BOOK REVIEWS

Sociological Theory and Modem Society by Talcott Parsons. The Lorry Driver by Peter G. Hollowell. Organization and Bureaucracy by Nicos P. Mouzelis. Systems of Organization by E. J. Miller and A. K. Rice. The Impact of Television: Methods and Findings in Program Research by W. A. Belson. Causation and Functionalism in Sociology by Wsevolod W. Isajiw. Taken for Granted: A Survey of the Parish Clergy of the Anglican Church of Canada by W. S. F. Pickering and J. L. Blanchard. The Phenomenology of the Social World by Alfred Schutz, translated by George Walsh and Frederick Lehnert. Child Development Research, Editors, Lois W. Hoffman and Martin L. The Community by Rene König. Child Development Research, Editors, Lois W. Hoffman and Martin L. Hoffman. Race Relations by M. Banton. System, Change and Conflict by N. J. Demerath III and Richard Peterson. Union Character and Social Class by R. M. Blackburn.     

Frederick Douglass and Black Abolitionism

Frederick Douglass. WILLIAM S. McFEELY. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company. 1991. xiii, 465 pp.

Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays. ERIC J. SUNDQUIST (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1990. vi, 295 pp.

The Frederick Douglass Papers: Series One: Speeches, Debates and Interviews, Volume 4: 1864–80. JOHN W. BLASSINGAME and JOHN R. McKIVIGAN (eds.). New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1991. xxxvii, 663 pp.

The Black Abolitionist Papers. Volume 4: The United States, 1847–1858. C. PETER RIPLEY (ed.). Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press. 1991. xxvi, 443 pp.

The Black Abolitionist Papers. Volume 5: The United States, 1859–1865. C. PETER RIPLEY (ed.). Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press. 1992. xiii, 435 pp.     

Classic Book Reviews: The Past Revived

Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture. R. S. Lynd & H. M. Lynd. Predicting Success or Failure in Marriage. E. W. Burgess & L. S. Cottrell, Jr. Family, Socialization and Interaction Process. T. Parsons & R. F. Bales. The Social Psychology of Groups. J. W. Thibaut & H. H. Kelley. Husbands and Wives. Dynamics of Married Living. R. O. Blood & D. M. Wolfe. World Revolution and Family Patterns. W. J. Goode. Blue‐Collar Marriage. M. Komarovsky. Emerging Conceptual Frameworks in Family Analysis. F. I. Nye & F. M. Berardo (Eds.). Family and Social Network(2nd ed.). E. Bott. The Future of Marriage. J. S. Bernard. All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community. C. B. Stack. Children of the Great Depression. G. H. Elder. Inside the Family: Toward a Theory of Family Process. D. Kantor & W. Lehr. A Treatise on the Family. G. S. Becker.     

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Abstract

BOWLING ALONE: THE COLLAPSE AND REVIVAL OF AMERICAN COMMUNITY. By Robert D. Putnam. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2000. $26.00 Hardback., by Robert D. Putnam Reviewed by Kristin M. Ferguson.

THE MISSING MIDDLE: WORKING FAMILIES AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN SOCIAL POLICY. By Theda Skocpol. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. $15.95 Papercover. Reviewed by Kristin M. Ferguson.     

On the Arrow and Wilson impossibility theorems

A social welfare function is Arrovian if it is transitive-valued and satisfies IIA. We examine the logical relation between the statements (A) If f is Arrovian with domain 𝒫 then it is dictatorial if it satisfies the Pareto criterion and (W) If f is Arrovian with domain 𝒫 then it is dictatorial or inversely dictatorial if it is non-null and satisfies non-imposition. We exhibit a class of domains on which W implies A and another on which A implies W. We also present examples of domains on which one of the statements is true and the other is false. Received: 23 October 2001/Accepted: 19 March 2002 We thank our two referees for their suggestions for improving the exposition.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books review in this article: The Sociology of Max Weber by Julien Freund Society and Democracy in Germany by R. Dahrendorf Latent Structure Analysis by Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Neil W. Henry The Sociology of Marx by Henri Lefebvre Delinquents and Non-delinquents in Perspective by S. and E. Glueck Moral Education by W. Kay Explanation in Social Science: A System Paradigm by Eugene J. Meehan The Coloured Worker in British Industry by P. L. Wright The Cloistered Elite by John Wakeford Essays on Research in the Sociology of Religion edited by Joachim Matthes Family and Kinship in Modern Britain by C. Turner Readings in Mathematical Social Science, edited by Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Neil W. Henry The Sociology of Education by D. F. Swift The Protestant Ethic and Modernization edited by S. N. Eisenstadt British Parliamentary Election Statistics 1918-1968 by F. W. S. Craig The British Voter by M. Kinnear Experiment in Industrial Democracy: A Study of the John Lewis Partnership, by Allan Flanders, Ruth Pomeranz and Joan Woodward Artistic Expression—A Sociological Analysis by V. Kavolis The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups by Mancur Olson Jr. Sociology and the Stereotype of the Criminal by Dennis Chapman Social Class and Delinquency by Lynn McDonald     

