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The article reviews the book "Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change," edited by Philip McMichael.

Reviews the book "Knowledge, Education, and Cultural Change: Papers in the Sociology of Education," edited by Richard Brown.

Philip Cushman's collection of papers showcased in his recent book, "Travels with the Self: Interpreting Psychology as Cultural History" coalesce to form a strong critique of psychotherapist/psychoanalytic practitioners, and their compliance with socio-political norms and expectations. As Cushman sees it, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts have gone from being critics of the system to being agents of the system, pushing patients to adjust to social norms. Since Cushman is a hermeneutic philosopher, Heidegger - the founder of ontological hermeneutics - is important to Cushman. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book "Max Weber on Charisma and Institution Building. Selected Papers," edited by S.N. Eisenstadt.

Reviews the book "Tribal Communities and Social Change," edited by Pariyaram M. Chacko.

A review of the book "Advancing DEI and Creating Inclusive Environments in the Online Space," edited by Nina M. McCune, is presented.

The article reviews the book "Volume IV: Symbol of the Movement, January 1957-December 1958," edited by Clayborne Carson.

Reviews the book "Institution Building: A Model for Applied Social Change," by D. Woods Thomas, Harry R. Potter and William L. Miller, and edited by Adrian F. Abeni.

Reviews the book "Mexico: Dilemmas of Transition," edited by Neil Harvey.

Reviews the book "Social Change & Aging in the Twentieth Century," edited by Daniel E. Alleger.

Margaret Thatcher regarded it as a 'communist concept', but class has returned to the public agenda with both media interest and academic inquiry. Evans brings a new take to an old debate about the boundary between the petty bourgeoisie and the working class and its implications for theory and practice. This review examines his argument that the petty bourgeoisie is bigger and more important than generally understood and has a key role to play in the likelihood of radical social change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Social Change in the Capitalist World Economy," edited by Barabara Hockey Kaplan.

Reviews the book "Knowledge and Policy: The Uncertain Connection," edited by Laurence E. Lynn.

Reviews the book "Social Theory and Economic Change," edited by Tom Burns and S.B. Saul.

Reviews the book "The Nature of Work: Sociological Perspectives," edited by Kai Erikson and Steven Peter Vallas.

Reviews the book "Social Change, Social Policy and Social Work in the New Europe," by Anna Kwak and Robert Dingwall.

A review of the book "Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies," by Andrea Ritchie, is presented.

There are few sociology texts that acquire truly seminal status. This brief paper, however, reflects on one of the most celebrated and often cited works in British urban sociology. It seeks to explain: (1) the book's initial impact on debates and research in the field of ‘race and ethnic relations’; (2) the key controversies sparked by its theoretical positioning; and (3) why, and in what ways, it remains of relevance almost half a century after it was written. It concludes that there are two reasons for its continued appeal and significance. First, it placed housing firmly at the centre of debates about the position of Britain's migrant communities; second, it illustrates the potential of sociological research. At a time when controversies rage about ‘impact’, here is a work that not only contributed to our theoretical understanding of contemporary society, but also illustrated the value of ‘public sociology’ by engaging with the polity to bring about social change. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews the book "Consuming China: Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary China," edited by Kevin Latham, Stuart Thompson and Jakob Klein.

Reviews the book 'Settlement and Social Change in Asia. Volume 1 of Collected Papers of Wolfram Eberhard.'

Reviews the book "Perspectives in Development Change," edited by Art Gallaher Jr.

Reviews the book "Social Change," by Richard T. La Piere.

The article reviews the book "Discourse and Contemporary Social Change," edited by Norman Fairclough.

The article presents information related to the research paper entitled "Rural Crisis and the Reproduction of Family Systems: Celibacy As a Problem in the Aragonese Pyrenees." In this paper the changing status of celibacy within the context of socio-economic transformations in the Aragonese Pyrenees of Spain has been analyzed. The paper shows that although celibacy and migration have been present in the area for many years, they have only come to constitute a problem at a conscious level since the economic crisis has prevented these Pyrenean highlanders from emigrating.

Reviews the book "Social Interest and Categorical Structure: Conceptions of History and Social Change," by Jeffers Chertok.

Reviews the book "China: The 80s Era," edited by Norton Ginsburg and Bernard A. Lalor.

Reviews the book "Reflections on Economic Development and Social Change: Essays in Honor of Professor V.K.R.V. Rao," edited by C.H. Hanumantha Rao and P.C. Joshi.

Reviews the book "Rural Social Change: A Textbook in Rural Sociology," by David Edgar Lindstrom.

Reviews the book "Social Change in Latin America Today: Its Implications for United States Policy," by Richard N. Adams.

Reviews the book "The Theory of Social Change: Four Views Considered," by John McLeish.

Reviews the book "Social Change in Modern Africa," edited by Aidan Southall.

Reviews the book "Social Change," by Richard T. La Piere.

This article is intended as a precis of The Main Enterprise of the World and hopes to orient those who have not read it to the symposium discussion that follows. It outlines my own version of a radical rethinking of education. Instead of holding that educational systems should be shaped so as to satisfy socio-economic constraints, interpreted narrowly in recent decades to emphasize the preparation of the young to compete in the global economy, it proposes to view education as 'the main enterprise of the world' (in Emerson's resonant phrase). I attempt to harmonize three important educational goals: equipping people to maintain themselves; providing the opportunity for fulfilling lives; and creating citizens who can live and work together to sustain democratic societies. The notion of fulfillment is elaborated by following J. S. Mill in emphasizing individual freedom to 'pursue one's own good in one's own way', and requiring the chosen project to contribute to a transhistorical pan-human enterprise. This requires a serious probing of the concept of autonomy. I argue that the reworked notion is closely linked to capacities for democratic deliberation, and, like Dewey, I view regular exchanges among citizens as crucial for genuine democracy. In light of these perspectives, shifts in the labor market, brought about by increasing automation, provide the opportunity for people to undertake rewarding (and properly respected) service work, participating throughout their lives in the education of others. The resulting position has curricular consequences, and these in turn require social and economic changes. I conclude by defending the approach I have sketched against charges of utopianism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Processes and Phenomena of Social Change," edited by Gerald Zaltman.

Reviews the book "Who Will Pay? Coping With Aging Societies, Climate Change, and Other Long-Term Fiscal Challenges," by Peter S. Heller.

The article reviews the book "Studies in Social Change," by Amitai Etzioni.

The article reviews the book "Vilyatpur 1848-1968: Social and Economic Change in a North Indian Village," by Tom G. Kessinger .