Book reviews / Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: Paul Starr, The Social Transformation of American Medicine. Statistics Canada, Divorce: Law and the family in Canada. Leonard Thompson and Andrew prior, South African Politics. Janzen, John m., The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire. Yvan breton et marie-france labrecque, Uagriculture, la peche et I'artisanat au Yucatan. Virginia kerns, Women and the Ancestors: Black Carib Kinship and Ritual. THEODOR W. ADORNO Prisms Catherine bodard silver, Frederic he Play On Family, Work and Social Change. PIERRE BIRNBAUM, The Heights of Power ALAIN TOURAINE, The Voice and the Eye: An analysis of social movements. FRANK E. MANNING, The Celebration of Society: Perspectives on Contemporary Cultural Performance MAURICE CUSSON, Why Delinquency? (trans. Dorothy R. Crelinsten). Toronto: University of Toronto Press RICHARD GRUNEAU, Class, Sports, and Social Development. Jeffrey c. Alexander, Theoretical Logic in Sociology (vol. 3): The Classical attempt at Theoretical Synthesis: Max Weber. Craig calhoun, The Question of Class Struggle: Social Foundations of Popular Radicalism during the Industrial Revolution.