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Book Reviewed in this Article: Barsky, A. E. & Gould, J. W. (2002). Clinicians in Court: A guide to subpoenas, depositions, testifying and everything else you need to know. New York, Guilford, 256 pp. Hilburt‐Davis, J. & Dyer, W. G. Jr. (2003) Consulting to family businesses: A practical guide to contracting, assessment, and implementation. San Francisco: Jossey‐Bass/Pfeiffer, 270 pp., $ 35.00. Flemons, D. (2002) Of one mind: The logic of hypnosis, the practice of therapy. New York: Norton. Clift, E. (Ed.) (2002). Women's encounter with the mental health establishment: Escaping the yellow wallpaper. New York: Howarth Press, 217 pp.     

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Reference Groups: Exploration into Conformity and Deviation of Adolescents. By Muzafer and Carolyn W. Sherif . Class and Stratum. By Thomas E. Lasswel L. Development and Underdevelopment. By Celso Furtado . Translated by Ricardo W. de Aguiar and Eric Charles Drysdale . The Springtime of Freedom: The Evolution of Developing Societies.By William Mccord . Political Unification: A Comparative Study of Leaders and Forces.By Amitai Etzioni . The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America.By E. Digby Baltzell . The Human Dimension in International Relations. By Otto Kline -Berg . Patriotism and Nationalism: Their Psychological Foundations. By Leonard W. Doob . The Exercise of Influence in Small Groups. By Terence K. Hopkins .Totown, N.J. The Sober Alcoholic: An Organizational Analysis of Alcoholics Anonymous. By Irving Peter Gellman Religious Behavior: Where Sociology and Religion Meet. By Oliver R. Whitley Community and Privacy: Toward a New Architecture of Humanism. By Serge ChermayefE and Christopher Alexander.     

Reviews

Tony (A.R.J.) Kushner, The Persistence of Prejudice: Antisemitism in British Society During the Second World War (Manchester: Manchester’ University Press, 1989), Pp.ix + 257. £29.95.

Calvin W. Ruck, The Black Battalion, 1916–1920: Canada's Best Kept Military Secret. (Halifax NS: Nimbus Publishing, 1987). Pp.124. £6.95 pb.

Valerie Marett, Immigrants Settling in the City (London: Leicester University Press, 1989). Pp.vii + 207. £35 hb.

Keith Thompson, Under Siege: Racial Violence in Britain Today, (London: Penguin Books, 1988). Pp.xx + 204. £3.99p/b.

W. Montgomery Watt, Islamic Fundamentalism and Modernity (London: Routledge, 1988). Pp.ii + 158. £25.00.     

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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     

Book reviews

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)     

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Book Reviewed in this article Social Problems: A Critical Analysis of Theories and Public Policy by R. P. Lowry Trade Unions and Society: The Struggle for Acceptance, 1850–1880 by W. Hamish Fraser The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting by Daniel Bell A Mythology of British Education by Robert Bell and Nigel Grant Trade Unionism by J. A. Banks Inside a Curriculum Project by M. D. Shipman, with D. Bolam and D. Jenkins The Prisonei's Release by Keith Soothill The Scope of Understanding in Sociology by Werner Pelz Sociology and the Demystification of the Modem World by John Rex Cultures, Vol. I. No. I: ‘Music and Society’ Citizens in Conflict: The Sociology of Town Planmng by J. M. Simmie Strikes and Industrial Conflict by G. K. Ingham Apprentices Out of Their Time: A Follow-Up Study by Ethel VenaMes Popular Recreations in English Society, 1700–1850 by Robert W. Atalccdmson Sociology and Development by E. de Kadt and G. Williams Concepts in Socud Administration: A Framework for Analysis by A. Forder Connections: Notes from the Heroin World by Leroy C. Gould, Andrew L. Walker, Lansing E. Crane and Charles W. Lidz Computers and the Social Sciences by Alan Brier and Ian Robinson Incest by Herbert Maish Stratification: An Essay on Class and Inequality by R. K. Kelsall and H. M. Relsall Personnel Pkmning and Occupational Choice by S. Timperley     

