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Book reviewed in this article: Organisation and Bureaucracy: An Analysis of Modern Theories by Nicos Mouzelis. Beyond Marx and Tito: Theory and Practice in Yugoslav Socialism by Sharon Zukin. Rehabilitation and Deviance by Philip Bean. Durkheim on Religion: A Selection of Readings with Bibliographies and Introductory Remarks by W. S. F. Pickering (ed). Agrarian Co-operatives in Peru: A Sodo-Econormc Survey by Peter Buchkr. Varieties of Residential Experience fay J. Tizard, I. Sinclair and R. V. G. Clarke (eds.) Authority and Organization in the Secondary School by Elizabeth Richardson. Education and Social Control: A Stitdy in Progressive Primary Education by R. Sharp and A. Green. Ideology and Social Welfare by Vic George and Paul Wilding. Paradigms and Fairy Tales: An Introduction to the Science of Meanings, Vols. I and 11 by Julience Ford. Methods of Social Study by Sidney and Beatrice Webb. Reprinted with an introduction by T. H. Marshall Who Rules The Universities? An Essay in Class Amdysis by David N. Smith. Slamming the Door by Robert Moore and Tina Wallace. The Female Offender by Annette M. Brodsky (ed.) The Sociology of the Third World: Disparity and Involvement by J. E. Goldthorpe. The Foreman: Aspects of Task and Structure by David Dunkerley. Madness and Morals: Ideas on Insanity in the Nineteenth Century by Vieda Skultans. Dilemmas of Discourse: Controversies about the Sociological Inter-pretation of Language by Anthony Wootton. Whatever happened to equality by Iohn Vaizey (ed.) The Drama of Social Reality by Stanford M. Lytnan and Marvin B. Scott. The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism by Daniel Bell. Social Psychology for Sociologists by David Field (ed.) The Highest Education: A Study of Graduate Education in Britain by Ernest Rudd. Religious Movements in Contemporary America by Irving I. Zaietsky and Mark P. Leone (eds.) Socialisation to Old Age by Irving Rosow.     

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Book reviewed in this articles: Concept Formation in Social Science William Outhwaite Theoretical Logic in Sociology. Volume Two. The Antinomies of Classical Thought: Marx and Durkheim J.C. Alexander The Individual and the Social Self: Unpublished Work of George Herbert Mead David L. Miller (ed.) The Macmillan Student Encyclopedia of Sociology Michael Mann (ed.) States and Societies David Held et al. (eds) Managing the Mind: A Study of Medical Psychology in Early Nineteenth Century Britain Michael Donnelly Contemporary Britain Angus Stewart (ed.) Belonging: Identity and Social Organisation in British Rural Cultures Anthony P. Cohen (ed.) Consensus and Beyond: The Development of Labour Party Strategy since the Second World War Alan Warde Women's Imprisonment: A Study in Social Control Pat Carlen Women's Religious Experience Pat Holden (ed.) The Social World of the Comprehensive School Glenn Turner Teaching about Race Relations: Problems and Effects L. Stenhouse et al. The Multicultural Curriculum James Lynch Race, Ethnicity and Power Donald G. Baker Approaches of Welfare Philip Bean and Stewart MacPherson, (eds) Living the Fishing Paul Thompson with Tony Wailey and Trevor Lummis Death and Renewal: Sociological Studies in Roman History, Volume 2 Keith Hopkins The Survey Method: The Contribution of Surveys to Sociological Explanation Catherine Marsh     

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Book reviewed in this article: Modern Social Theory: Erom Parsons to Habermas Ian Craib The Theory of Cimmnmieative Action, Volume One: Reason and the Rationalisation of Soeiety Jurgen Habermas Phihsophical-Political Profiles Jurgen Habermas The Rise and Fall of Structural Marxism Ted Benton Force, Fate, and Freedom: On Historical Sociology Reinhard Bendix Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History 1832-1982 Gareth Stedman Jones Political Leadership and Nihilism. A Study of Weber and Nietzsche Robert Eden Max Webers Insights and Errors Stanislav Andreski The Limits of Rationality: An Essay on the Social and Moral Thought of Max Weber Rogers Brubaker Seledion, Certification and Control Patricia Broadfoot (ed.) Schooling for the Dole: The New Vocationalism Inge Bates, John Clark Juvenile Delinquency: Trends and Perspectives Michael Rutter and Henri Giller, n.p., 432 pp The Welfare State in Crisis Remesh Mishra Health and Work under Capitalism: An International Perspective Vincente Navarro and Daniel N. Herman Women at Work George Joseph, P. Allan Religion and Social Theory Bryan S. Turner On Being a Mother Mary Georgina Boulton The Managed Heart Arlie Russell Hochschild Saints and their Cults, Studies in Religious Sociology, Folklore and History Stephen Wilson (ed.) Taking Soaps Seriously: The World of Guiding Light Michael Jame     

