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Knowledge, Ideology and Discourse: A Sociological Perspective Tim Dent Heterology and the Postmodern: Julian Pefanis A Sociology of Monsters: Essays on Power, Technology and Domination: John Law, (ed.) Max Weber: from History to Modernity: Bryan S. Turner Erving Goffman: Tom Burns Ethnomethodology and the Human Sciences: Graham Button (ed.) Family and the State of Theory: David Cheal Families and Households: Divisions and Change: C. Marsh and S. Arber, (eds) The British Population: Patterns, Trends and Processes: David Coleman and John Salt Eugenics, Human Genetics and Human Failings: The Eugenics Society, Its Sources and Its Critics in Britain: Pauline M. H. Mazumdar Towards a New Sociology of Social Work: Roger Sibeon Corporate Society: Class, Property and Contemporary Capitalism: J. McDermott Deconstructing America: Representations of the Other: Peter Mason Unwrapping Japan: Society and Culture in Anthropological Perspective: E. Ben-Ari, B. Moeran, and J. Valentine (eds) Enterprise and Heritage: Crosscurrents of National Culture: John Corner and Sylvia Harvey (eds) In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity: Frank Krutnik Fieldwork in Educational Settings: Methods. Pitfalls and Perspectives: S. Delamont     

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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 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: 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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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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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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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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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: Power, Modernity and Sociology: Selected Sociological Writings. Raymond Aron. Dominique Schnapper (ed.) Michel Foucault: Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and other Writings 1977–84, Lawrence D. Kritzman (ed.) Norbert Elias: Civilization and the Human Self-Image, Stephen Mennell Modernity and the Holocaust, Zygmunt Bauman Fin-de-Siecle Socialism, Martin Jay The Analysis of Ideology, Raymond Boudon Political Theory and the Modern State, David Held The State, John A. Hall and G. John Ikenberry Status, Bryan S. Turner Citizenship, J.M. Barbalet On Work: Historical, Comparative and Theoretical Approaches R.E. Pahl (ed.) The Transformation of Work? Skill, Flexibility and the Labour, Process S. Wood (ed.) New Technology and the Labour Process, David Knights and Hugh Willmott (eds) Employment in Britain D. GaHie (ed.) Victims of Crime: A New Deal?, M. Maguire and J. Pointing Growing Up Good: Policing the Behaviour of Girls in Europe M. Cain (ed.) The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe Rudolf M. Dekker and Lotte C. van de Pol AIDS: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Activism, Douglas Crimp (ed.) Looka Yonder The Imaginary America of Populist Culture Duncan Webster     

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Book review in this article: Sport and Work Bero Rigauer. Sociological Impressionism: a Reassessment of Georg Simmers Social Theory David Frisby. Doing Feminist Research Helen Roberts (ed.) Modern Policing D. Pope and L. Weiner (ed). Police Behavior R. Lundman (ed). Policing the Inner City M. Punch. The Sociology of Journalism and the Press Harry Christian (ed). Exploring Participation Paul Bate and Iain Mangham. Class and Economic Change in Kenya: The Making of an African Petty Bourgeoisie Gavin Kitching. Organization without authority: dilemmas of social control in free schools Ann Swidler. Further Education or Training? A Case Study in the Theory and Practice of Day-Release Education Denis Gleeson and George Mardle. Kinship at the Core Marilyn Strathem. The World of States: Connected Essays J. D. B. Miller. State and Class: A Sociology of International Affairs Ralph Pettman. Corporations, Classes and Capitalism John Scott. The Challenge of Corporatism Otto Newman. Power, Property and Corporatism: The Political Sociology of Planning James Simmie. Dependent Accumulation and Underdevelopment André Gunder Frank. World Accumulation, 1492–1789 André Gunder Frank. REVIEW ARTICLE Althusser meets Anancy: Structuralism and Popular Protest in Ken Post's History of Jamaica Robin Cohen     