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Book reviewed in this article: A Place on the Corner by Elijah Anderson Violent Criminal Acts and Actors by Lonnie H. Athens Radical Social Work and Practice by Mike Brake and Roy Bailey (eds.) Sociology and History by Peter Burke. Organisation, Class and Control by S. Clegg and D. Dunkerley. The World of Goods by Mary Douglas and Baron Middle-Class Couples: A Study of Segregation, Domination and Inequality in Marriage by Stephen Edgell A Society in the Making: Hungarian Social and Societal Policy 1945–75 by Zsuzsa Ferge More Bad News by Glasgow University Media Group The Celebration of Heroes by W. J. Goode The Hidden Economy: The Context and Control of Borderline Crime by Stuart Henry Contrology: Beyond the New Criminology by Jason Ditton Company Organisation and Worker Participation: A Survey of Attitudes and Practices in Industrial Democracy with Special Emphasis on the Prospects for Employee Directors by Ian B. Knight Boards of Directors in British Industry by Christopher Brookes Sociological Economics by Louis Lévy-Garboua (ed.) Change in Public Bureaucracies by Marshall W. Meyer School and the Social Order by Frank Musgrove Green and Pleasant Land? Social Change in Rural England by Howard Newby Capital and Land: Landownership by Capital in Great Britain by Doreen Massey and Alejandrina Catalano The Deviance Process by Edwin, H. Pfuhl, Jr. Interpreting Deviance by E. M. Schur. H. B. Paternalism in Early Victorian England by David Roberts. Servants of Post-Industrial Power? ‘Sociologie du travail’ in Modern France by Michael Rose Wealth and the Wealthy in the Modern World by W. D. Rubinstein (ed.) Bäuerlicher Widerstand und feudale Herrschaft in der frühen Neuzeit by Winifried Schulze A Critique of Sociological Reasoning by Charles W. Smith The City and Social Theory by Michael Smith Bureaucratic Opposition: Challenging Abuses at the Workplace by Deena Weinstein     

Reviews and abstracts

Robert W. Ewer, M.D.; John B. Kelly, M.D., and Margery W. Shaw, M.D.: Surgical and Hormonal Therapy of Adult Female Intersex. Rationale in a Case with Erroneous Sex Assignment. Archives of Internal Medicine, Vol. 112, Sept. 1963.

Phillys and Eberhard Kronhausen: The Sexually Responsive Woman. Grove Press, New York, 1964. 255 pgs. Price $5.95.

Ira L. Reiss (State University of Iowa): Premarital Permissiveness among Negroes and Whites. Am. Sociol. Review, 29: 5, Oct. 1964.

Jerome M. Schneck, A.B., M.D. (ed.): Hypnosis in Modern Medicine (Third Edition). Charles C Thomas, Springfield, Ill., 1963.     

Network discourses: proliferation,critique and synthesis

Books reviewed in this article: R. Appelbaum, W. L. Felstiner, and V. Gessner (eds), Rules and networks: the legal culture of global business transactions D. Barney, The network society A. Barry, Political machines: governing a technological society G. Thompson, Between hierarchies and markets: the logic of network forms of organization     

Restoring a reputation: The Duke University lacrosse scandal

Duke University was thrust into a crisis situation when three members of its lacrosse team were indicted on charges of first-degree rape and sexual assault. As the story received extensive media coverage and while the prosecution and defense were making their legal arguments, the reputation of Duke University was called into question and it too was in need of appropriate public relations communication strategies. The purpose of this paper is to summarize the actions and public relations communication emanating from Duke in its attempt to frame the story and restore its reputation. Public relations theories that focus on image restoration as articulated by Benoit [Benoit, W. L. (1995). Accounts, excuses, and apologies: A theory of image restoration strategies. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press; Benoit, W. L. (2000). Another visit to the theory of image restoration strategies. Communication Quarterly, 48(1), 40–44] and Coombs [Coombs, W. T. (1995). Choosing the right words: The development of guidelines for the selection of the “appropriate” crisis response strategies. Management Communication Quarterly, 8, 447–476; Coombs, W. T. (2006). Crisis management: A communicative approach. In C. H. Botan & V. Hazleton (Eds.). Public relations theory II (pp. 171–197). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates] as well as the concept of message framing are presented and used to analyze Duke's communication response. Studying the Duke case provides an example of an organization executing theoretical concepts in a practical situation.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Twelve Who Survive: Strengthening Programmes of Early Childhood Development in the Third World. Robert Myers Autistic States in Children Frances Tustin The Law Relating To Children CM. Lyon Improving Children's Lives: Global Perspectives on Prevention George W. Albee, Lynne A. Bond, Toni V. Cook Monsey (eds.)     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books review in this article: The Family and Individual Development by D. W. Winnicott Administering Research and Development The Behaviour of Scientists and Engineers in Organizations by Charles D. Orth, Joseph C. Bailey, Francis W. Wolek The Dynamics of a Changing Technology: A Case Study in Textile Manufacturing by Peter J. Fensham and Douglas Hooper The Family and Social Change: A Study of Family and Kinship in a South Wales Town by Colin Rosser and Christopher Harris The Sociology of Housing: Studies at Berinsfield by R. N. Morris and John Mogey Britain's Married Women Workers by Viola Klein Modem British Politics by Samuel H. Beer Aspects of the Analysis of Family Structure by Ansley J. Coale et al. Changing the Lawbreaker by Don C. Gibbons Biological Aspects of Social Problems edited by J. E. Meade and A. S. Parkes The Arts in Society edited by R. N. Wilson