Sociological Research Online

A New Sociology of Work? (Sociological Review Monographs)
Pettinger, Lynne, Parry, Jane, Taylor, Rebecca and Glucksmann, Miriam
Reviewed by Andrew Smith

Introducing Gender & Women's Studies
Richardson, Diane and Robinson, Victoria
Reviewed by Wendy Jones

Working Class Lesbian Life: Classed Outsiders (Women's Studies at York)
Taylor, Yvette
Reviewed by Alison Rooke

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Volume 13(3) published on 30 May 2008

Social and Cultural Constructions of Ageing: the Case of the Baby Boomers
Chris Phillipson, Rebecca Leach, Annemarie Money and Simon Biggs

Balancing Food Risks and Food Benefits: the Coverage of Probiotics in the UK National Press
Brigitte Nerlich and Nelya Koteyko

How Has Educational Expansion Changed the Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Achieving Professional, Managerial and Technical Class Positions in Britain? a Configurational Analysis
Barry Cooper and Judith Glaesser

Death Metaphors and the Secularisation Debate: Towards Criteria for Successful Social Scientific Analogies
Ed Dutton

Interpreting Compliance and Resistance to Medical Dominance in Women's Accounts of Their Pregnancies
Rachel Westfall and Cecilia Benoit

From Institutional Racism to Community Cohesion: the Changing Nature of Racial Discourse in Britain
Andrew Pilkington

Building the Hydrogen Highway: the Visions of a Large-Scale Hydrogen Project in Norway
Hogne Sataøen

Using Software in Qualitative Research: a Step-By-Step Guide
Lewins, Ann and Silver, Christina
Reviewed by Ivano Bruno

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Volume 13(1) published on 28 Mar 2008

'I've Always Managed, That's What We Do': Social Capital and Women's Experiences of Social Exclusion
Victoria K. Gosling

'Us' and 'Them': Terrorism, Conflict and (O)ther Discursive Formations
Steven Talbot

Researching Drug Sellers: an 'Experiential' Account from 'the Field'
Jenni Ward

Throwing the Baby out with the Bathwater: Towards a Sociology of the Human-Animal Abuse 'Link'?
Nik Taylor and Tania Signal

'I Don't Think That Does Leave You, Because It's About Where You Come From': Exploring Class in the Classroom
John Kirk

'If the Food Looks Dodgy I Dinnae Eat It': Teenagers' Accounts of Food and Eating Practices in Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Families
Wendy Wills, Kathryn Backett-Milburn, Sue Gregory and Julia Lawton

Editorial Introduction: Special Section on Methodology and LGBT People
Bob Cant and Ann Taket

Finding the Way to the End of the Rainbow: a Researcher's Insight Investigating British Older Gay Men's Lives
Adrian Lee

Navigating Queer Street: Researching the Intersections of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) Identities in Health Research
Julie Fish

Researching Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Christians and Muslims: Some Thematic Reflections
Andrew K. T. Yip

Standpoint, Objectivity, and Social Construction: Reflections from the Study of Gay and Lesbian Communities
Mike Homfray

Women Parenting Together: a Reflexive Account of the Ways in Which the Researcher's Identity and Experiences May Impact on the Processes of Doing Research
Kathryn Almack

Shifting Positionalities: Empirical Reflections on a Queer/Trans of Colour Methodology
Jin Haritaworn

Researching Same Sex Domestic Violence: Constructing a Survey Methodology
Melanie McCarry, Marianne Hester and Catherine Donovan

The Sociology of Lesbian and Gay Reflexivity or Reflexive Sociology?
Brian Heaphy

Selling My Queer Soul or Queerying Quantitative Research?
Kath Browne

Mixed Communities Require Mixed Theories: Using Mills to Broaden Goffman's Exploration of Identity Within the GBLT Communities
Dann Hoxsey

Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo
Bazeley, Patricia
Reviewed by Steven Martin

TransForming Gender: Transgender Practices of Identity, Intimacy and Care
Hines, Sally
Reviewed by Julie Harpin

Identity and Repartnering After Separation
Lampard, Richard and Peggs, Kay
Reviewed by Christina Lancucki

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Volume 12(6) published on 15 Jan 2008

Collective Representations, Divided Memory and Patterns of Paradox: Mining and Shipbuilding
Ian Roberts

Bourdieu: Preface
Michalis Lianos

The Online Student: Lurking, Chatting, Flaming and Joking
Kate Orton-Johnson

'Piggy in the Middle': the Liminality of the Contract Researcher in Funded 'Collaborative' Research
Farida Tilbury

Parental Help-Seeking and the Moral Order. Notes for Policy-Makers and Parenting Practitioners on 'the First Port of Call' and 'No One to Turn To'
Karen Broadhurst

Patterns of Absolute and Relative Social Mobility: a Comparative Study of England, Wales and Scotland
Lindsay Paterson and Cristina Iannelli

How Middle-Class Parents Help Their Children Obtain an Advantaged Qualification: a Study of Strategies of Teachers and Managers for Their Children's Education in Hong Kong Before the 1997 Handover
Yi-Lee Wong

Cultural Capital, Cultural Knowledge and Ability
Alice Sullivan

Critical Sociology and Social History
Eric Hobsbawm

Raisonnements Circulaires : Retour Nostalgique à Lévy-Bruhl
Mary Douglas

Habitus and Reflexivity: Restructuring Bourdieu's Theory of Practice
Nicos Mouzelis

Bourdieu and Postcommunist Class Formation
William Outhwaite

La Distinction Indifférente
Christian Papilloud

Que Reste-T-Il Des Héritiers Et De La Reproduction (1964-1971) Aujourd'hui? Questions, Méthodes, Concepts Et Réception D'une Sociologie De L'éducation
Jean-Claude Passeron

Pierre Bourdieu: Episteme, Polity and Critique
Michalis Lianos

Towards a Theory of Constrained Relativism: Comparing and Combining the Work of Pierre Bourdieu, Mary Douglas and Michael Thompson, and Alan Fiske
Marco Verweij

Approaches to Social Enquiry: Advancing Knowledge
Blaikie, Norman
Reviewed by Simon Locke

Social Theory and Applied Health Research (Understanding Social Research S.)
Dyson, Simon and Brian Brown
Reviewed by Maria Desougi

"Stretching" Exercises for Qualitative Researchers
Janesick, Valerie J.
Reviewed by Samantha Holland

Sociology and Health Care: an Introduction for Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals
Sheaff, Mike
Reviewed by Edwin van Teijlingen

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Volume 12(5) published on 30 Sep 2007

Social Capital and Community Building Through the Internet: a Swedish Case Study in a Disadvantaged Suburban Area
Sara Ferlander and Duncan Timms

Textual Interaction as Sexual Interaction: Sexuality And/in the Online Interview
Danny Beusch

Inequality Within the Family: Cases of Selective Parents in Post-War Hong Kong
Yi-Lee Wong

Is Social Mobility an Echo of Educational Mobility? Parents' Educations and Occupations and Their Children's Occupational Attainment
Richard Lampard

Sociology And, of and in Web 2.0: Some Initial Considerations
David Beer and Roger Burrows

Bureaucracy and Beyond: the Impact of Ethics and Governance Procedures on Health Research in the Social Sciences
Kate Reed

Editors' Introduction: Gender, Sleep and the Life Course
Sara Arber, Jenny Hislop and Simon Williams

Power, Ideology and Resources Within Families: a Theoretical Context for Empirical Research on Sleep
Jan Pahl

