The Ethical Horizons of Postmodernity

Contested Knowledge: Social Theory in the Postmodern Era , by Steven Seidman. Postmodern Ethics , by Zygmunt Bauman.     

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Zygmunt Bauman In Search of Politics
Dick Pels Property and Power in Social Theory: A Study in Intellectual Rivalry
Frank Furedi The Silent War: Imperialism and the Changing Perception of Race
Mariam Fraser Identity Without Selfhood: Simone de Beauvoir and Bisexuality
Steve Jones Cybersociety 2.0: Revisiting Computer Mediated Communication and Community
Steven G. Jones Doing Internet Research: Critical Issues and methods for examining the Net
Hartley Dean with Margaret Melrose Poverty, Riches and Social Citizenship
Rebecca G. Adams and Graham Allan Placing Friendship in Context
Anthony King The End of the Terraces: The Transformation of English Football in the 1990s     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Bauman, Zygmunt In Search of Politics
Beynon, Huwand Glavanis, Pandeli Patterns of Social Inequality
Eisenstadt, S. N. Paradoxes of Democracy: Fragility, Continuity and Change
Gilbert, Nigel and Troitzsch, Klaus G. Simulation for the Social Scientist
Goldscheider, Frances and Goldscheider, Calvin The Changing Transition to Adulthood: Leaving and Returning Home
Heath, Anthony F., Breen, Richard and Whelan, Christopher T. (eds) Ireland North and South: Perspectives from Social Science
Nelson, Robert L. and Bridges, William P. Legalizing Gender Inequality: Courts, Markets, and Unequal Pay for Women in America
O'Connor, Julia. S., Orloff, Ann Shola and Shaver, Sheila States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States     

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Books reviewed in this article: Aldrich, Howard Organizations Evolving Bruce, Steve Choice and Religion: A Critique of Rational Choice Crouch, Colin Social Change in Western Europe Degenne, Alain and Forsé, Michel Introducing Social Networks Dunning, Eric Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilization Felstead, Alan and Jewson, Nick In Work at Home: Towards an Understanding of Homeworking Giulianotti, Richard Football – A Sociology of the Global Game Macnicol, John The Politics of Retirement in Britain, 1878–1948 Miller, Robert L. Researching Life Stories and Family Histories Moon, N. Opinion Polls: History, Theory and Practice Ray, Larry Theorizing Classical Sociology Smith, Dennis Zygmunt Bauman: Prophet of Postmodernity Taylor, Bridget and Thomson, Katarina (eds) Scotland and Wales: Nations Again?     

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Books review in this article:
Zygmunt Bauman . Prophet of Postmodernity Dennis Smith
Clubbing: Dancing, Ecstasy and Vitality Ben Malbon
Sociology Beyond Societies: Mobilities for the twenty-first century John Urry, Routledge
Experiments in Knowing: gender and method in the social sciences Ann Oakley, Cambridge
Another Modernity, a Different Rationality S. Lash
Learning Policy: Towards the Certified Society Patrick Ainley
Making Spaces - Citizenship and Difference in Schools Tuula Gordon
The Making of Citizens, Young People, News and Politics David Buckingham
Making Capitalism without Capitalists: Class formation and elite formation in post-communist Central Europe G. Eyal, I. Szelenyi, E. Townsley, (eds)
Making Sexual History Jeffrey Weeks
Material Culture in the Social World Tim Dant
The Games Ethic and Imperialism: Aspects of the Diffusion of an Ideal. (Series: Sport in the Global Society, 2, J.A. Mangan (ed.)
Ageing and Popular Culture Andrew Blaikie     

