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Reviews the book "Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory," edited by Peter Hedström and Richard Swedberg.

The article reviews the book "Studies in Symbolic Interaction," edited by Norman K. Denzin.

Reviews the book "Transforming Post-Communist Political Economies," edited by Joan M. Nelson, Charles Tilly and Lee Walker.

The article reviews several books including "Ethnicity and Violence: The Case of Radical Basque Nationalism," by Diego Muro, "European Anti-Discrimination and the Politics of Citizenship. Britain and France," edited by Christophe Bertossi, and "Employment Regimes and the Quality of Work," edited by Duncan Gallie.

Reviews the book "Autonomiegewinne. Sozialstaatsdynamik, Moraifreiheit, Tranmationalisierung," by Georg Vobruba.

Reviews the book "Karl Polanyi in Vienna: The Contemporary Significance of The Great Transformation," edited by Kenneth McRobbie and Kari Polanyi Levitt.

Reviews the book "The Social Quality of Europe," edited by Wolfgang Beck, Laurent van der Maesen and Alan Walker.

Reviews the book "Against the Odds: Social Class and Social Justice in Industrial Societies," by Gordon Marshall, Adam Swift and Stephen Roberts.

The article reviews the book "Wirtschaft in soziologischer Perspektive. Diskurs und empirische Analysen," edited by Nollert, Michael, Hanno Scholtz and Patrick Ziltener.

Reviews the book "The Institutions of Local Development," edited by Fabio Sforzi.

The article reviews the book "Social Assistance Dynamics in Europe: National and Local Poverty," edited by Chiara Saraceno.

Reviews the book, "La familia espanola en el ano 2000. Innovacion y respuesta de las familias a sus condiciones economicas, politicas y culturales (The Spanish Family in the year 2000. Innovation and Response of families to Their Economic, Political and Cultural Conditions)" by Victor Perez Diaz, Elisa Chulia and Celia Valiente. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "On Sociology. Numbers, Narratives and the Integration of Research and Theory," by John H. Goldthorpe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Cottons and Casuals: The Gendered Organisation of Labour in Time and Space," by Miriam Glucksmann.

Reviews the book "Economicheskaya Sociologiya: Kurs Lektsiy," by V.V. Radaev.

This is a review article on Goran Therborn's European Modernity and Beyond (1995), one of the most important recent analyses of the 'Trajectory of European Societies' in the second half of the twentieth century. The article discusses, by way of example, three general issues treated in Therborn's book: the pattern of socioeconomic development and growth; the issue of European versus national identity; and the (Nordic) welfare state as a model for Europe. Special emphasis is laid on the issue to what degree these processes are specific to Europe and how the theoretical-analytical, empirical and critical functions of sociology can be brought together in a fruitful way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Los Costes Invisibles de la Enfermedad," by Ángeles Durán.

Reviews the book "La Protección por Desempleo en España," by Jesús Arango Fern´ndez.

Reviews the book "Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice," by Bent Flyvbjerg.