Are Children Getting Enough Sleep? Implications for Parents
Luci Wiggs

Embodying and Embedding Children's Sleep: Some Sociological Comments and Observations
Simon Williams, Pam Lowe and Frances Griffiths

The Sleeping Lives of Children and Teenagers: Night-Worlds and Arenas of Action
Jo Moran-Ellis and Susan Venn

A Bed of Roses or a Bed of Thorns? Negotiating the Couple Relationship Through Sleep
Jenny Hislop

'It's Okay for a Man to Snore': the Influence of Gender on Sleep Disruption in Couples
Susan Venn

Who Are You Sleeping With? the Construction of Heteronormativity in Stories About Sleep in British Newspapers
Pam Lowe, Sharon Boden, Simon Williams, Clive Seale and Deborah Steinberg

Gender Roles and Women's Sleep in Mid and Later Life: a Quantitative Approach
Sara Arber, Jenny Hislop, Marcos Bote and Robert Meadows

Caring and Sleep Disruption Among Women in Italy
Emanuela Bianchera and Sara Arber

Theorising Sleep Practices and Later Life: Moving to Sheltered Housing
Eileen Fairhurst

The Meanings of Sleep: Stories from Older Women in Care
Brooke Davis, Bernadette Hood and Dorothy Bruck

The Social Significance of Sleep for Older People with Dementia in the Context of Care
Wendy Martin and Helen Bartlett

Online News: Journalism and the Internet
Allan, Stuart
Reviewed by Frank McMahon

The Devil Behind the Mirror: Globalization and Politics in the Dominican Republic
Gregory, Steven
Reviewed by Jonathan H. Westover

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Volume 12(4) published on 7 Aug 2007

Adulthood: the Contemporary Redefinition of a Social Category
Harry Blatterer

Environmental Injustice or Just the Lie of the Land: an Investigation of the Socio-Economic Class of Those at Risk from Flooding in England and Wales
Jane Fielding

Constructing Meaningful Lives: Biographical Methods in Research on Migrant Women
Umut Erel

Gender Life Course Transitions from the Nuclear Family in England and Wales 1981-2001
Lawrence Ware, Moira Maconachie, Malcolm Williams, Joan Chandler and Brian Dodgeon

Studying Society
Evans, Karen and King, Dave
Reviewed by Slawomir Mandes

Religion, Identity and Politics in Northern Ireland: Boundaries of Belonging and Belief
Mitchell, Claire
Reviewed by Gladys Ganiel

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Volume 12(3) published on 29 May 2007

(Re)Using Qualitative Data?
Niamh Moore

Changing Social Class Identities in Post-War Britain: Perspectives from Mass-Observation
Mike Savage

What's [Yet] to Be Seen? Re-Using Qualitative Data
Elizabeth B. Silva

'Re-Using' Qualitative Data: on the Merits of an Investigative Epistemology
Jennifer Mason

A Reflexive Account of Reusing Qualitative Data: Beyond Primary/secondary Dualism
Libby Bishop

Commentary on 'a Reflexive Account of Reusing Qualitative Data: Beyond Primary/secondary Dualism' (Libby Bishop)
Mildred Blaxter

Sociological Engagements with Computing: the Advent of E-Science and Some Implications for the Qualitative Research Community
Susan M. Hodgson and Tom Clark

Seduced or Sceptical Consumers? Organised Action and the Case of Fair Trade Coffee
Janette Webb

Epistemology, Structure and Urgency: the Sociology of Financial and Scientific Journalists
Geoff Cooper and Mary Ebeling

Ethnicity and Everyday Life (New Sociology) (New Sociology)
Karner, Christian
Reviewed by William Cross

Data Collection and Analysis 2nd Edition
Sapsford, Roger and Jupp, Victor (Editors)
Reviewed by Manish K. Thakur

Drugs in Britain: Supply, Consumption and Control
Simpson, M., Shildrick, T. & MacDonald, R. (eds.)
Reviewed by Edwin van Teijlingen

Gendering the Knowledge Economy: Comparative Perspectives
Walby, Sylvia, Heidi Gottfried, Karin Gottschall and Mari Osawa (eds)
Reviewed by Carrie Purcell

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Volume 12(2) published on 26 Mar 2007

Embarrassment as a Key Emotion in Young People Talking About Sexual Health
Edwin van Teijlingen, Jennifer Reid, Janet Shucksmith, Fiona Harris, Kate Philip, Mari Imamura, Janet Tucker and Gillian Penney

The Politics of Environmental Activism: a Case Study of the Cruise Industry and the Environmental Movement
Ross A. Klein

Narrating Ambivalence of Maternal Responsibility
Eija Sevón

Accessing Socially Excluded People — Trust and the Gatekeeper in the Researcher-Participant Relationship
Nick Emmel, Kathryn Hughes, Joanne Greenhalgh and Adam Sales

Unpacking Professional Trust – Dimensions of Trust in Swedish Auditors' Client Relations
Bengt Larsson

Politics, Responsibility and Risk: Editorial Introduction
Elizabeth Ettorre and Alison Anderson

Informed Consent and the Research Process: Following Rules or Striking Balances?
Rose Wiles, Graham Crow, Vikki Charles and Sue Heath

Sites of Memory or Aids to Multiculturalism? Conflicting Uses of Jewish Heritage Sites
David Clark

Politics, Responsibility and Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Jo Woodiwiss

The Body as Weapon: Bobby Sands and the Republican Hunger Strikes
Chris Yuill

'I Love You to the Bones': Constructing the Anorexic Body in 'Pro-Ana' Message Boards
Katie J. Ward

Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada
Bloemraad, Irene
Reviewed by Cristina Flesher Fominaya

Maintaining the Momentum: Promoting Life Chances Through the Early Years and Beyond
Delorenzi, Simone
Reviewed by Jean Charles Lagrée

Sibling Identity and Relationships (Relationships and Resources S.)
Hadfield, Lucy, Lucey, Helen, Mauthner, Melanie L. and Edwards, Rosalind
Reviewed by Yvette Taylor

The Moral Significance of Class
Sayer, Andrew
Reviewed by Jody Mellor

Social Security and Welfare: Concepts and Comparisons (Introducing Social Policy)
Walker, Robert
Reviewed by Vida Cesnuityte

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Volume 12(1) published on 31 Jan 2007

Female Involvement in the Miners' Strike 1984-1985: Trajectories of Activism
Jean Spence and Carol Stephenson

Preserving and Extending the Commodification of Football Supporter Relations: a Cultural Economy of Supporters Direct
David Kennedy and Peter Kennedy

Out and About: Negotiating the Layers of Being out in the Process of Disclosure of Lesbian Parenthood
Kathryn Almack

By Slow Degrees: Two Centuries of Social Reproduction and Mobility in Britain
Paul Lambert, Kenneth Prandy and Wendy Bottero

Changing Femininities, Changing Masculinities Social Change, Gender Identities and Sexual Orientations
Elisabetta Ruspini

''Sex Changes'? Paradigm Shifts in 'Sex' and 'Gender' Following the Gender Recognition Act?'
Stephen Whittle and Lewis Turner

Transmuting Gender Binaries: the Theoretical Challenge
Surya Monro

Transsexualism in Spain: a Cultural and Legal Perspective
Patrícia Soley-Beltran

Diversity in Uniform? - Gender and Sexuality Within the Berlin Police Force
Sonja M. Dudek

'It's Made a Huge Difference': Recognition, Rights and the Personal Significance of Civil Partnership
Beccy Shipman and Carol Smart

Doing Gender on and off the Pitch: the World of Female Football Players
John Harris