Book Review

Book reviewed in this article: Postmodern Ethics: Zygmunt Bauman Baroque Reason: The Aesthetics of Modernity: Christine Buci-Glucksmann translated by Patrick Damiller Foucault's New Domains: Mike Gane and Terry Johnson (eds) Sociology in Question: Pierre Bourdieu, trans. Richard Nice Max Weber's Comparative Historical Sociology: S. Kalberg. Psychoanalytic Theory: An Introduction: Anthony Elliott The Art of Conversation: Peter Burke Understanding Social Theory: Derek Layder Motherhood and Modernity: An Investigation into the Rational Dimension of Mothering: Christine Everingham Friendly Relations? Mothers and their daughters-in-law: P. Cotterill, Taylor-Francis Single Women: On the Margins?: Tuula Gordon, Macmillan, Basingstoke Erotics and Politics: Gay Male Sexuality, Masculinity and Feminism: Tim Edwards Understanding Poverty: P. Alcock, Macmillan, Basingstoke Social Change and the Experience of Unemployment: Duncan Gallie, et al. (eds) Dangerous Classes: The Underclass and Social Citizenship: Lydia Morris Masters and Servants: Class and Patronage in the Making of a Labour Organisation: Huw Beynon and Terry Austrin Inside European Identities: Ethnography in Western Europe Sharon Macdonald, (ed.) Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR 1923–34: George O. Liber Football, Violence and Social Identity: Richard Giulianotti, Norman Bonney and Mike Hepworth (eds) Natural Relations. Ecology, Animal Rights and Social Justice: Ted Benton, Verso The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain 1700–1900: Andrew Scull Time and Money: The Making of Consumer Culture: Gary Cross     

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Books reviewed in this article
The Death of Class , Jan Pakulski and Malcolm Waters
Social Change and the Middle Classes , Tim Butler and Mike Savage, (eds)
Practical Sociology: Post-empiricism and the Reconstruction of Theory and Application , Christopher G.A. Bryant
Environmental Sociology: A Social Constructionist Perspective , John A. Hannigan
Knowing Machines: Essays on Technical Change , Donald MacKenzie
Daniel Bell , Malcolm Waters
Canvases and Careers: Institutional Change in the French Painting World , Harrison C. White and Cynthia A. White
Theorizing Museums , Sharon Macdonald and Gordon Fyfe, (eds)
Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital , Sarah Thornton
Food, the Body and the Self , Deborah Lupton
Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity , J. Nauright, and T.J.L. Chandler, (eds)     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Hermeneutics and Social Science: Approaches to Understanding by Zygmunt Bauman Structure, Consciousness and History by Richard Harvey Brown and Stanford M. Lyman (eds.) The Politics of Legitimacy: Struggles in a Belfast Community by Frank Burton. City, Class and Power by Manuel Castells, translated by Elizabeth Lebas Australian Society. A Sociological Introduction by A. F. Davies, S. Encel and M. J. Berry (eds.) The Bard of Savagery: Thorstein Veblen and Modern Social Theory by John P. Diggins Groups and Individuals: Explanations in Social Psychology by Willem Doise Industry and Labour: Class Struggle at Work and Monopoly Capitalism by Andrew L. Friedman Illegitimacy, Sexuality and the Status of Women by Derek Gill Teachers, Ideology and Control: A Study in Urban Education by Gerald Grace The Liberation of Women: A Study in Patriarchy and Capitalism by Roberta Hamilton Renaissance Man by Agnes Heller The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism: Work, Unions and Politics in Sweden by W. Korpi Power and the State by Gary Littlejohn, Barry Smart, John Wakeford and Nina Yuval-Davies (eds. Marx: Sociology/Social Change/Capitalism by Donald McQuarie (ed) Marx's Theory of Politics by John M. Maguire The Rules of Disorder by P. Marsh, E. Rosser and R. Harré The Dilemmas of Contemporary Religion by David Martin A General Theory of Secularization by David Martin Tragic Realism and Modem Society: Studies in the Sociology of the Novel by John Orr Karl Mannheim's Sociology of Knowledge by A. P. Simonds Ways of the Hand: The Organization of Improvised Conduct by David Sudnow The Personnel Managers: A Study in the Sociology of Work and Employment by Tony J. Watson Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales by Glyn Williams (ed.) The American Ideology: Science, Technology and Organization as Modes of Rationality in Advanced Industrial Societies by H. T. Wilson The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions by William Julius Wilson     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Aramis, Or the Love of Technology Bruno Latour
Postmodernity and its Discontents Zygmunt Bauman
Key Debates in Anthropology Tim Ingold
Postcolonial African Philosophy. A Critical Reader Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze (ed.)
Sociology on the Menu. An Invitation to the Study of Food and Society Alan Beardsworth and Teresa Keil
Consumption, Food and Taste. Culinary Antinomies and Commodity Culture Alan Warde
Governance of the Consuming Passions: A History of Sumptuary Law Alan Hunt
Consumption Matters Stephen Edgell, Kevin Hetherington and Alan Warde, (eds)
The Unmanageable Consumer: Contemporary Consumption and its Fragmentation Yiannis Gabriel and Tim Lang
Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference David Harvey
Spatial Formations Nigel Thrift
The Reinvention of Politics: Rethinking Modernity in the Global Social Order Ulrich Beck
The Dynamics of Conflict in Northern Ireland Joseph Ruane and Jennifer Todd
Racism and Society John Solomos and Les Back
The Place of Men in Changing Family Cultures Geoff Dench
The Erotic in Sports Allen Guttmann
Boxing and Society: An International Analysis John Sugden
Unnecessary Suffering: Managing Market Utopia Maurice Glasman     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Inventing Our Selves: Psychology, Power and Personhood Nikolas Rose,
Constructing Identities: The Social, The Nonhuman and Change Mike Michael,
The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power Pierre Bourdieu,
Cultures of Internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living Bodies Rob Shields, (ed.),
Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment Mike Featherstone and Roger Burrows, (eds),
Feminism and Criminology Ngaire Naffine,
Crimes of Style: Urban Graffiti and the Politics of Criminality Jeff Ferrell,
Imagining Cities Sallie Westwood and John Williams (eds),
Consumer Culture and Modernity Don Slater,
Popular Music in Theory: An Introduction Keith Negus,
Football, Nationality and the State Vic Duke and Liz Crolley,
Changing Forms of Employment: Organisations, Skills and Gender Rosemary
Varieties of Transition: The East European and East German Experience Claus Offe,
The Rise and Fall of State Socialism: Industrial Society and the Socialist State David Lane,
Jean Baudrillard: A Study in Cultural Metaphysics Charles Levin,     