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Book reviewed in this article: Suicides by Jean Baechler. Philosophical Disputes in the Social Sciences, by S. C. Brown (ed.) Social Research and Royal Commissions by M. Bulmer (ed.) Official Discourse by Frank Burton and Pat Carlen The View from Goffman by Jason Ditton (ed.) Greek Homosexuality by K. J. Dover The Sociology of Rock by Simon Frith Marx and Mead: Contributions to a Sociology of knowledge by T. W. Goff Crime and Conflict in English Communities, 1300–1348 by Barbara A. Hanawalt Demystifying Social Statistics, by John Irvine et al. (eds.) For Science in the Social Sciences, by David Papineau Marxism and Class Theory, by Frank Parkin The Material Word: Some Theories of Language and its Limits by David Silverman and Brian Torode Ethics and Society in England: The Revolution in the Social Sciences, 1870–1914 by Reba N. Softer Street Ethnography by Robert S. Weppner (ed.) On Clichés by Anton C. Zijderveld     

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Books reviewed in this article: The Sources of Social Power Volume 1: A History of Power from the Beginning to A.D. 1760 M. Mann A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism, Volume Two: The Nation-State and Violence Anthony Giddens Nationalism and the State (Revised edition) John Breuilly The British State and the Ulster Crisis from Wilson to Thatcher paul Bew and Henry patterson Sociological Theory, Religion and Coollective Action Roy Wallis and Steve Bruce The Problem of Altruism C. R. Badcock Subjectivity and Social Relations Veronica Beechey and James Donald (eds.) Power, Action and Belief: A New Sociology of Knowledge? Sociological Review Monograph No. 32, John Law (ed.), Routledge & Kegan Paul Foucault, Marxism and History: Mode of Production versus Mode of Information Mark Poster Genealogies of Morals: Nietzsche, Foucault, Donzelot and the Eccentricity of Ethics Jeffrey Minson Selections from Cultural Writings Antonio Gramsci, edited by David Rogacs and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith Popular Culture and Social Relations T. Bennett, C. Mercer and J. woolacott (eds.) The Polictical Economy of Science and Techonology Norman Clark Casino Capitalism Susan Strange The Enchanted World: inflation, credit and the world crisis Alain Lipietz Critique of Commodity Aesthetics: Appearance, Sexuality and Advertising in Capitalist Society W. F. Haug Western Sexuality: Practice and Precept in Past and Present Times Philippe Aries and Andre Bejin, (eds.) Cross-class Families: A Study of Wives’Occupational Superiority Susan McRae Plant Closings: Power, Politics and Workers Lawrence E. Rothstein, Croom Helm Official Statistics Martin Slattery     

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Book Reviewed in this article The Wedding Complex: The Social Organization of a Rite of Passage by Trudy Knicely Henson in collaboration with Wayne Wheeler The Sociology of Developing Societies by Ankie M. M. Hoogvelt The Dialectic of Ideology and Technology: The Origins, Grammar and Future of Ideology by Alvin W. Gouldner Communism in Italy and France by Donald L. M. Blackmer and Sidney Tarrow (eds.) Economics and Demography by Ian Bowen Manpower Planning by D. J. Bartholomew (ed.) The Business of Crime: Italians and Syndicate Crime in the United States by Humbert S. Nelli Sociology's Models of Man by W. L. Skidmore Social Issues in Business by Fred Luthans and Richard M. Hodgetts (eds.) A Social History of Engineering by W. H. G. Armytage Theorizing by Alan Blum British Syndicalism 1900–1914 by Bob Holton Crimes of the Powerful by Frank Pearce The Sociology of Organisations by Angela M. Bowey Social Anthropology in Perspective: The Relevance of Social Anthropology by I. M. Lewis The Dual Vision: Alfred Schutz and the Myth of Phenomenological Social Science by Robert A. Gorman Critical Sociology: Selected Readings by Paul Connerton (ed.) Urban Sociology: Critical Essays by C. G. Pickvance (ed.) Origin and Significance of the Frankfurt School: A Marxist Perspective by Phil Slater     