'Changing Marriage? Messing with Mr. In-Between?: Reflections Upon Media Debates on Same-Sex Marriage in Ireland'
Sean Reynolds

Negotiating 'Normal': the Management of Feminine Identities in Rural Britain
Fiona Gill

(Trans)Forming Gender: Social Change and Transgender Citizenship
Sally Hines

The WASS Collective: Gender Transformations in Higher Education
Cath Lambert, Amy Bell, Lucy Hawkins, Lorraine Kelleher, Jen Lexmond, Samantha Lyle, Astrid Nordin, Andrew Parker, Maud Perrier and Juliet Rayment

The Market (Key Concepts)
Aldridge, Alan
Reviewed by Stefan Bernhard

Keywords in Qualitative Methods: a Vocabulary of Research Concepts
Bloor, Michael and Wood, Fiona
Reviewed by Kevin Meethan

Social Psychology and Modernity
Johansson, Thomas
Reviewed by Sarah L. MacMillen

Designing Qualitative Research 4th Edition
Marshall, Catherine and Rossman, Gretchen
Reviewed by Markus Schweiger

The Disobedient Generation: Social Theorists in the Sixties
Sica, Alan and Turner, Stephen (eds.)
Reviewed by Igor Sádaba Rodríguez

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Volume 11(4) published on 20 Dec 2006

'Are My Bones Normal Doctor?' the Role of Technology in Understanding and Communicating Health Risks for Midlife Women
Eileen Green, Frances Griffiths and Di Thompson

Old, Poor and Alone in Palestine
Gabriella Lazaridis, A Findlay and F Zanoon

Codes of Cultural Belonging: Racialised National Identities in a Multi-Ethnic Scottish Neighbourhood
Satnam Virdee, Christopher Kyriakides and Tariq Modood

Social Capital as Network Capital: Looking at the Role of Social Networks Among Not-For-Profits
Christina Prell Not available for reviewing until Oct 2010

'The Basic Stuff of Our Memories': Embodying and Embedding Discipline
Julie Brownlie

Reflexivity and Researching National Identity
Robin Mann

'Is It Real Food?' Who Benefits from Globalisation in Tanzania and India?
Pat Caplan

Public Health and Rockefeller Wealth: Alliance Strategies in the Early Formation of Finnish Public Health Nursing
Ann Yrjälä
Reviewed by Edwin van Teijlingen

Zygmunt Bauman (Key Sociologists)
Blackshaw, Tony
Reviewed by Bruce C Wearne

Childhood and Human Value
Lee, Nick
Reviewed by Sharon Brennan

Interpreting Qualitative Data: Methods for Analyzing Talk, Text and Interaction 3rd Edition
Silverman, David
Reviewed by Helen Marson Smith

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Volume 11(3) published on 30 Sep 2006

The Time Economy of Parenting
Anne Gray

Questioning the Subject in Biographical Interviewing
Jennifer Harding

The Pop-Pickers Have Picked Decentralised Media: the Fall of Top of the Pops and the Rise of the Second Media Age
David Beer

'Betty Friedan: a Tribute'
Melissa Dearey

Friends, Neighbours and Distant Partners: Extending or Decentring Family Relationships?
Lynn Jamieson, David Morgan, Graham Crow and Graham Allan

Friendship and Formations of Sociality in Late Modernity: the Challenge of 'Post Traditional Intimacy'
Shelley Budgeon

Neighbourliness and Privacy on a Low Income Estate
Isabella Boyce

Love Lives at a Distance: Distance Relationships over the Lifecourse
Mary Holmes

What is 'the Problem' of Singleness?
Jan Macvarish

Friendship or Facilitation: People with Learning Disabilities and Their Paid Carers
Rebecca Pockney

Patterns in the Telling: Single Women's Intimate Relationships with Men
Jill Reynolds

On Not Living with a Partner: Unpicking Coupledom and Cohabitation
Sasha Roseneil

The Intimate Relationships of Contemporary Spinsters
Roona Simpson

Public Intimacy in Neighbour Relationships and Complaints
Elizabeth Stokoe

The Globalization of Sexuality
Binnie, Jon
Reviewed by Michael Gard

Science, Culture, and Society: Understanding Science in the Twenty-First Century
Erickson, Mark
Reviewed by Victoria Simpson

A Companion to Qualitative Research
Flick, Uwe; Ernst von Kardorff and Ines Steinke (Editors)
Reviewed by Will Gibson

Hard Labour: the Sociology of Parenthood
Gatrell, Caroline
Reviewed by Sarah Earle

Corruption : Anthropological Perspectives (Anthropology, Culture and Society)
Haller, Dieter and Shore, Cris (Editors)
Reviewed by John David Granger

Risk and Everyday Life
Tulloch, John and Deborah Lupton
Reviewed by Emma Pitchforth

Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis: a Comparative and Critical Introduction
Wooffitt, Robin
Reviewed by Brian Torode

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Volume 11(2) published on 3 Jul 2006

To Buy or Not to Buy: Family Dynamics and Children's Consumption
Julie Evans and Joan Chandler

Access Grid Nodes in Field Research
Nigel Fielding and Maria Macintyre

Configurations of Care Work: Paid and Unpaid Elder Care in Italy and the Netherlands
Miriam Glucksmann and Dawn Lyon

Research Identities: Reflections of a Contract Researcher
Jackie Goode

Families, Intimacy and Social Change: Editorial Introduction
Alison Anderson and Elizabeth Ettorre

Social Change and the Family
Chris Harris, Nickie Charles and Charlotte Davies

'Doing What is Right': Researching Intimacy, Work and Family Life in Glasgow, 1945-1960
Sue Innes and Linda McKie

Sociological Work on Violence: Gender, Theory and Research
Linda McKie

'Another Day, Another Demand': How Parents and Children Negotiate Consumption Matters
Sharon Boden

Beyond 'Juggling' and 'Flexibility': Classed and Gendered Experiences of Combining Employment and Motherhood
Jo Armstrong

Using Diaries for Social Reseach (Introducing Qualitative Methods Series.)
Alaszewski, Andy
Reviewed by Emma Uprichard

After Habermas: New Perspectives on the Public Sphere (Sociological Review Monograph)
Crossley, Nick and Roberts, John Michael
Reviewed by Mary Ebeling

The Struggle for Community in a British Multi-Ethnic Inner-City Area: Pandise in the Making (Mellen Studies in Sociology S.)
Farrar, Max
Reviewed by Graham Crow

Transitions in Context: Leaving Home, Independence and Adulthood
Holdsworth, David and Morgan, Clare
Reviewed by Helen Marson Smith

The Politics of Birth
Kitzinger, Sheila
Reviewed by Sirpa Wrede

Families in Society: Boundaries and Relationships
McKie, Linda and Cunningham-Burley, Sarah
Reviewed by Sharon Brennan

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Volume 11(1) published on 26 Apr 2006

Interpreting Trust: Abstract and Personal Trust for People Who Need Interpreters to Access Services
Rosalind Edwards, Claire Alexander and Bogusia Temple

Putting It into Practice: Using Feminist Fractured Foundationalism in Researching Children in the Concentration Camps of the South African War
Liz Stanley and Sue Wise

Conceptualising Intensive Caring Activities: the Changing Lives of Families with Young Disabled Children
Janice McLaughlin

Content, Context, Reflexivity and the Qualitative Research Encounter: Telling Stories in the Virtual Realm
Nicola Illingworth