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Book reviewed in this article: Custom and Conflict in British Society Ronald Frankenberg (ed.) Social Class and the Division of Labour: Essays in Honour of Ilya Neustadt Anthony Giddens and Gavin Mackenzie (eds) The Sociological Domain P. Besnard (ed.) The Rules of Sociological Method E. Durkheim Memories of Class: The pre-history and after-life of class Zygmunt Bauman Problems in Class Analysis G. Carchedi, Routledge&Kegan Paul Capital Labour and the Middle Classes Nicholas Abercrombie and John Urry The New Working Class? White Collar Workers and Their Organisations: A Reader Richard Hyman and Robert Price (eds) The Upper Classes: Property and Privilege in Britain John Scott Conflict and Compromise, Class Eormation in English Society, 1830-1914 Dennis Smith The English and Colonial Bars in the Nineteenth Century Daniel Durman, Croom Helm State, Class and Recession S. Clegg, G. Dow and P. Boreham (eds) Capitalist Democracy in Britain Ralph Miliband Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth-Century Britain Victor Bailey (ed.) Conflict, Polities and the Urban Seene K.R. Cox and R.J. Johnson Critical Readings in Planning Theory Chris Paris (ed.) Political Attitudes in America, Formation and Change Paul R. Abramson Anti-Nuelear Protest: The Opposition to Nuclear Energy in France Alain Touraine Soeiology and the School: An Interactionist Viewpoint Peter Woods Literary Theory: An Introduction Terry Eagleton Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art Janet Wolff The Jack Roller at Seventy The Jack Roller and Jon Snodgrass with Gilbert Geis, James F. Short, Jnr and Solomon Kobrin     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Time and Social Theory Barbara Adam
Psychoanalysis and Social Theory: The Limits of Sociology Ian Craib
Civilization: Contents, Discontents, Malcontents and Other Essays in Social Theory Stanford M. Lyman
Ideology and Modern Culture John B. Thompson
The Methodology of Herbert Blumer: Critical Interpretation and Repair Kenneth Baugh Jr
The Fashioned Self Joanne Finkelstein
The Political and Social Theory of Max Weber Wolfgang J. Mommsen
Reading Weber Keith Tribe (ed.), Routledge
The Sexuality of Organisation Jeff Hearn, Deborah L. Sheppard
The Social Mobility of Women: Beyond Male Mobility Models Geoff Payne and Pamela Abbott, (eds)
Battered Women as Survivors Lee Ann Hoff
Family, Economy and Community C.C. Harris, (ed.)
Enterprise Culture Russell Keat and Nicholas Abercrombie, (eds)
Making Their Way: Education, Training and the Labour Market in Canada and Britain David Ashton and Graham Lowe, (eds).
Images of Youth: Age, Class, and the Male Youth Problem 1880–1920 Harry Hendrick
Football on Trial: Spectator Violence and Development in the Football World Patrick Murphy, John Williams and Eric Dunning
The Cambridge Social History of Britain 1750–1950, Volume 1, Regions and Communities F.M.L. Thompson, (ed.)
The Cambridge Social History of Britain 1750–1950, Volume 3, Social Agencies and Institutions F.M.L. Thompson, (ed.)
The Dark Side of Europe: The Extreme Right Today Geoffrey Harris
Resistance and Control in Pakistan A.D. Ahmed
The Soviet Union: A Biographical Dictionary Archie Brown, (ed.)     

Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
BARRY D. ADAM and ALAN SEARS, Experiencing HIV: Personal, Family and Work Relationships.
MARY LOUISE ADAMS, The Trouble with Normal: Postwar Youth and the Making of Heterosexuality.
RICHARD ALTSCHULER (ed.), The Living Legacy of Marx, Durkheim & Weber: Applications and Analyses of Classical Sociological Theory by Modern Social Scientists.
ABIGAIL BAKAN and DAIVA STASIULIS (eds.), Not One of the Family: Foreign Domestic Workers in Canada.
JON CAULFIELD and LINDA PEAKE (eds.), City Lives and City Forms: Critical Research and Canadian Urbanism.
P atricia M. E vans and G erd A R. W ekerle (eds.), Women and the Canadian Welfare State: Challenges and Change.
BENT FLYVBJERG, Power and Rationality: Democracy in Practice.
J. BARRY GURDIN, Amidé I Friendship: An Investigation into Cross-Cultural Styles in Canada and the United States.
ROBERTA HAMILTON, Gendering the Vertical Mosaic: Feminist Perspectives on Canadian Society.
THOMAS M. McKENNA, Muslim Rulers and Rebels: Everyday Politics and Armed Separatism in the Southern Philippines.
ANDY MERRIFIELD and ERIK SWYNGEDOUW (eds.), The Urbanization of Injustice.
ROD MICHALKO, The Mystery of the Eye and the Shadow of Blindness.
RICHARD MORRIS, Sinners, Lovers, and Heroes: An Essay on Memorializing in Three American Cultures.
DIANE SINGERMAN and HOMAHOODFAR(eds.), Deuelopment Change and Gender in Cairo: A View from the Household.
LESLIE PAUL THIELE, Thinking Politics: Perspectives in Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Political Theory.     

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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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Book reviewed in this article:
Sociology and its Publics: The Forms and Fates of Disciplinary Organization T.C. Halliday and M. Janowitz (eds)
Social Evolutionism: A Critical History Stephen K. Sanderson
History and Social Theory Peter Burke
Time: An Essay Norbert Elias
Postmodernity Barry Smart
Social Movements: The Politics of Moral Protest Jan Pakulski
A Communitarian Defense of Liberalism: Emile Durkheim and contemporary Social Theory M.S. Cladis
Pierre Bourdieu Richard Jenkins
Social Research and Social Reform Colin Crouch and Anthony Heath, (eds)
Prospects for Democracy: North, South, East and West David Held, (ed.)
The Elite Connection: Problems and Potential of Western Democracy Eva Etzioni-Halevy
Lives in Trust: The Fortunes of Dynastic Families in Late Twentieth Century America George E. Marcus with Peter D. Hall
The Politics of State Expansion: War, State and Society in Twentieth-Century Britain James E. Cronin
The Development of Industrial Society in Ireland J.H. Goldthorpe and C.T. Whelan (eds)
Social Theory for Action: How Individuals and Organisations Learn to Change William Foote Whyte
Sociological Perspectives on Modern Accountancy Robin Roslender
Professions and Patriarchy Anne Witz
White, Male and Middle Class: Explorations in Feminism and History Catherine Hall
Shaping up to Womanhood: Gender and Girls' Physical Education Sheila Scraton
Symbolic Interaction and Cultural Studies Howard S. Becker and Michael M. McCall, (eds)
Fashion, Culture and Identity Fred Davis
Fields of Vision: Landscape Imagery and National Identity in England and the United States Stephen Daniels
The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form Through History Spiro Kostoff
Television and the Drama of Crime: Moral Tales and the Place of Crime in Public Life Richard Sparks
Writers in Prison Ioan Davies
Death, Dying and Bereavement Donna Dickenson and Malcolm Johnson, (eds)     

