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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 Planning and Human Need by P. Heywood The No-Growth Society edited by Mancur Olsen and Hans H. Lansberg Voluntary Action Research: 1974 edited by David Horton Smith Practical Social Sciences by Aeiam Podgoredd Race, Class and Militancy: An African Trade Union, 1939–1965 by R. D. Gdllo Mass Communication Research: Major Issues and Future Directiorts edited by W. Phillips Davison and Frederick T. C. Yu From Karl Mannheim eelited and with an introduction by Kurt H. Wolff Industrialism by Barry Turner Contemporary Soviet Government by L. G. Churchward Colliery Closure and Social Change: A Study of a South Wales Mining Vdley by John Sewel Ethnicity: Theory and Experience edited by N. Glazer and D. P. Moynihan Rzecz o Nauczydelach w Wychowujacym Spoleczetistwie Socjalistycznym (The Rôle of Teachers in Educating a Socialist Sodety) by Jan Szczepanstd Understanding Social Life: The Method called Verstehen by William Outhwaite Marx and Modem Social Theory by Alan Swingewood The Co-operative Farmer and the Welfare State by J. S. Abarbanel Sociology and Philosophy by Emile Durkheim. Translated by D. F. Pocock, with an Introduction by J. G. Peristiany, and an article on Dtirkhdm's Life and Work by Talcott Parsons The Politics of Organizational Decision Making by A. Pettigrew The Sociology of Organisations by D. J. Champion Power, Persistence and Change: A Second Study of Banbury by M. Sacey, E. Batstone, C. Bell and A. Murcott Talcott Parsons and American Sociology by Guy Rocher The Politics of Law Enforcement by Alan Edward Bent Gypsies and Government Policy in England: A Study of the Travellers’Way of Life in Relation to Policies and Practices of Central and Load Government by Barbara Adams, Judith Okely, David Morgan and David Smith Theoretical Thinking in Sociology by W. Skidmore Old-Age Institutions by Barbara Boiling Manard, Cary Steven Kart and Dirk W. L. van Gils Drugs, Society and the Law by Harvey Teff     

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Books review in this article: The Inclusive Society? Social Exclusion and New Labour Ruth Levitas Powers of Freedom. Reframing Political Thought Nikolas Rose Required Reading: Sociology's Most Influential Books Dan Clawson (ed.) The Lived Body: Sociological Themes, Embodied Issues Simon J. Williams and Gillian Bendelow Nature: Western Attitudes since Ancient Times Peter Coates Prostitution, Power and Freedom Julia O'Connell Davidson Men Who Sell Sex Peter Aggleton (ed.) Organization-Representation: Work and Organization in Popular Culture John Hassard and Ruth Holliday (eds) Global Transformations. Politics, Economics and Culture David Held and Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton Class in Britain Ivan Reid The Play of Reason: From the Modern to the Postmodern Linda Nicholson     

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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 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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Books reviewed in this article: Faces of Feminism: A Study of Feminism as a Social Movement, Olive Banks Small Entrepreneurs in Changing Europe: Towards a Research Agenda, Jeremy Boissevan The Entrepreneurial Middle Class, Richard Scase and Robert Goffee The Logic of Social Action. An Introduction to Sociological Analysis, Raymond Boudon The Unintended Consequences of Social Action, Raymond Boudon Thinking Photography, Victor Burgin (ed.) The Politics of Pop Festivals, Michael Clarke One For the Money: Politics and Popular Song, Dave Harker Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence, G. A. Cohen Cooking, Cuisine and Class, Jack Goody The German Social Democratic Party, W. L. Guttsman The Creation of World Poverty, An Alternative View to the Brandt Report, Teresa Hayter The Bureaucratic Leviathan–A Study in the Sociology of Communism, Maria Hirszowicz Culture and Society in Contemporary Europe: A Casebook, S. Hoffman and P. Kitromiledes (eds) Advances in Social Theory and Methodology: Towards an Integration of Micro- and Macro-Sociologies, Karin Knorr-Cetina and Aaron Cicourel, (eds) Johnsonville: Continuity and Change in a New Zealand Township, David Pearson An Island Polity: the archaeology of exploitation in Melos, Colin Renfrew and Malcolm Wagstaff (eds) On Becoming a Rock Musician, H. Stith Bennet The Population History of England 1541–1871: A Reconstruction E. A. Wrigley and R. S. Schofield Policing the City, Rob Mawby Frames of Meaning: The Social Construction of Extraordinary Science, H.M. Collins and T.J. Pinch Field Research: A Sourcebook and Field Manual, Ed. Robert G. Burgess The History of Marxism: vol I, Marxism in Marx's Day, Ed. E. J. Hobsbawm Modern Interpretations of Marx, Tom Bottomore Ed. Hooligans or Rebels? An Oral History of Working-Class Childhood and Youth 1889–1939, Stephen Humphries Housing and Identity – cross-cultural Perspectives Ed. James S. Duncan.     