Family and Peer Networks in Intimate and Sexual Relationships Amongst Teenagers in a Multicultural Area of East London
Shamser Sinha, Katherine Curtis, Amanda Jayakody, Russell Viner and Helen Roberts

Becoming Poor in Belgium and Britain: the Impact of Demographic and Labour Market Events
Caroline Dewilde

Time and the Prison Experience
Azrini Wahidin

Self-Organising Map Approach to Individual Profiles: Age, Sex and Culture in Internet Dating
Teemu Suna, Michael Hardey, Jouni Huhtinen, Yrjö Hiltunen, Kimmo Kaski, Jukka Heikkonen and Mika Ala-Korpela

'Pants to Poverty'? Making Poverty History, Edinburgh 2005
Hugo Gorringe and Michael Rosie

Marking the Moral Boundaries of Class
John Kirk

Psychology and Sociology Applied to Medicine (Illustrated Colour Text S.)
Porter, Michael, Abraham, Charles, Alder, Beth and Teijlingen, Edwin van
Reviewed by Katie Brittain

News Culture (Issues in Cultural & Media Studies)
Allan, Stuart
Reviewed by Philippa Hall

Genetic Governance
Bunton, Robin and Petersen, Alan (eds.)
Reviewed by Sirpa Wrede

The SAGE Handbook of Sociology
Calhoun, Craig, Rojek, Chris and Turner, Bryan
Reviewed by Yves Laberge

Intolerant Britain?
McGhee, Derek
Reviewed by Irwin Deutscher

Qualitative Research Practice
Seale, Clive, Gobo, Giampietro, Gubrium, Jaber F and Silverman, David
Reviewed by Edwin van Teijlingen

Gender Talk: Feminism, Discourse and Conversation Analysis
Speer, Susan A.
Reviewed by Kim Clark

Poor Transitions: Social Exclusions and Young Adults
Webster, Colin, Simpson, Donald, MacDonald, Robert, Abbas, Andrea, Cieslik, Mark, Shildrick, Tracy and Simpson, Mark
Reviewed by Yvette Taylor

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Volume 10(4) published on 9 Jan 2006

Exploring Intersections of Employment and Ethnicity Amongst British Pakistani Young Men.
Hasmita Ramji

Narratives of the Night: the Use of Audio Diaries in Researching Sleep
Jenny Hislop, Sara Arber, Robert Meadows and Susan Venn

Pervasive Uncertainty in Second Modernity: an Empirical Test
Peter Taylor-Gooby

Not Miser Not Monk: Begging, Benefits and the Free Gift
Tom Hall

What is Human Society? It is a Feeling Society: a Response to Gane and Scott.
Benet Davetian

Sociological Futures and the Sociology of Work
Tim Strangleman

Journalism: Critical Issues
Allan, Stuart (Editor)
Reviewed by Frank McMahon

The Sociology of Childhood (Sociology for a New Century Series) 2nd Edition
Corsaro, William A.
Reviewed by Melissa Dearey

Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
MacLeod, Jay
Reviewed by Sharon Brennan

The Sociology of Ethnicity
Malesevic, Sinisa
Reviewed by Sohinee Bhattacharya

On Secularization: Towards a Revised General Theory
Martin, David
Reviewed by Raf Vanderstraeten

Social Justice, Human Rights and Public Policy
McLachlan, Hugh V.
Reviewed by Pär Gustafsson

Handling Qualitative Data : a Practical Guide
Richards, Lyn
Reviewed by Mark Pearson

Sport and Society (Issues in Society)
Scambler, Graham
Reviewed by Dominic Malcolm

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Volume 10(3) published on 10 Nov 2005

Ethnicity, Class and the Earning Inequality in Israel, 1983-1995
Nabil Khattab

Patriots of the Future? a Critical Examination of Community Cohesion Strategies in Contemporary Britain
Derek McGhee

Accessing Habitus: Relating Structure and Agency Through Focus Group Research
Gill Callaghan

The Gap and How to Mind It: Intersections of Class and Sexuality (Research Note)
Yvette Taylor

Political Hyperlinking in South Korea: Technical Indicators of Ideology and Content
Han Woo Park, Mike Thelwall and Randolph Kluver

Coming Home to Love and Class
Paul Johnson and Steph Lawler

Research Ethics and the Governance of Research Projects: the Potential of Internet Home Pages
Martyn Denscombe

Telling Identity Stories: the Routinisation of Racialisation of Irishness
Elaine Moriarty

Understanding the Symbolic Idea of the American Dream and Its Relationship with the Category of 'Whiteness'
Manuel Madriaga

Media Coverage of Sociology
Annaliza Gaber

A Child of Its Time: Hybridic Perspectives on Othering in Sociology
Liz Stanley

Fallacies in the Critique of Disciplinary Sociology
John Scott

What is 'Human Society'?: a Response to Davetian
Nicholas Gane

Capturing the Livingness and Liveliness of Critique-In-Action
David Beer

Too Close for Comfort? 'Race'and the Management of Proximity, Guilt and Other Anxieties in Paid Domestic Labour
Esther Bott

Towards a Sociology of Endings
Graham Crow

Are We All Europeans Now? Local, National and Supranational Identities of Young Adults
Sue Grundy and Lynn Jamieson

The Captive Mother? the Place of Home in the Lives of Lone Mothers
Emma Head

From 'Goods' to 'Bads'? Revisiting the Political Economy of Risk
Gabe Mythen

Understanding Everyday Life
Bennett, Tony and Diane Watson (Editors)
Reviewed by Maria Desougi

The Art of Sociological Argument
Crow, Graham
Reviewed by Vivienne Boon

Society and Nature
Dickens, Peter
Reviewed by Yves Laberge

Social Work: Theory and Practice for a Changing Profession
Dominelli, Lena
Reviewed by Wing Hong Chui

Reflections on Research: the Realities of Doing Research in the Social Sciences
Hallowell, Nina , Lawton, Julia and Gregory, Susan
Reviewed by Anne Townsend

Social Dynamics of the Life Course
Heinz, Walter R. and Victor W. Marshall
Reviewed by Dorothy Pawluch

Virtual Methods: Issues in Social Research on the Internet
Hine, Christine (Editor)
Reviewed by Samantha Holland

From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society: New Theories of the Contemporary World
Kumar, Krishan
Reviewed by Marco Trentini

Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings
Newman, Katherine S.
Reviewed by Scott Davies

Using Social Theory : Thinking Through Research
Pryke, Michael, Rose, Gillian and Whatmore, Sarah
Reviewed by Peter Hilger

Introduction to Social Research: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
Punch, Keith F.
Reviewed by Sharon Brennan

A Pleasing Birth: Midwives and Maternity Care in the Netherlands
Vries, Raymond De
Reviewed by Peter McCaffery

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Volume 10(2) published on 20 Jul 2005

Applying Ragin's Crisp and Fuzzy Set QCA to Large Datasets: Social Class and Educational Achievement in the National Child Development Study
Barry Cooper

The Ghost of Patrick Geddes: Civics As Applied Sociology
Alex Law

Suicidal Masculinities
Jonathan Scourfield

Nice and Tidy: Translation and Representation
Bogusia Temple

Researching Hard-to Reach Populations: Privileged Access Interviewers and Drug Using Parents.
Nicola Jane Taylor and Jackie Kearney

A Critical Analysis of the Medical Model As Used in the Study of Pregnancy and Childbirth
Edwin van Teijlingen

Beyond the Science of 'Society'
John Urry

Towards an Emotionally Conscious Social Theory
Benet Davetian

Editorial Introduction to a Collection from the 2003 BSA Conference 'Social Futures: Desire, Excess and Waste' the Consumption and Waste Stream
Andrea Abbas, Steve Taylor, Tony Chapman, Dave Morland and Diane Nutt

