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The article reviews the book "Sociology of Memory: Papers From the Spectrum," edited by Noel Packard.

Reviews the book "Philosophical Papers," edited by P. K. Feyerabend.

Reviews the book "A Guide to Writing Sociology Papers," by C. Coiner, A. Dallalfar, L. Frohmann, R. Giarrusso, N.A. Matthews, J. Richlin-Klonsky, W.G. Roy and E. Strenski.

Reviews the book "Reflexive Sociology: Working Papers in Self-Critical Analysis," by Larry T. Reynolds.

Reviews the book "Certainties and Doubts: Collected Papers, 1962-1985," by George Caspar Homans.

This article lists several books related to sociology that appeared in the December 1986 issue of "Canadian Journal of Sociology."

Reviews the book "A Guide to Writing Sociology Papers," 2nd ed.

The article reviews the book "Sociology of Memory: Papers From the Spectrum," edited by Noel Packard.

Reviews the book "Sociocybernetics: Complexity, Dynamics and Emergence in Social Science," edited by F. Geyer.

The article reviews the book "Living in a Material World: Economic Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies," edited by Trevor Pinch and Richard Swedberg.

Reviews the book "Reflexive Sociology: Working Papers in Self-Critical Analysis," by Lary T. Reynolds.

The article reviews the book "The Race of Time: The Charles Lemert Reader," by Charles Lemert, edited by Daniel Chaffee and Sam Han.

The article reviews the book "Freud and American Sociology," by Philip Manning.

Reviews the book "Measurement in the Social Sciences: Theories and Strategies," by Hubert M. Blalock.

Reviews the book "The Sociology of the Professions: Lawyers, Doctors and Others," edited by R. Dingwall and P. Lewis.

Reviews the book "The Social Contexts of Method," edited by Michael Brenner, Peter Marsh and Marylin Brenner.

Review of "Understanding Terrorism: Analysis of Sociological and Psychological Aspects; Dr. Renee Garfinkel, reviewer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article comments on several articles about the phenomena of war and peace in relation to sociology. Several authors recognize the threat posed to Marxism by the phenomenon of war. Weaker sociologists will take refuge in useful phrases, such as relative autonomy, uneven development and determination in the last instance. One of the legacies of Marxism is the division between base and superstructure, and its idea that political decisions are the effects, but not the causes of economic change. Class analysis comes to the fore only in two papers, one by John Mattausch, the other by Graham Day. Mattauch's unconcealed nostalgia for mass working class support sits unhappily with the fact that the majority of activists are state class radicals. Other papers are more interested in peace movements than in peace. They make no reference to the actual effect of such movements, for example, in contributing to the pre-war strategy of Adolph Hitler. Only one paper offers a definition of war. This occurs as a prelude to David Riches' discussion of the peaceful Eskimos. War, according to Riches, is the authorized employment of physical force against other persons, as means by which groups competing for control of public resources and benefits attempt to influence the outcome of the competition in their favor.

Reviews the book "Perspectives on Canada's Population: An Introduction to Concepts and Issues," edited by Frank Trovato and Carl F. Grindstaff.

Sociology is a discipline that helps us understand the social reality, the institutions, the deviance, the delinquency, and so on. As it is considered to be an important field especially nowadays, Antonio Sandu through his work "Introduction to Sociology" acquaints us with a series of fundamental concepts of this field, by bringing sociology to the level of socio-human disciplines that must be studied not only by a social category, namely the students, but by all those interested in this topic. In this paper we will review the book "Introduction to Sociology" by Antonio Sandu. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "The Sociology of Death," edited by David Clark.

Reviews the book "Sociology of Health and Illness," edited by Michael Bury and Jonathan Gabe.

Reviews the book "Perspective on the Social Sciences in Canada."

Reviews the book "Sociological Methodology 1985," edited by Nancy Brandon.

The article reviews the book "Writing in Sociology," by Mark Edwards.