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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 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: 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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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: School Life and Work Life: A Study of Transition in the Inner City by John Bazalgette Doing Sociological Research by Colin Bell and Howard Newby (eds.) The Perceptual World of the Child by Tom Bower Children's Drawings by Jacqueline Goodnow The First Relationship: Infant and Mother by Daniel Stern What is a Child? by Nicholas Tucker Newspaper History from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day. by George Boyce, James Curran, and Pauline Wingate (eds.) Marx's Capital and Capitalism Today, Vol. 2 by Anthony Cutler, Barry Hindess, Paul Hirst and Athar Hussain. Women and Schooling by Rosemary Deem Contemporary Europe: Social Structures and Cultural Patterns by Salvador Giner and Margaret Scotford Archer (eds.) The Theory of Social Action: The Correspondence of Alfred Schutz and Talcott Parsons by Richard Grathoff (ed.) Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order by Stuart Hall, Chas ditcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke and Brian Roberts Progress and its Problems: Towards a Theory of Scientific Growth by Larry Laudan Privilege in the Soviet Union. A Study of Elite Life-Styles under Communism by Mervyn Matthews Privilege in the Soviet Union. A Study of Elite Life-Styles under Communism by Mervyn Matthews Class Struggle, The State and Medicine: An Historical and Contemporary Analysis of the Medical Sector in Great Britain by Vicente Navarro The Blue-Coated Worker by Robert Reiner Richard Titmuss, Welfare and Society by D. A. Reisman Power and the Curriculum: Issues in Curriculum Studies by Colin Richards (ed.) Education and the Political Order. Changing Patterns of Class Control by Ted Tapper and Brian Salter The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays by E. P. Thompson Experimentation in American Religion. The New Mysticisms and their Implications for the Churches by Robert Wuthnow     

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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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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: 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 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: 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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Books reviewed in this article: Benton, T. and Craib, I., Philosophy of Social Science. The Philosophical Foundations of Social Thought Briggs, Asa, Michael Young: Social Entrepreneur Domanski, Henryk On the Verge of Convergence Gershuny, J., Changing Times: Work and Leisure in Postindustrial Society Giddens, Anthony (ed.), The Global Third Way Debate Polity 2001 Hodson, Randy, Dignity at Work Lin, Nan, Social Capital: A Theory of Social Structure and Action Pahl, Ray, On Friendship Savage, Mike, Class Analysis and Social Transformation Slater, D. and Tonkiss, F., Market Society: Markets and Modern Social Theory Svallfors, Stefan and Taylor‐Gooby, Peter (eds), The End of the Welfare State? Responses to State Retrenchment Routledge Willis, Paul, The Ethnographic Imagination     

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Book reviewed in this article:
A Critical Dictionary of Sociology R. Boudon and F Bourricaud (translated by Peter Hamilton)
A Treatise on Social Theory. Volume II: Substantive Social Theory W.G. Runciman
Mind in Action Jeff Coulter
Max Weber and Thomas Mann: Calling and the Shaping of the Self Harvey Goldman
Éamile Durkheim and the Reformation of Sociology Stjepan G. Mestrović
Politics and Class Analysis , B. Hindess
Choice, Rationality and Social Theory , B. Hindess
Social Anthropology and the Politics of Language , Ralph Grillo (ed.)
The Pluralist Theory of the State: Selected Writings of G. D.H. Cole . J.N. Eiggis and HJ. Laski Paul O. Hirst (ed.)
Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism , Roy Medvedev
Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory Nancy J. Chodorow
The Woman in the Body. A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction , Emily Martin
Rediscovering Masculinity: Reason. Language and Sexuality , Victor J. Seidler
Growing Old in the Twentieth Century , Margot Jefferys (ed.)
Nursing the Dying , David Field
Doctoring the Media: the Reporting of Health and Medicine , Anne Karpf
Social Order/Mental Disorder: Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective , Andrew Scull
Sport in Britain: A Social History Tony Mason (ed.)
Family Art , Philip Pacey
'Highbrow/Lowbrow': The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America , Lawrence W Levine.     

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Books reviewed in this article: Beckford, James A. and Gilliat, Sophie Religion in Prison: Equal Rites in a Multi-faith Society Campbell, Colin The Myth of Social Action Heelas, Paul (ed.) Religion, Modernity and Postmodernity Sica, Alan (ed.) What is Social Theory? The Philosophical Debates Swartz, David Culture and Power:The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu van den Berg, Axel, Furåker, Bengt and Johansson, Leif Labour Market Regimes and Patterns of Flexibility. A Sweden–Canada Comparison     

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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