Explaining Showering: a Discussion of the Material, Conventional, and Temporal Dimensions of Practice
Martin Hand, Elizabeth Shove and Dale Southerton

The Gentrification of Consumption: a View from Manchester
Joanne Massey

Sociology, Science and Sustainability: Developing Relationships in Scotland
Kirsty L. Blackstock, Elizabeth A. Kirk and Alison D. Reeves

Urban Consumption and Feelings of Attachment of Rotterdam's New Middle Class
Marco van der Land

What is Safe? Cultural Citizenship, Visual Culture and Risk
Nick Stevenson

The Reemergence of Self-Employment : a Comparative Study of Self-Employment Dynamics and Social Inequality
Arum, Richard and Muller, Walter (Editors)
Reviewed by Edward Granter

The Sociology of Education and Work
Bills, David B.
Reviewed by Raf Vanderstraeten

Social Research: Theory, Methods and Techniques
Corbetta, Piergiorgio
Reviewed by Edwin van Teijlingen

Sex and Manners : Female Emancipation in the West 1890 - 2000 (Theory, Culture and Society Series)
Wouters, Cas
Reviewed by Jenny Greener

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Volume 10(1) published on 16 Jun 2005

The Memory-History-Popular Culture Nexus: Pearl Harbor As a Case Study in Consumer-Driven Collective Memory
Patricia Leavy

The Geographical Mobility, Preferences and Pleasures of Prolific Punters: a Demonstration Study of the Activities of Prostitutes' Clients
Keith Soothill and Teela Sanders

The Diversity of State Benefit Dependent Lone Mothers: the Use of Type Categories As an Analytical Tool
Martina Klett-Davies

Toys for Boys? Women's Marginalization and Participation As Digital Gamers
Garry Crawford and Victoria K. Gosling

The Digital Revolution in Qualitative Research: Working with Digital Audio Data Through Atlas.Ti
Will Gibson, Peter Callery, Malcolm Campbell, Andy Hall and Dave Richards

Current Issues and Future Trends in Sociology: Extending the Debate in Sociological Research Online
Gayle Letherby

Sociology and Its Others: Reflections on Disciplinary Specialisation and Fragmentation
John Scott

Tsunami Diplomacy: Will the 26 December, 2004 Bring Peace to the Affected Countries?
Ilan Kelman

More Than Words: Some Reflections on Working Visually
Susan Halford and Caroline Knowles

Kalighat, the Home of Goddess Kali: the Place Where Calcutta is Imagined Twice: a Visual Investigation into the Dark Metropolis
Erica Barbiani

Social Life Under the Microscope?
Monika Büscher

The Fabric of Society: an Investigation of the Emotional and Sensory Experience of Wearing Denim Clothing
Fiona Candy

The Photograph in Theory
Elizabeth Chaplin

Photography: Making and Breaking Racialised Boundaries: an Essay in Reflexive, Radical, Visual Sociology.
Max Farrar

Cyberstalking: Harrassment in the Internet Age
Bocij, Paul
Reviewed by Jody Mellor

The Survey Methods Workbook
Buckingham, Alan and Peter Saunders
Reviewed by Iain Lang

Accomodating Diversity: National Policies That Prevent Ethnic Conflict
Deutscher, Irwin
Reviewed by Timothy J. White

Media, Politics and the Network Society
Hassan, Robert
Reviewed by Javier Alcade

Race and Social Analysis
Knowles, Caroline
Reviewed by Samantha Holland

Social Theory: the Multicultural and Classic Readings
Lemert, Charles
Reviewed by Melissa Dearey

Looking West: Cultural Globalization and Russian Youth Cultures
Pilkington, Hilary; Elena Omel'chenko; Moya Flynn; Ul'iana Bliudina; Elena Starkova
Reviewed by Harry Blatterer

Focus Group Practice
Puchta, Claudia and Jonathan Potter
Reviewed by Rosaline Barbour

Race, Ethnicity and Difference
Ratcliffe, Peter
Reviewed by Bertha Yakubu

Internet in Everyday Life
Wellman, Barry and Haythornthwaite, Caroline
Reviewed by Kris Cohen

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Volume 9(4) published on 25 Feb 2005

Sociological Practitioners Contributing to New Product Development: Mapping the Challenges
An Jacobs

The Order of Service: the Practical Management of Customer Interaction
Barry Brown

Oyster Coverage: Chiastic News As a Reflection of Local Expertise and Economic Concerns
Toby A. Ten Eyck and Forrest A. Deseran

Dead or Alive: the Discursive Massacre or the Mass-Suicide of Post-Soviet Intelligentsia?
Inna Kotchetkova

Back to the Future of Social Theory: an Interview with Nicholas Gane
David Beer and Nicholas Gane

Facilitating Social Networks Among Gay Men
Bob Cant

Adventures in Social Research: Data Analysis Using Spss 11.0/11.5 for Windows 5th Edition
Babbie, Earl; Fred Halley; Jeanne Zaino
Reviewed by Gill Gillespie

Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in North America and Western Europe
Brenner, Neil and Nik Theodore (Editors)
Reviewed by William Cross

Class Practices : How Parents Help Their Children Get Good Jobs
Devine, Fiona
Reviewed by John Reed

Qualitative Methods and Health Policy Research
Murphy, Elizabeth and Dingwall, Robert
Reviewed by Judith Green

Worlds of Health: Exploring the Health Choices of British Asian Mothers
Reed, Kate
Reviewed by Harshad Keval

Understanding Qualitative Research and Ethnomethodology
Have, Paul Ten
Reviewed by Yves Laberge

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Volume 9(3) published on 31 Aug 2004

Discursive Democracy and New Labour: Five Ways in Which Decision-Makers Manage Citizen Agendas in Public Participation Initiatives
Mike Williams

Attitudes, Care and Commitment: Pattern and Process
Sarah Irwin

Emotions After Dark - a Sociological Impression of the 2003 New York Blackout
Chris Yuill

Living Alone: Its Place in Household Formation and Change
Joan Chandler, Malcolm Williams, Moira Maconachie, Tracey Collett and Brian Dodgeon

'Rappin' on the Reservation: Canadian Mohawk Youth's Hybrid Cultural Identities
Robert Hollands

A Profile of Fatherhood Among Young Men: Moving Away from Their Birth Family and Closer to Their Child.
Anne Quéniart

'No Woman's Law Will Rot This State': the Israeli Racial State and Feminist Resistance
Ronit Lentin

Social Barriers to Peace: Socialisation Processes in the Radicalisation of the Palestinian Struggle
Stephen Vertigans

Global Aging and Challenges to Families
Bengtson, Vern L. and Ariela Lowenstein (Editors)
Reviewed by Henk Vinken

Making Sense of the Social World: Methods of Investigation
Chambliss, Daniel F and Russell K. Schutt
Reviewed by Roger John Sapsford

Advanced Quantitative Data Analysis
Cramer, Duncan
Reviewed by Stephen Brindle

Interpretive Interactionism (APPLIED SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODS SERIES)
Denzin, Norman K.
Reviewed by David Calvey

Emile Durkheim: Sociologist of Modernity
Emirbayer, Mustafa (Editor)
Reviewed by Mike Drake

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Volume 9(2) published on 28 May 2004

Researching Identities with Multi-Method Autobiographies
Anna Bagnoli

Labour Market Participation and Conditions of Employment: a Comparison of Minority Ethnic Groups and Refugees in Britain
Alice Bloch