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Books reviewed:
Charles Tilly, Durable Inequality
Niklas Luhmann, Observations on Modernity
M. O'Brien and S. Penna, Theorising Welfare Enlightenment and Modern Society
Kim Humphrey, Shelf Life: Supermarkets and the Changing Cultures of Consumption
Janet Chan, Changing Police Culture: Policing in a Multicultural Society
Peter C. Jupp and Glennys Howarth (eds), The Changing Face of Death. Historical Accounts of Death and Disposal
Charles Antaki and Sue Widdicomb (eds), Identities in Talk
Millsom Henry (ed.), IT in the Social Sciences: A Student's Guide to the Information and Communications Technologies
V. Ruggiero, N. South and Ian Taylor (eds), The New European Criminology: Crime and Social Order in Europe     

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The Book reviews in this article. A Rationalist Methodology for the Social Sciences David Sylvan and Barry Glassner Positivism in Social Theory and Research Christopher G.A. Brynt, Macmillan Wittgenstein: A Social Theory of Knowledge D. Bloor, Macmillan Marxism and Historical Writing paul Q. Hirst, Routledge & Kegan Paul Bribes J.T. Noonan. Jr. Collier-Macmillan Ambition and Privilege. The Social Tropes of Elizabethan Courtesy Theory. Frank Whigham Big Structures, Large processes, Huge Comparisons Charles Tilly The idea of the Modern State Gregor McLennan. David Held and Stuart Hall (eds). Visions of Social Control Stanley Cohen Polity Press. Controlling the Constable: Police Accountability in England and Wales Tony Jefferson and Roger Grimhaw, Fredrick Muller. Criminal Women Pat Carlen Diana Christina. Jenny Hicks, Josie O'Dwyer and Chris Tehaikovsky. Capitalism, Consumption and Needs Edmond Preteceille and Jean-Peirre Terrail. Social Classes in Marxist Theory Allen Cottrell, Routledge & Kegan Paul Social Inequality and Class Radicalism in France and Britain Duncan Gallie Les Dirigeants paysans Sylvain Maresea. Poor Britain Joanna Mack and Stewart Lansley, Allen & Unwin Women in England 1870-1950: Sexual Divisions and Social Change Jane Lewis. Wheatsheaf Bools The incorporated Wife Hilary Callan and Shirley Ardener (eds.) Gender and Generation Angela McRobbie and Mica Nava (eds.) Cinema and Technology: Image, Sound, Colour Steve Neale     

Book Reviews

Bottoms, Bette L., Bull Kovera, Margaret and Mcauliff, Bradley D. Children, Social Science and the Law
Davie, Grace Europe: The Exceptional Case; Parameters of Faith in the Modern World
Flyvbjerg, Bent, Bruzelius, Nils and Rothengatter, Werner Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition
Boddy, David Managing Projects. Building and Leading the Team
Goldthorpe, John On Sociology - Numbers, Narratives and the Integration of Research and Theory
Goodchild, Philip Capitalism and Religion: The Price of Piety
Hills, John, Le Grand, Julian and Piachaud, David (eds) Understanding Social Exclusion
Joseph, Jonathan Hegemony: A Realist Analysis
Jonsson, J. O. and Mills, Colin (eds) Cradle to Grave: Life-Course Change in Modern Sweden
Allan, Graham and Jones, Gill (eds) Social Relations and the life Course
Misa, Thomas J., Brey, Philip and Feenberg, Andrew (eds) Modernity and Technology
Robertson, Robbie The Three Waves of Globalization: A History of a Developing Global Consciousness
Smith, Denis Norbert Elias and Modern Social Theory     

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Books reviewed:
James Good and Irving Velody (eds), The Politics of Postmodernity
Richard Kilminster, The Sociological Revolution. From the Enlightenment to the Global Age
Stephen Howe, Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes
Kevin Hetherington, Expressions of Identity: Space, Performance, Politics
Judy Wajcman, Managing like a Man: Women and Men in Corporate Management
Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch, The Golem at Large: What You Should Know About Technology
Ian Hutchby and Robin Wooffitt, Conversation Analysis: Principles, Practices and Applications
David Silverman, Harvey Sacks: Social Science and Conversation Analysis
Jose Alvarado and John Creedy, Population Aging, Migration and Social Expenditure
Maria R. Lowe, Women of Steel: Female Bodybuilders and the Struggle for Self Definition
Anthony Elliot (ed.), Freud 2000
Zygmunt Bauman, Globalization: the Human Consequences