Lord Require? How American Christians Think about Economic Justice, by Stephen Hart. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, 251 pages, $24.95, hardback. Understanding Everyday Racism: An Interdisciplinary Theory, by Philomena Essed. Newberry Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1991, 322 pages, $44.00, cloth. The Search for Rational Drug Control, by Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, 219 pages, $24.95, hardback. Micropolitics of Knowledge: Communication and Indirect Control in Workgroups, by Emmanuel Lazega. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992, 149 pages, $37.95, hardback, $16.95, paperback. Studying Collective Action, Sage Modern Politics Series Volume 30, sponsored by the European Consortium for Political Research/ECPR, edited by Mario Diani and Ron Eyerman. London: Sage, 1992, 263 pages, $60.00, hardback.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
The People in the Playground . Iona Opie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, 240 pages. Cloth, $60.00.
Gender Play . Barrie Thorne. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993, 237 pages. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $12.95.
Ideal Citizens: The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement . James Max Fendrich. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1993, 202 pages. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $16.95.
The Shadow of Dionysus: A Contribution to the Sociology of the Orgy . Michel Maffesoli. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993, 167 pages. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $16.50.
Jones's Minimal: Low-Wage Labor in the United States . David Griffith. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993, xvii, 266 pages. Cloth, $44.50; paper, $14.95.
The Politics of Pensions: A Comparative Analysis of Britain, Canada, and the United States, 1880–1940 . Ann Shola Orloff. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1993, 381 pages. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.95.
Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France . Robert A. Nye. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 316 pages.
Adolescence: An Anthropological Inquiry . Alice Schlegel and Herbert Barry III. New York: Free Press, 1991, 263 pages. Cloth, $29.95.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Women of Academe: Outsiders in the Sacred Grove . Nadya Aisenberg and Mona Harrington. Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1988, 207 pages, $30.00 hardback, $10.95 paper.
Analyzing Field Reality . Jaber Gubrium. Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1988, 79 pages.
Natural Women, Cultured Men: A Feminist Perspective on Sociological Theory . R. A. Sydie. New York: New York University Press, 1987, 268 pages.
Critical Theory Since 1965 . Edited by Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle. Tallahassee, FL: Florida State University Press, 1986, 891 pages, $29.95 paper.
The Age of Science . David Knight. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988, $14.95 paper
Psychology and the Critical Revolution . Aton G. Hardy. Guilderland, NY: James Publications, 1988, 145 pages.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings, by Michael Lynch and David Bogen. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996, 348 pages. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $18.95
The Lynching of Language: Gender, Politics, and Power in the Hill-Thomas Hearings, by Sandra L. Ragan, Dianne G. Bystrom, Lynda Lee Kaid, and Christina S. Beck (eds.). Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 1996, 293 pages. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $15.95.
"Media events are ceremonial hybrids: part spectacles, part festivals, part texts, part performances." (Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz in Durkheimian Sociology: Cultural Studies, ed. by Jeffrey C. Alexander, 1986, p. 166)
New Social Movements in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis, by Hanspe-ter Kriesi, Ruud Koopmans, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and Marco G. Giugni. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995, 344 pages. Paper, $21.95.
Leading Sectors and World Powers: The Coevolution of Global Economics and Global Politics, by George Modelski and William R. Thompson. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1996, 263 pages. Cloth, $29.95.
The Agony of Education: Black Students at White Colleges and Universities, by Joe R. Feagin, Hernan Vera, and Nikitah Imani. New York: Routledge Press, 1996, 22 pages. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $17.95.
The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture and Deviance at NASA, by Diane Vaughan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, 575 pages. Cloth, $24.95.
The Myth of Social Action, by Colin Campbell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, 199 pages. Cloth, $49.95.
Organizing for Equality: The Evolution of Women's and Racial-Ethnic Organizations in America, 1955–1985, by Debra C. Minkoff. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995, 176 pages. Cloth, $48.00.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Sociology Responds to Fascism , edited by Stephen P. Turner and Dirk Käsler. London and New York: Routledge, 1992, x + 261 pages. Cloth, $69.95.
The Professionalization of Psychology in Nazi Germany , by Ulfried Geuter. Translated by Richard J. Holmes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, xxi + 335 pages. Cloth, $54.95.
Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance , by Guido Ruggiero. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 286 pages. Paper, $18.95.
Family, Church, and Market: A Mennonite Community in the Old and the New Worlds , Z850-Z930, by Royden K. Loewen. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993, 370 pages. Cloth, $42.50; paper, $19.95.
A History of Race Relations Research: First Generation Recollections , edited by John H. Stanfield 11. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1993, 286 pages. Cloth, $46.00; paper, $23.95.
Full Pews and Empty Altars: Demographics of the Priest Shortage in United States Catholic Dioceses , by Richard A. Schoenherr and Lawrence A. Young, with the collaboration of Tsan-Yuang Cheng. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1993, 460 pages. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $19.95.
Money and the Modern Mind , by Gianfranco Poggi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993, 228 pages. Cloth, $30.00.