The article reviews various books on contemporary sociology including "Cities and Labor Immigration: Comparing Policy Responses in Amsterdam, Paris, Rome and Tel Aviv," by Michael Alexander, "On the Market: Strategies for a Successful Academic Job Search," by Sandra L. Barnes, and "Religious Interests in Community Conflict: Beyond the Culture Wars," edited by Paul A. Djupe and Laura R. Olsen.

West Wales and the Valleys is approaching the mid-way point of its European funded Objective 1 programme—the highest form of Structural Fund aid for the Union's economically and socially ‘lagging’ regions. Objective 1 has afforded Wales the tools to develop an economic regeneration strategy aimed at improving the performance of the western part of the Welsh economy, and combating the country's entrenched pockets of economic and social disadvantage. However, after three years there are some important structural and implementation problems facing those managing Objective 1 in Wales, specifically in terms of the governance of the programme and resource allocation. This paper draws out these key issues by tracing the main fault lines in the design and delivery of the programme, and also offers some critical assessment of the initial economic impact of Objective 1. In short, this paper argues that Wales has shown little evidence of learning the lessons from other Objective 1 regions, but has been rather more adept at emulating the errors found elsewhere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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

The article reviews the book "Dynamics of Deprivation," by Zsuzsa Ferge and S. M. Miller.

Reviews the book "Macro-Micro Linkages in Sociology," edited by Joan Huber.

Reviews the book "On Work, Race and the Sociological Imagination," by Everett C. Hughes and edited by Lewis A. Coser.

Reviews the book "German Jewry: Its History and Sociology: Selected Essays by Werner J. Cahnman," edited by Joseph B. Maier, Judith Marcus and Zoltan Tarr.

Reviews the book "Language and Social Situations," edited by Joseph P. Forgas.

Reviews the book "Indicator Systems for Political, Economic and Social Analysis," edited by Charles Lewis Taylor.

This paper examines a maritime community currently undergoing change as it has increased contact with mainstream institutions. Based on participant observation techniques, it concentrates on the interplay of change pressures and resistance mechanisms, which results in tension on the institutional level and ambivalence on the individual level. Vertical ties to mainstream institutions are becoming more important than community horizontal ones, calling into question the power of the sole decision-making institution on the Island, the church, and overloading existing mechanisms of social control. Questions are raised concerning how the community will become more tightly linked into mainstream society. Two outcomes--"seasonal autonomy" and "museum community"--are viewed as possibilities, depending on whether control of the linkage is with development capital or the state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Trying Sociology," by Kurt H. Wolff.

This paper explores Virdee’s account of how racialized minorities in socialist movements ‘played an instrumental role in trying to align struggles against racism with those against class exploitation’ (p. 164). In so doing, Virdee makes an important intervention at a time when popular historians and other ideologues are colluding in the elevation of myths and – no doubt in their view – noble lies that preclude these stories. Moving through theoretical debates concerning the relationships between race and class, the nature and form of sociologies of ‘outsiders’, to political issues of mobilization, Virdee’s book successfully brings in from the margins an account the multi-ethnic character of the working class in England from the very moment of its inception. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews several books including "Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective" by Paul Burkett, "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate" by Naomi Klein, and "The Capitalism Papers: Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System" by Jerry Mander.

Reviews the book "Constructing Social Life: Readings in Behavioral Sociology From the Iowa School," by Carl J. Couch and Roberta Hintz.

Reviews the book "Regional Variation in Modern Greece and Cyprus," edited by M. Dimen and E. Fridedl.

Reviews the book "On Time and Method," by Janice R. Kelly and Joseph E. McGrath.

Reviews the book "Classifying Social Data: New Applications of Analytic Methods for Social Science Research," edited by H.C. Hudson.

Reviews the book "Qualitative and Quantitative Social Research," edited by Robert K. Merton, James S. Coleman and Peter H. Rossi.

Reviews the book "Sociology and Teacher Education: A Symposium," edited by Ivan Reid and Eileen Wormald.

The article reviews the book "Family, State and Individual Economic Security," edited by M. T. Meulders-Klein and J. Eekelaar

The article reviews the book "The Sociology of Development," edited by B. R. Roberts, R. G. Cushing and C. Woods.