Diasporicity in the City of Portsmouth (UK): Local and Global Connections of Black Britishness
Rajinder Dudrah

'it's As if You're Some Alien...' Exploring Anti-English Attitudes in Scotland.
Ian McIntosh, Duncan Sim and Douglas Robertson

Baudrillard on Simulations: an Exegesis and a Critique
Stanley Raffel

Global Visions and Globalizing Corporations: an Analysis of Images and Texts from Fortune Global 500 Companies
Peter Robbins

The Researcher, the Field and the Issue of Entry: Two Cases of Ethnographic Research Concerning Asylums in Greece
Manos Savvakis and Manolis Tzanakis

Consumed with Sleep? Dormant Bodies in Consumer Culture
Simon Williams and Sharon Boden

Social Research Methods and the Internet: a Thematic Review
Christine Hine

Remaking Social Work with Children and Families: A Critical discussion on the 'modernisation' of social care
Garrett, Paul Michael
Reviewed by Pamela Attree

Body, Culture and Society: An Introduction
Hancock, Philip, Bill Hughes, Elizabeth Jagger, Kevin Patterson, Rachel Russell, Emmanuelle Tulle-Winton, Melissa Tyler
Reviewed by Mark Sherry

Culture's Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions and Organizations Across Nations
Hofstede, Geert
Reviewed by Yves Laberge

Racism and Anti-Racism in Ireland
Lentin, Ronit and Robbie McVeigh (Editors)
Reviewed by Gavan Titley

Education, Social Status and Health
Mirowsky, John and Catherine E.Ross
Reviewed by Paul Lambert

Writing your Thesis
Oliver, Paul
Reviewed by Emma Pitchforth

Survey Research: The Basics
Punch, Keith F
Reviewed by Edwin van Teijlingen

Controlling Illegal Drugs: A Comparative Study
Segre, Sandro
Reviewed by Lawrie Elliott

Latex and Lingerie: Shopping for Pleasure at Ann Summers Parties
Storr, Merl
Reviewed by Samantha Holland

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Volume 9(1) published on 28 Feb 2004

‘Some of our people can be the most difficult’. Reflections on difficult interviews.
Sam Pryke

Towards a Sociology of Organizational Space
Susan Halford

By Name United, By Sex Divided: A Brief Analysis of the Current Crisis Facing the Anglican Communion
Andrew K. T. Yip and Michael Keenan

Cash-In-Hand Work: Unravelling Informal Employment From The Moral Economy Of Favours
Colin C. Williams

Trees Don't Talk: a Methodological Account of a Forest Sociologist in Mexico
Ross Mitchell

Negotiation and Navigation - an Exploration of the Spaces/Places of Working-Class Lesbians
Yvette Taylor

Doing the North-South splits: Post-modern Strain on a Pre-modern Institution
Robin Mutter

A UK Sociolinguistic Perspective: Gene, Jeffrey and Evangelical 'Broad Inclusion' Intersubjectivity
Noel Heather

Contested Knowledge: Social Theory Today - Third Edition
Seidman, Steven
Reviewed by Mark Sherry

The Asian Gang: Ethnicity, Identity, Masculinity
Alexander, Claire E
Reviewed by Steve Robertson

Advanced Focus Group Research
Fern, Edward F.
Reviewed by Dr Leslie Gofton

Cults, Religion and Violence
Bromley, David G and Gordon, J. Melton
Reviewed by Peter McCaffery

Megawords: 200 terms you really need to know
Osborne, Richard
Reviewed by Yves Laberge

The Orifice as Sacrificial Site
Aho, James
Reviewed by Victoria Land

Imperialism, Labour and the New Woman: Olive Schreiner's Social Theory
Stanley, Liz
Reviewed by Julian Robert

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Volume 8(4) published on 30 Nov 2003

The Christian Right and Homophobic Discourse: a Response to 'Evidence' That Lesbian and Gay Parenting Damages Children.
Stephen Hicks

Sexuality in the Church: toward a sociology of the Bible
John Brewer

Let Me Entertain You: Researching the 'Thirtysomething' Generation
Judith Burnett

The 'Intimate Father': Defining Paternal Involvement
Esther Dermott

After I've Done the Mum Things': Women, Care and Transitions
Sue Innes and Gill Scott

Review Article: Looking Back and Looking Forward: Some Recent Feminist Sociology Reviewed
Sue Wise and Liz Stanley

Communication, Conflict and Risk in the 21st Century: Critical Issues for Sociology
Alison Anderson

Persistence and Silence: A Narrative Analysis of Employee Responses to Organisational Change
Melanie Bryant

A Divergence of Views: Attitude change and the religious crisis over homosexuality
Alasdair Crockett and David Voas

Uneven Possibilities: Understanding Non-Heterosexual Ageing and the Implications of Social Change
Brian Heaphy and Andrew K. T. Yip

Social Change, Friendship and Civic Participation
Yaojun Li, Mike Savage and Andrew Pickles

Children, Belonging and Social Capital: The PTA and Middle Class Narratives of Social Involvement in the North-West of England
Gaynor R Bagnall, Brian John Longhurst and Mike Savage

Globalisation and the Future of Ageing: Developing a Critical Gerontology
Chris Phillipson

Older People's Perceptions of the Neighbourhood: Evidence from Socially Deprived Urban Areas
Thomas Scharf, Chris Phillipson and Allison Smith

Connecting Ethnicity, Agency and Ageing
Sharon Wray

Saints and Sinners: The Role of Conservative Christian Pressure Groups in the Christian Gay Debate in the UK
Stephen Hunt

Rethinking Adulthood: Families, Transitions, and Social Change
Jane Pilcher, John Williams and Chris Pole

Researching Ageing and Later Life
Jamieson, Anne and Christina R. Victor
Reviewed by Klas Borell

Making Families: Moral Tales of Parenting and Step-parenting
McCarthy, Jane Ribbens; Rosalind Edwards and Val Gillies
Reviewed by Sue Grundy

The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts
Goodwin, Jeff and James M. Jasper
Reviewed by Dr. Philip Sutton

Understanding Criminology Current Theoretical Debates
Walklate, Sandra
Reviewed by Eric Chui

Work in the New Economy: Flexible Labor Markets in Silicon Valley
Benner, Chris
Reviewed by Paula Cerni

Economic Sociology: State, Market and Society in Modern Capitalism
Trigilia, Carlo
Reviewed by Ann Vogel

The A-z of Social Research: a Dictionary of Key Social Science Research
Miller, Robert L. and Brewer, John D. (eds.)
Reviewed by Matthew David

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Volume 8(3) published on 22 Aug 2003

'Lifting up the Little Form': Victorian Images of Childhood and Death 1870-1900
Heather Paris

Risking the University? Learning to be a Manager-Academic in UK Universities
Rosemary Deem and Rachel Johnson

Making Connections: the Relationship between Train Travel and the Processes of Work and Leisure
Gayle Letherby and Gillian Reynolds

Changing Women, Unchanged Men? Sociological Perspectives on Gender in a Post-industrial Society
Delamont, Sara
Reviewed by Suki Ali

To Give their Gifts: Health, Community and Democracy
Couto, Richard with Stephanie C. Eken
Reviewed by Gayle Letherby

Feminist Methodology: Challenges and Choices
Ramazanoglu, Caroline
Reviewed by Lydia Lewis

Social Statistics for a Diverse Society
Frankfort-Nachmias, Chava and Anna Leon-Guerrero
Reviewed by Vida Cesnuityte

