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Reviews the book "The Sociological Eye: Selected Papers," by Everett C. Hughes.

Reviews the book "The Contexts of Social Mobility: Ideology and Theory," by Anselm L. Strauss.

Reviews the book "Sociologica II. Aufsätze und Reden," by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno.

Several reviews of sociology books are presented. Books reviewed include "Adolescent Sexuality in Contemporary America" by R. Sorenson; "The Deceived Majority: Politics and Protest in Middle America" by Gordon Fellman; "A Cost-Effectiveness Study of Clinical Methods of Birth Control: With Special Reference to Puerto Rico" by William J. Kelly; "Creative Approach to Sex Education and Counseling" by Patricia Schiller; and "Ethnic Enterprise in America" by Ivan H. Light.

Reviews the book "Ideology and Social Knowledge," by Harold J. Bershady.

Reviews the book "Social Stratification: Research and Theory for the 1970s," edited by Edward O. Laumann.

Reviews the book "Lund Studies in Geography: Ser."

Reviews the book "Social Thought: From Hammurabi to Comte," by Rollin Chambliss.

Reviews the book "Parent and Child: Studies in Family Behavior," by James H. S. Bossard.

Reviews the book "Social Causation," by By Robert M. MacIver.

The article presents a list of books reviewed in the December 2, 1969 issue of the journal "British Journal of Sociology." Some of the books reviewed included "Growing Up in an Egyptian Village," Hamed Ammar, "The Nature of Prejudice," by Gordon W. Allport and "Trade Union Leadership," by V.L. Allen.

This article discusses the nature of introductory texts for the study of sociology at the university level. Various challenges faced in the writing of introductory textbooks are discussed. Texts such as "Preface to the Social Sciences," by R. F. Bellamy et al., "The Proper Study of Mankind," by Stuart Chase, and "Sociology: An Analysis of Life in a Modern Society," by A. W. Green are discussed. The author offers his own suggestions, with respect to the needs of students who are undertaking general studies and those who will specialize in sociology.

Reviews two books on sociology edited by Paul Kecskemeti. "Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge"; "Essays on Sociology and Social Psychology."

Reviews the book "Essays in Sociological Theory," by Talcott Parsons.

Reviews the book "The Idea of Culture in the Social Sciences," by Louis Schneider and Charles Bonjean.

Reviews the book "Sociology and the Demystification of the Modern World," by John Rex.

Reviews the book "Towards an Integrated Society: Reflections on Planning, Social Policy, and Rural Institutions," by Tarlok Singh.

Reviews the book "The Role of the Land Grant in the Social Organization and Social Processes of a Spanish-American Village in New Mexico," by Olen E. Leonard.

Reviews the book "Benefits and Burdens of Rural development: Some Public Policy Viewpoints."

Reviews several books on sociology. "Elements Associated With Activity and Inactivity in Rural Organizations" by Emory J. Brown; "Family Type and Social Participation" by W. C. Rohrer and J. F. Schmidt; "Organized Rural Communities, A Series of Case Studies From Western North Carolina," by Selz C. Mayo.

Reviews the book "Factors Related to Levels of Living of Oklahoma Farm Families," by Otis Durant Duncan.

Reviews the book "Class, Status, and Power," edited by Reinhard Bendix and Seymour Martin Lipset.

Reviews the book "Contributions to the Sociology of the Mass Culture," edited by Mihail Cernea.

Reviews the book "Sociology in Britain: A Survey of Research," by Ernest Krausz.

Reviews the book "Sociological Theory: Inquiries and Paradigms," edited by Llewellyn Gross.

Reviews the book "Tendances et volontés de la Société Française."

Reviews the book "Probleme der Religionssoziologie. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie."

Reviews the book "The World of Odysseus," by M. I. Finley.

Reviews the book "Kansas Rural Institutions IX. Country Weekly," by F. D. Farrell.

Reviews the book "Social Structure and the Family: Generational Relations," by Ethel Shanas and Gordon F. Streib.

Reviews the book "The Changing South," edited by Raymond W. Mack.

Reviews the book "Human Societies: A Macrolevel Introduction to Sociology," by Gerhard Lenski.

Reviews the book "Graphic Regional Sociology," by Carle C. Zimmerman and Richard E. Du Wors.

Reviews the book "The Political Context of Sociology," by Leon Bramson.

Reviews the book "Auf der Suche nach Wirklichkeit," by Helmut Schelsky.

Reviews the book "Society: Problems and Methods of Study," edited by A.T. Welford, Michael Argyle, D.V. Glass and J.N. Morris.

Reviews the book "L'Année Sociologique."

Reviews the book "On the Beginning of Social Inquiry," by Peter McHugh, Stanley Raffel, Daniel C. Foss and Alan F. Blum.

Reviews two volumes of the book "Handbuch der empirischen Sozialforschung," edited by René König, vol.1, "Geschichte und Grundprobleme der empirischen Sozialforschung," vol.2, "Grundlegende Methodern und Techniken der empirischen Sozialforschung."

Reviews the book "The Sociology of Science," edited by P. Halmos.

Reviews the book "Let Them Eat Promises: The Politics of Hunger in America," by Nick Kotz.

Reviews the book "Perspectives on the Sociology of Development," edited by Rene König, with the assistance of Günter Albrecht, Wolfgang Freund, and Dieter Fröhlich.

Reviews the book "Sociologia y Desarrollo Rural," by Antonio M. Arce.

Reviews the book "The TVA," by Gordon R. Clapp.

Reviews the book "Learning Theory, Personality Theory and Clinical Research: The Kentucky Symposium."

Reviews the book "The Australian Way of Life," edited by George Caiger.

Reviews the book "Max Weber: The Theory of Social and Economic Organization," edited and translated by Talcott Parsons and A. M. Henderson.

Reviews the book "Industry and Society," edited by William F. Whyte.

Reviews the book "Contemporary Community: Sociological Illusion or Reality?," by Jacqueline Scherer.

Reviews the book "Man and the Social Sciences," by William A. Robson.