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Lisa Adkins Gendered Work: Sexuality, Family and the Labour Market. Brian S. Baigrie (ed.) Picturing Knowledge: Historical and Philosophical Problems Concerning the Use of Art in Science. Maureen Baker Canadian Family Policies: Cross-National Comparisons. J.I. (Hans) Barker (ed.) Sustainability and International Rural Development. Kurt Bowen Evangelism and Apostasy: The Evolution and Impact of Evangelicals in Modern Mexico. Cecilia Danysk Hired Hands: Labour and the Development of Prairie Agriculture, 1880–1930. Satadal Dasgupta (ed.) The Community in Canada: Rural and Urban. Theresa DeLeane O'nell Disciplined Hearts: History, Identity and Depression in an American Indian Community. Gerald A.J. De Montigny Social Working: An Ethnography of Front-Line Practice. G. William Domhoff State Autonomy or Class Dominance? Case Studies on Policy Making in America. René R. Gadacz Rethinking DisAbility: New Structures, New Relationships. Hubert Gérard Victor Piche (eds.) La sociologie des populations. William Jankowiak (ed.) Romantic Passion: A Universal Experience? Peter S. Li The Making of Post-War Canada. Ken Morrison Marx, Durkheim, Weber: Formations of Modern Social Thought. Ken Morrison Marx, Durkheim, Weber: Formations of Modern Social Thought. Louise Quesnel (ed.) Social Sciences and the Environment. Clayton Roberts The Logic of Historical Explanation. Deborah Root Cannibal Culture: Art, Appropriation, and the Commodification of Difference. Frank M. Stark Communicative Interaction, Power and the State: A Method. Michael W. Traugott Paul J. Lavrakas The Voter's Guide to Election Polls. Eric Venbrux A Death in the Tiwi Islands: Conflict, Ritual and Social Life in an Australian Aboriginal Community. Tony Walter The Revival of Death. Frank Webster Theories of the Information Society. Jeffrey Weeks Invented Moralities: Sexual Values in an Age of Uncertainty. Richard G. Wilkinson Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality. Yunxiang Yan The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Method in Social Science: A Realist Approach Andrew Sayer The Perspective of Ethnomethodology Douglas Benson and John A. Hughes Soeiology, Ethnomethodology and Experience Mary F. Rogers The Social Dimension: European Developments in Social Psychology Henri Tajfel (ed.) Rethinking Cognitive Theory Jeff Coulter Beyond the State? Dominant Theories and Socialist Strategies Boris Frankel War, State and Society M. Shaw (ed.) Prisons and the Process of Justice Andrew Rutherford Regulating Society: Marginality and Social Control in Historical Perspeetive Ephraim H. Mizruchi Terrorism in Northern Ireland Alfred McClung Lee Classes in Contemporary Japan Rob Steven School Leavers and their Prospects: Youth and the Labour Market in the 1980s Kenneth Roberts Unfairly Structured Cities Blair Badcock Urban Social Research: Problems and Prospects (Sociological Review Monograph: 30) 169 Valdo Pons and Ray Francis (eds) Research in the Sociology of Work, Volume 2 I.H. Simpson and R.L. Simpson (eds) Work and Family: Changing Roles of Men and Women P. Voydanoff (ed.) Women and Education S. Acker, J. Megarry, S. Nisbet and E. Hoyle (eds) Talk: An Analysis of Speech and Non-Verbal Behaviour in Conversation Geoffrey Beattie British Social Attitudes. The 1984 Report R. Jowell and C. Airey (eds) The Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema and Society in Britain 1930-1939 Jeffrey Richards     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Baltes, Paul B. and Mayer, Karl Ulrich (eds) The Berlin Aging Study from 70 to 100
Bus eld, Joan Health and Health Care in Modern Britain
Bussemaker, Jet (ed.) Citizenship and Welfare State Reform in Europe
Chauvel, Louis Le destin des générations. Structure sociale et cohortes en France au Xxe siècle
Daly, Mary The Gender Division of Welfare. The Impact of the British and German Welfare States
Davis, Howard and Scase, Richard (eds) Managing Creativity: The Dynamics of Work and Organization
Evans, Geoffrey (ed.) The Decline of Class Politics: Class Voting In Comparative Perspective
Fenton, Steve Ethnicity: Racism, Class and Culture
Friedkin, Noah E. A Structural Theory of Social Influence
Jenkins, Timothy Religion in English Every-day Life: An Ethnographic Approach
Lyon, David Jesus in Disneyland: Religion In Postmodern Times
McRae, Susan (ed.) Changing Britain: Families and Households in the 1990s
Philo, Greg and Miller, David (eds) Market Killing: What the Free Market Does And What Social Scientists Can Do About It     