Gender and Social Theory
Evans, Mary
Reviewed by cc

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Volume 8(2) published on 20 May 2003

Dealing with Dirt: Servicing and Repairing Cars
Tim Dant and David Bowles

Moral Discrepancy and Political Discourse: Accountability and the Allocation of Blame in a Political News Interview
William Housley and Richard Fitzgerald

Ageing and Imagined Community: Some Cultural Constructions and Reconstructions
Stephen Conway

Survival Ethnic Entrepreneuers in Greece: a Mosaic of Informal and Formal Business Activities
Gabriella Lazaridis and Maria Koumandraki

Towards a Typology of Intergenerational Relations: Continuities and Change in Families
Julia Brannen

Engaging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies
Shweder, Richard; Minow, Martha and Hazel Rose Markus (Editors)
Reviewed by Irwin Deutscher

Media, Risk and Science
Allan, Stuart
Reviewed by Richard Michael Holliman

Postmodernism and Social Research
Alvesson, Mats
Reviewed by David Beer

The Protestant Ethic Debate: Max Webers Replies to his Critics, 1907-1910
Chalcraft, David J. and Austin Harrington (Editors)
Reviewed by Graham Crow

Surveying the Social World
Aldridge, Alan and Ken Levine
Reviewed by Stephen Brindle

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Volume 8(1) published on 26 Feb 2003

Clustering Local Tastes in Global Culture: The Reception Structure of Hollywood Films
Bum Soo Chon, George Barnett and Young Choi

Desire Lines: 'Queering' Health and Social Welfare
Stephen Hicks and Katherine Watson

The Use Of Complementary Therapies In Western Sydney
Ashwin Kumar

A Look at Changing Parental Ideologies & Behaviors in Japan
Cherylynn Bassani

On the Logic of 'New' Welfare Practice: An Ethnographic Case Study of the 'New Welfare Intermediaries'
Chris Allen

Ethics and the Ruling Relations of Research Production
Carole Truman

The Problem of Representation: Realism and Operationalism in Survey Research
Mike Williams

From The Culture of Matter to the Matter of Culture: Feminist Explorations of Nature and Science
Myra Hird

Understanding Probabilities and Re-Considering Traditional Research Training
Stephen Gorard

The Qualitative Researcher's Companion
Huberman, Michael A. and Matthew B Miles
Reviewed by Edwin van Teijlingen

Women's Working Lives in East Asia
Brinton, Mary C. (Editor)
Reviewed by Fiona Harris

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Volume 7(4) published on 26 Nov 2002

Social Science Gets the Ethics Treatment: Research Governance and Ethical Review
Emma Williamson, Julie Kent, Trudy Goodenough and Richard Ashcroft

Dancing and Wrestling with Scholarship: Things to do and things to avoid in a PhD Career
Les Back

'You Make Yourself Sound So Important' Fieldwork Experiences, Identity Construction, and Non-Western Researchers Abroad
Carolina Ladino

Who Suceeds and Who Flounders? Young People in East Europe's New Market Economies
Kenneth Roberts, G I Osadchaya, H V Dsuzev, V G Gorodyanenko and Jochen Tholen

The Consumption of Technology in Everyday Life: Car, Telephone, and Television in Sweden and America in Comparative-Historical Perspective
Ralph Schroeder

'Loved the Wedding, Invite Me to the Marriage': The Secularisation of Weddings in Contemporary Britain
John Walliss

Professional Work: A Sociological Approach
Leicht, Kevin and Mary L. Fennell
Reviewed by Keith Moray Macdonald

Medical Careers and Feminist Agendas: American, Scandinavian and Russian Women Physicians
Riska, Elianne
Reviewed by Fiona French

Child Victims of Homicide
Alder, Christine and Ken Polk
Reviewed by John Arundel Barnes

Dignity at Work
Hodson, Randy
Reviewed by Keith Moray Macdonald

Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality
Ahmed, Sara
Reviewed by Julie Wuthnow

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Volume 7(2) published on 28 Aug 2002

Degrees of Freedom: Do Graduate Women escape the Motherhood Gap in Pensions?
Jay Ginn and Sara L Arber

Following the Queen: The Place of the Royal Family in the Context of Royal Visits and Civil Religion.
Anne Rowbottom

The Failure of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) and the Voiding of Privacy
Felix Stalder

Community Matters: Reflections from the Field
Kirsty L. Blackstock

From Community To Communicative Policing: 'Signal Crimes' And The Problem Of Public Reassurance
Martin Innes and Nigel Fielding

'For Better or Worse?': Heterosexuality Reinvented
Jenny Hockey, Victoria Robinson and Angela Meah

Cyberscience and Social Boundaries: the Implications of Laboratory Talk on the Internet
Christine Hine

The Return of Assimilationism: Race, Multiculturalism and New Labour
Les Back, Michael J Keith, Azra Khan, Kalbir Shukra and John Solomos

The Piano in the Parlour: Methodological Issues in the Conduct of a Restudy
Charlotte Aull Davies and Nickie Charles

Knowing your Place: Gender and Reflexivity in two Ethnographies
Fiona Gill and Catherine Maclean

Making Hate a Crime: From Social Movement to Law Enforcement
Jenness, Valerie and Ryken Grattet
Reviewed by Mark Sherry

Globalization and Culture
Tomlinson,John
Reviewed by Hans Mommaas

Global Feminist Politics: Identities in a Changing World
Ali, Suki, Kelly Coate and Eangui Wa Goro
Reviewed by Susie Jacobs

Television, Globalization and Cultural Identities
Barker, Chris
Reviewed by Greg Nielsen

The Social Life of Avatars
Schroeder, Ralph
Reviewed by Nina Wakeford

Doing Visual Ethnography: Images, Media and Representation in Research
Pink, Sarah
Reviewed by Victoria D Alexander

What is Globalization?
Beck, Ulrich translated by Patrick Camiller
Reviewed by Hans Mommaas

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Volume 7(1) published on 27 May 2002

Modern Monarchy: a Comparative View from Denmark
Richard Jenkins

A Simulation of the Structure of the World-Wide Web
Moses Boudourides and Gerasimos Antypas

The Political Economy of Diversity: Diversity Programs in Fortune 500 Companies
John Ryan, James Hawdon and Allison Branick

Generations and Heritage: Reflections on the Queen Mother's Funeral
Janet Finch and David Morgan

The Campaign Against 'Live Exports' in the UK: Animal Protectionism, the Stigmatisation of Place and the Language of Moral Outrage
John Walls

God Save the Queen: The Pistols' Jubilee
Les Back

Concept Development in Sociology: A Comment on Steve Fuller's, 'Will Sociology find some New Concepts before the US finds Osama bin Laden?'
Stephen Vertigans and Phil Sutton

Religious Diversity and Multiculturalism in Southern Europe: The Italian Mosque Debate
Anna Triandafyllidou

Nostalgia for Nationalisation - the Politics of Privatisation
Tim Strangleman

Jubilee Mugs: The Monarchy and the Sex Pistols
Alex Law

Attacking the Cultural Turn: Misrepresentations of the Service Encounter
Steve Taylor

Step-Fathering: Comparing Policy and Everyday Experience in Britain and Sweden
Rosalind Edwards, Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Maren Bak and Jane Ribbens McCarthy

Constructing the Identities of 'Responsible Mothers, Invisible Men' in Child Protection Practice
Heather D'Cruz

Cosmopolitanism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship
Nick Stevenson