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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: 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: Law, Crime and Sexuality: Essays in Feminism Carol Smart Theory in its Feminist Travels: Conversations in U.S. Women's Movements Katie King Up Against Foucault: Explorations of Some Tensions Between Foucault and Feminism Caroline Ramazanoglu, (ed.) Critical Theory David Couzens Hoy and Thomas McCarthy Reading, Writing & Rewriting the Prostitute Body Shannon Bell Theorising Citizenship R. Beiner (ed.) Dimensions of Radical Democracy: Pluralism, Citizenship, Community C. Mouffe (ed.) Race, Politics and Social Change John Solomos and Les Back The People's Home? Social Rented Housing in Europe and America Michael Harloe Green Networks: A Structural Analysis of the Italian Environmental Movement Mario Diani Understanding the Family J. Muncie et al. (eds) A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia Bina Agrawal The Sociology of Health and Illness Sarah Nettleton The Healing Bond: The Patient–Practitioner Relationship and Therapeutic Responsibility Susan Budd and Ursula Sharma, (eds) Scotland – the Brand: The Making of Scottish Heritage David McCrone, Angela Morris and Richard Kiely Media Matters: Everyday Culture and Political Change John Fiske Sociology and Visual Representation Elizabeth Chaplin Law, Space, and the Geographies of Power Nicholas Blomley     

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Book reviewed in this article: Campus Power Strggle edited by Howard S. Becker. Theory Construction: From Verbal to Mathematical Formulations by H. M. Blalock. Personality and Religion: The Rôle of Religon in Personality Development edited by William A. Sadler Jr. Social Relations in a Secondary School by David H. Hargreaves. Society and Economic Growth: A Behavioural Perspective of Social Change by J. H. Kunkel. Sociology, Histroy and Education: A Reader edited by P. W. Musgrave. Social Research and Social Policy by Howard E. Freeman and Clarence C. Sherwood. The Emergence of Society by C. K. Warriner. The Philosophy of Social Science by Alan Ryan. Television and Delinquency by J. D. Halloran, R. L. Brown and D. C. Chaney. Foster Care: Theory and Practice by V. George. The Sociological Study of Religion by R. Scharf. Basic Readings in the Sociology of Education edited by D. F. Swift. Social System and Time and Space by J. Kolaja. I Data Bases, Computers, and the Social Sciences edited by R. L. Bisco. II Cluster Analysis by R. C. Tryon and D. E. Bailey. Whose City? And Other Essays on Sociology and Planning by R. E. Pahl.     

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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: 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: Undoing the Social: Towards a Deconstructive Sociology Ann Game Reading Ethnographic Research Martyn Hammersley What Has Sociology Achieved? C.G.A. Bryant and N.A. Becker, (eds) Ideology and Utopia: An Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge Karl Mannheim Knowledge and Politics: The Sociology of Knowledge Dispute Volker Meja and Nico Stehr, (eds) The Myths We Live By R. Samuel and P. Thompson Late Marxism: Adorno or the Persistence of the Dialectic F. Jameson Structures of Capital: The Social Organization of the Economy Sharon Zukin and Paul DiMaggio, (eds) From Boarding House to Bistro: the American Restaurant Then and Now Richard Pillsbury A Tale of Two Industries: The Contraction of Coal and Steel in the North East of England Huw Beynon, Ray Hudson and David Sadler Dependence and Autonomy, Women's Employment and the Family in Calcutta Hilary Standing Being Unemployed in Northern Ireland: An Ethnographic Study Leo Howe The State of Welfare: The Welfare State in Britain Since 1974 John Hills, (ed.) Doing Educational Research Geoffrey Walford, (ed.) Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood: Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of Childhood Allison James and Alan Prout, (eds) Young People's Understanding of Society Adrian Furnham and Barrie Stacey Common Culture: Symbolic Work at Play in the Everyday Cultures of the Young P. Willis Music as Social Text John Shepherd Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 1841–1991 S.W.F. Holloway Social Science Perspectives on Medical Ethics George Weisz, (ed.)     

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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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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: 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)