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The article reviews the book "The Symmetrical Family: A Study of Work and Leisure in the London Region," by Michael Young and Peter Willmott.

Reviews two books on sociology. "Social Class in Modern Britain," by Gordon Marshall, Howrad Newby, David Rose and Carolyn Vogler; "Social Stratification and Economic Change," edited by David Rose.

Jeanne Gregory, Sex, Race and the Law: Legislating for Equality London: Sage Publications, 1987, 216 pp., £22.50 h.b., £7.95 p.b. Camilla Palmer and Kate Poulton, Sex and Race Discrimination in Employment London: Legal Action Group, 1987, 189 pp., £14 p.b. John W. Shaw, Peter G. Nordlie and Richard M. Shapiro (eds), Strategies for Improving Race Relations: The Anglo‐American Experience Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987, 226 pp., £25 h.b. Nuala Mole, Immigration, Family Entry and Settlement Bristol: Jordan and Sons Ltd., 1987, 181 pp., £7.50 p.b. Peter Townsend & Nick Davidson (eds)/Margaret Whitehead, Inequalities in Health: A single volume comprising ‘The Black Report’ and ‘The Health Divide’ London: Penguin, 1988, xii + 399 pp., £4.99 p.b. DHSS (1980) Inequalities in Health ‐ Report of a research working group, London: Department of Health & Social Security Townsend P. & Davidson N. (1982) Inequalities in Health — the Black Report, Harmonsvvorth: Penguin Bill Taylor (ed) Ethnicity and Prejudice in ‘White Highlands’ Schools, Perspectives 35 University of Exeter, School of Education, 1987 87pp., £2.00 p.b. Vaughan Bevan, The Development of British Immigration Law Beckenham: Croom Helm, 1986, 443pp., £29.95 h.b. Gajendra K. Verma and D.S. Darby, Race, Training and Employment Lewes: Falmer Press, 1987, 134 pp., £14.95 cloth; £7.95 p.b. Constance Lever‐Tracy and Michael Quinlan, A Divided Working Class: Ethnic Segmentation and Industrial Conflict in Australia London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1988, 338 pp., £25 h.b., £10.95 p.b. Hugh Tinker, Men Who Overturned Empires Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1987, 272 pp., £29.50 h.b. Anthony H. Richmond, Immigration and Ethnic Conflict Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988, 218 pp., £27.50 h.b. George Gaskell and Robert Benewick (eds), The Crowd in Contemporary Britain London: Sage Publications, 1987, 273 pp., £8.95 p.b. John Benyon and John Solomos, The Roots of Urban Unrest Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1987, 207 pp., £22 h.b., £7.95 p.b. Noor Kumar Mahabir, The Still Cry: Personal Accounts of the East Indians in Trinidad and Tobago during Indentureship (1845–1917) Tarariqua, Trinidad: Cataloux Publications, 1985, 191 pp., n.p. Lauretta Ngcobo (ed), Let It Be Told London: Pluto Press, 1987, 160 pp., £12.95 h.b. David Dabydeen, Hogarth's Blacks: Images of Blacks in Eighteenth Century English Art Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987, 158 pp., £25 h.b., £10.95 p.b. Robert Jackson & Dermot Killingley, Approaches to Hinduism London: John Murray, 1988, 245 pp., £8.95 p.b. V.P. Kanitkar, We are Hindus Edinburgh: The Saint Andrew Press, 1987, 166 pp., £5.25 p.b. J.S. Sachar (ed), Asian Directory & Who's Who International, 3rd ed., 1987–88 Ilford, Essex: Asian Observer, 1987, 208 pp., £8.50 p.b., £18.50 h.b. David Bowen, The Sathya Sai Baba Community in Bradford: its origin and development, religious beliefs and practices Leeds: University of Leeds, Community Religious Project Monograph 3, 1988, 413 pp., £7.50 p.b. Geoff Dench, Minorities in the Open Society: Prisoners of Ambivalence London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986, 275 pp., £15.95 h.b. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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Reviews the books "Three Styles in the Study of Kinship," by J.A. Barnes and "Kinship," edited by Jack Goody.

Reviews two books. "Families and Their Relatives, Kinship in a Middle-Class Sector of London: An Anthropological Study," by Raymond Firth, Jane Hubert and Anthony Forge, and "American Kinship: A Cultural Account," by David M. Schneider.

Reviews the book "Sociology and Its Publics, the Forms and Fates of Disciplinary Organization," edited by T.C. Halliday and M. Janowitz.

Reviews the book "Craftways: On the Organization of Scholarly Work," by Aaron Wildavsky.

Reviews the book "The Research Relationship," edited by G. Clare Wenger.

Reviews the book "The Colored Worker in British Industry," by Peter Wright.

Reviews the book "A Family Business: Kinship and Social Control in Organized Crime," by F.A.J. Ianni and E.R. Ianni.

Reviews the book "Men in Mid-Career: A Study of British Managers and Technical Specialists," by Cyril Sofer.

Reviews the book "Ethics, Politics, and Social Research," edited by Gideon Sjoberg.

Reviews the book "Small Town in Mass Society: Class, Power and Religion in a Rural Community," by A. J. Vidich and J. Bensman.

The article reviews the book "The God Species: How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans," by Mark Lynas.

Reviews the book "Methodological Imaginations," edited by E. Stina Lyon and Joan Busfield.

Reviews the book "Craft, Class and Control: The Sociology of a Shipbuilding Community," by Ian Roberts.

Reviews the book "The Confidence Gap: Business, Labor and Government in the Public Mind," by Seymour Martin Lipset and William Schneider.

Reviews the book "Profiles and Critiques in Social Theory," by Anthony Giddens.

Reviews the book "Research Methods for Elite Studies," edited by George Moyser and Margaret Wagestaffe.

Reviews the book "Patrons and Clients," edited by Ernest Gellner and John Waterbury.

Reviews the book "Pitmen, Preachers and Politics: The Effects of Methodism in a Durham Mining Community," by Robert Moore.

Reviews the book "Enter the Sociologist," edited by N.P. McKeganey and S. Cunningham-Burley.

Reviews several books on social conditions in Australia. "Black, White or Brindle: Race in Rural Australia," by Gillian Cowlishaw; "Australian Multiculturalism: A Documentary History and Critique," by Lois Foster and David Stockley; "Australians and British: Social and Political Connections," edited by J.D.B. Miller.

Reviews the book "The Family," by Robert O. Blood.

Reviews the book 'The City in the Third World,' edited by D.J. Dwyer.

Reviews the book "Sex, Career, and Family," by Michael Fogarty, Rhona Rapoport, and Robert N. Rapoport.

Reviews the book "Whose City? and Other Essays on Sociology and Planning," by R.E. Pahl.

Reviews the book "Sociology of Marriage and Family Behavior," by John Mogey.

Reviews the book "Family Interaction," by Ralph H. Turner.

Reviews the book "Communities in Disaster," by Allen H. Barton.

Reviews the book "The Family in Soviet Russia," by H. Kent Geiger.

Reviews the book "Family Structure in Nineteenth Century Lancashire," by Michael Anderson.

Reviews the book "Social Research in Bethnal Green: An Evaluation of the Work of the Institute of Community Studies," by Jennifer Platt.

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

Reviews the book "Neighborhoods People and Community," by Roger S. Ahlbrandt.

Reviews the book "Social Theory and the Family," by D. H. J. Morgan.

Reviews the book "Loss and Change," by Peter Marris.

Reviews the book "Marriage and Divorce," edited by Christopher Macy.

Reviews the book "Interpersonal Dynamics: Essays and Readings on Human Interaction," by Warren Bennis.