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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     

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Book Reviewed in this article Sociology in Action: A Critique of Selected Conceptions of the Social Role of the Sociologist by Christopher G. A. Bryant The Sociology of Leisure by Stanley Parker New Directions in Sociology by David C. Thorns (ed.) The Use of Models in the Social Sciences by Lyndhurst Collins (ed.) Escape Attempts: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Every-day Life by Stanley Cohen and Laurie Taylor Language, Schools and Classrooms by Michael Stubbs Elements of Sampling by V. Bamett Deciphering Data by J. Silvey Experiments in the Social Sciences by G. Brown, D. H. Cherrington and L. Cohen A Critical Introduction to Organisation Theory by Bruno Lussato Roscher and Knies: The Logical Problems of Historical Econotmcs by Max Weber (translated with an Introduction by Guy Oakes) The Organisation and Impact of Social Research by Marten Shiptnan (ed.) Introduction to Empirical Sociology by R. Mayntz, K. Holm and P. Hoebner Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 7 & 8 by T. Jefferson (ed.) The Labour Party and the Working Class by Tom Forester Gambling, Work and Leisure by D. M. Dowries, B. P. Davies, M. E. David and P. Stone The Latin American Peasant by Andrew Pearse Economic Calculation and Forms of Property by Charles Bettelheim Class, Race and Gold by Frederick A. Johnstone Value jor Money in Health Services by Brian Abel-Smith The Comparative Study of Political Elites by Robert D. Putnam Language in Culture and Class: The Sociology of Language and Education by A. D. Edwards     

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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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Books reviewed in this article: Victorian Values: Secularism and the size of families, J. A. Banks The Prison and The Factory, D. Melossi and M. Pavarini The Futility of Family Policy Gilbert Y. Steiner Social Contexts of Health, Illness and Patient Care Elliot G. Mishler et al. Children's Sexual Thinking Ronald and Juliette Goldman Realism: An Essay In Interpretation and Social Reality, David Levy Sociology Reinterpreted: An Essay on Method and Vocation, Peter L. Berger and Hansfried Kellner, 1982 Geography, Ideology and Social Concern, D. R. Stoddart (ed.) New Technology and Industrial Relations in Fleet Street, Roderick Martin Biography and Society: The Life History Appnach in the Social Sciences, Daniel Bertaux (ed.) Education in the Soviet Union: Policies and Institutions since Stalin, Mervyn Matthews Home, School and Leisure in the Soviet Union, Jenny Brine, Maureen Perrie and Andrew Sunon (eds) Historical Sociology, Philip Abrams The Dominant Ideology Thesis, Nicholas Abeicrombie Class, Structure and Knowledge, Nicholas Abercrombie Opium and the People: opiate use in nineteenth-century England, Virginia Berridge and Griffith Edwards Educational Subnormality, A Study in Decision Making, Sally Tomlinson A Sociology of Special Education, Sally Tomlinson Industrialization before Industrialization, P. Kreidte, H. Medick, J. Schlumbohm The German Working Class 1888–1933, Richard J. Evans (ed.)     

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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 The Sex Education Controversy. A Study of Politics, Education, and Morality by James Hottois and Neal A. Milner Citizens for Decency. Antipomography Crusades as Status Defense by Louis A. Zurcher, Jr., and R. George Kirkpatrick An Introduction to the Thought of Galvano Delia Volpe by John Fraser The Worker Directors: A Sociology of Participation by Peter Brannen, Eric Batstone, Derek Fatchett and Philip White Critique of Dialectical Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre Talcott Parsons and the Social Image of Man by Ken Menzies Rationality and the Social Sciences by S. I. Benn and G. W. Mortimer (eds.) Perspectives in Marxist Anthropology by Maurice Godelier (trans. Robert Brain) King Labour: The British Working Class 1850–1914 by David Kynaston Educational Aid and National Development by Nancy Parkinson.* Centrality and Cities by James Bird Essays in Labour History 1918–1939: Vol. 5 by Asa Briggs and John Saville (eds.) Miners, Quarrymen and Saltworkers by Raphael Samuel (ed.) Knowledge and Ideology in the Sociology of Education by Gerald Bernbaum Millenium and Charisma among Pathans: A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology by Akbar S. Ahmed The International Political System by F. S. Northedge New Rules of Sociological Methods by Anthony Giddens The Intelligentsia and the Intellectuals. Theory, Method and Case Study by Aleksander Gella (ed.) Social Class Differences in Britain: A Sourcebook by Ivan Reid     

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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: The American Occupational Structure by Peter M. Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan Social Work with the Mentally Subnormal by F. Joan Todd The State oj Psychiatry by Aubrey Lewis Inquiries in Psychiatry by Aubrey Lewis The Oldest Profession: A History of Prostitution by Lujo Basscrraann The Computer and the Clerk by Enid Mutnford and Olive Banks Working with Unattached Yoiith: Problem, Approach, Method by George W. Goetschius and M. Joan Tash The Sharing of Power in a Psychiatric Hospital by R. Rubenstein and H. D. Lasswell Adopted Children: How They Grow Up by Alexina McWhinnie Law, Morality and Religion in a Secular Society by Basil Mitchell Voprosy Filosofii (Questions of Philosophy), Monthly Review published by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR The Sociology of Religion: A Study of Chnstendom, Vol. III. The Universal Church by Werner Stark The Myth of the Machine: Technics and Human Development by Lewis Mumford Sovet Sociology, Historical Antecedants and Current Appraisals, ed. with an introduction by Alex Simirenko Catholic Action in Italy: The Sociology of a Sponsored Organization by Gianfranco Poggi Themes in Economic Anthropology edited by R. Firth Eighteenth-Century Optimism: A Study of the Interrelations of Moral and Social Theory in English and French Thought between 1986 and 1987 by Charles Vereker     

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Book reviewed in this article: Introduction to the Sociology of Developing Societies Hamza Alavi and Teodor Shanin (eds) Sub-Saharan Africa Chris Allen and Gavin Williams (eds) T.S. Kuhn and Social Science, Barry Barnes. Art Worlds Howard S. Becker Black Youth in Crisis Ernest Cashmore and Barry Troyna (eds) English Country Houses and Landed Estates Heather A. Clemenson In the Active Voice Mary Douglas The Civilized Body P. E. S. Freund Classes, Power and Conflict: Classical and Contemporary Debates Anthony Giddens and David Held (eds) Sport, Culture and Ideology J. Hargreaves (ed.) Social Mobility Anthony Heath Social Mobility: a Study of Social Control and Insatiability Earl Hopper Social Relations and Human Attributes P. Hirst and P. Woolley The Development of Underdevelopment in China: A Symposium Philip C. C. Huang (ed.) A Third World Proletariat? Peter Lloyd The Politics of the Second Electorate: Women and Public Participation J. Lovenduski and J. Hills (eds) Max Weber and Karl Marx Karl Löwith Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology, Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock Work and Retirement Stanley Parker The Transition from School to Work Michael West and Peggy Newton (eds)     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Research Relationship G. Clare Wenger, (ed.) Classic Disputes in Sociology R. J. Anderson, J. A. Hughes and W. W. Sharrock (eds) Social Theory Today Anthony Giddens and Jonathan Turner (eds) Sociology and Social Welfare Michael Sullivan, Allen and Unwin Comparative Anthropology Ladislav Holy, (ed.) Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective Louis Dumont The Imaginary Institution of Society Cornelius Castoriadis, trans. Property Andrew Reeve, Macmillan, Basingstoke Myths of the Chicago School of Sociology Lee Harvey Towards A Critique of Foucault Mike Gane (ed.) Family Life in Western Societies J. E. Goldthorpe Reproducing Families: The Political Economy of English Population History David Levine Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780–1850 Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall Love in America: Gender and Self Development Francesca M. Cancian Neighbours: The Work of Philip Abrams Martin Bulmer (ed.) Ritualised Friendship and the Greek City Gabriel Herman Medical Power and Social Knowledge Bryan S. Turner Social Hygiene in Twentieth Century Britain Greta Jones, Croom Helm From Farming to Biotechnology. A Theory of Agro-Industrial Development David Goodman, Bernardo Sorj and John Wilkinson Workplace Industrial Relations and Technical Change W. W. Daniel Managing the Factory P. K. Edwards The Politics of the UCS Work-in John Foster and Charles Woolfson Redundancy and Recession in South Wales C. C. Harris Recession, Crime and Punishment Steven Box Crisis and Transition: Polish Society in the 1980s Jadwiga Koralewicz, Ireneusz Bialecki and Margaret Watson (eds) The Roots of Football Hooliganism Eric Dunning, Patrick Murphy and John Williams, Routledge and Kegan Paul Music and Society; The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception R. Leppert and S. McClary (eds)