Royal Ageing: The Queen Mother and Queen Victoria
Mike Hepworth

Comprehensive Community Initiatives: Addressing a 'Problem' in Local Governance or Creating One?
Paul Crawshaw and Donald Simpson

Signing your life away?: Why Research Ethics Committees (REC) shouldn't always require written confirmation that participants in research have been informed of the aims of a study and their rights - the case of criminal populations. (Commentary)
Ross Coomber

Diana, Princess of Wales: The Contemporary Goddess
Helen Bramley

Social Theory in the Real World
Miles, Steven
Reviewed by Brian John Longhurst

Black Marks: Minority Ethnic Audiences and Media
Ross, Karen and Peter Playdon (Editors)
Reviewed by Ellis Cashmore

Changing Britain: Families and Households in the 1990s
McRae, Susan
Reviewed by David Morgan

Ethnic Minorities and the Media
Cottle, Simon
Reviewed by Ellis Cashmore

Global Multiculturalism: Comparative Perspectives on Ethnicity, Race and Nation
Cornwell, Grant H and Eve Walsh Stoddard (Editors)
Reviewed by Ellis Cashmore

The Chimera of Multiculturalism: Diversity and the Media
Watson, C W
Reviewed by Ellis Cashmore

Representing Black Britain; Black and Asian Images on Television
Malik, Sarita
Reviewed by Ellis Cashmore

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Volume 6(4) published on 26 Feb 2002

Opening and Closing the Gates: Recent Developments in Male Social Mobility in Britain
Geoff Payne and Judy Roberts

Teaching Social Theory in Trying Times
Joyce Ellen Canaan

'Austro-Pop' Since the 1980s: Two Case Studies of Cultural Critique and Counter- Hegemonic Resistance
Christian Karner

Confidence Amid Uncertainty: Ambitions and Plans in a Sample of Young Adults
Michael Anderson, Frank Bechhofer, Lynn Jamieson, David McCrone, Yaojun Li and Robert Paul Stewart

Will Sociology find some New Concepts before the US finds Osama bin Laden?
Steve Fuller

The Myth of Medical Pluralism: A Critical Realist Perspective
Gil-Soo Han

'Claims and Disclaimers: Knowledge, Reflexivity and Representation in Feminist Research'
Gayle Letherby

Fantasy City: Pleasure and profit in the postmodern metropolis
Hannigan, John
Reviewed by Joanne Massey

The Transnational Villagers
Levitt, Peggy
Reviewed by Neil Jeremy Washbourne

New Age Travellers: Vanloads of Uproarious Humanity
Hetherington, Kevin
Reviewed by Colin Clark

Bridging Divides; The Channel Tunnel and English Legal Identity in Europe
Darian-Smith, Eve
Reviewed by Adam Reed

Food, Drink and Identity: Cooking, Eating and Drinking in Europe since the Middle Ages
Scholliers, Peter (Editor)
Reviewed by Alan Warde

How Claims Spread: Cross-National Diffusion of Social Problems
Best, Joel (Editor)
Reviewed by Talmadge Wright

Citizenship in a Global Age: Society, Culture, Politics and the Transnational Villagers
Delanty, Gerard (Series Editor: Tim May)
Reviewed by Neil Jeremy Washbourne

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Volume 6(3) published on 28 Nov 2001

Understanding Consumption: What Interviews with Retired Households Can Reveal About Budgetary Decisions
Edmund Chattoe and Nigel Gilbert

Control Creep
Martin Innes

Looking for Sociology after 11 September
Steve Fuller

Moral Tensions Between Western and Islamic Cultures: The Need for Additional Sociological Studies of Dissonance in the Wake of September 11
Benet Davetian

Back to the Future: 'Islamic Terrorism' and Interpretations of Past and Present
Stephen Vertigans and Phil Sutton

Anti-nuclear Movements: Failed Projects or Heralds of a Direct Action Milieu?
Ian Welsh

The Lady Vanishes? Reflections on the Experiences of Married and Divorced Non- Heterosexual Fathers
Gillian Dunne

The Neglected Art of Hitch-hiking: Risk, Trust and Sustainability
Graeme Chesters and David Michael Smith

The Whispering Shadow: Collectivism and Individualism at Ikeda-Hoover and Nissan UK
Carol Stephenson and Paul Stewart

From Smart Bombs to Smart Bugs: Thinking the Unthinkable in Medical Sociology and Beyond
Simon Williams

The Paradigm Contingent Career? Women in Regional Newspaper Journalism
Meryl Aldridge

Confronting 'Uncivil Society' and the 'Dark Side of Globalization': are Sociological Concepts up to the Task?
Chris Rumford

Modernization, Rationalization, and Education: Responding to the Other
Marianna Papastephanou

Surveillance After September 11
David Lyon

Time Matters: On Theory and Method
Abbott, Andrew
Reviewed by Edmund Chattoe

World's Apart: Social Inequalities in a New Century
Sernau, Scott
Reviewed by Talmadge Wright

Classical Sociology
Turner, Bryan S
Reviewed by Dave Randall

Life in the Air: Surviving the New Culture of Air Travel
Gottdiener, Mark
Reviewed by Thomas Hylland Eriksen

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Volume 6(2) published on 28 Aug 2001

Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Learning from Women's Groups in Indonesia
Marilyn Porter

Smoke and Mirrors: Modernist Illusions in the Quantitative Versus Qualitative Research Debate.
John Schmuttermaier and David Schmitt

Categorisation, Narrative and Devolution in Wales
William Housley and Richard Fitzgerald

Women's Occupations and the Social Order in Nineteenth Century Britain
Wendy Bottero and Kenneth Prandy

The Timing of Family Formation in Britain and Spain
Clare Holdsworth and B Jane Elliott

The Social Worlds of Caravaning: Objects, Scripts and Practices
Dale Southerton, Elizabeth Shove, Alan Warde and Rosemary Deem

The Internet Matters: Exploring the Use of the Internet as a Research Tool
Nicola Illingworth

Field Research for Boneheads: from Naïveté to Insight on the Green Tortoise
Timothy McGettigan

Contradictions of Consumption: Concepts, Practices and Politics in Consumer Society
Edwards, Tim
Reviewed by Terhi-Anna Wilska

Re-Drawing Boundaries: Work, Household, and Gender in China
Entwisle, Barbara; Gail E. Henderson (Editors)
Reviewed by Jude Howell

Race, Media, and the Crisis of Civil Society: From Watts to Rodney King
Jacobs, Ronald N.
Reviewed by Talmadge Wright

Mothering the Self: Mothers, Daughters, Subjects
Lawler, Steph
Reviewed by Sara Mackian

Internet Communication and Qualitative Research: A Handbook for Researching Online
Mann, Chris and Fiona Stewart
Reviewed by Christine Hine

Structuration
Parker, John
Reviewed by Richard Jenkins

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Volume 6(1) published on 29 May 2001

'Superbrides': Wedding Consumer Culture and the Construction of Bridal Identity
Sharon Boden

The Importance of Convention Status: A Case Study of the UK
Alice Bloch

The Basic Elements of a Systematic Theory of Ethnic Relations
John Rex

'I Saw You': Searching for Lost Love Via Practices of Reading, Writingand Responding
Eric Laurier and Angus Whyte

Physiotherapists and Evidence Based Practice: An Opportunity or Threat to the Profession?
Rose Wiles and Sue Barnard

Asylum, Refuge and Public Policy: Current Trends and Future Dilemmas
Liza Schuster and John Solomos

Homosexuality and Refugee Status in the United Kingdom
Derek McGhee

Taking Account of The Macro in The Micro-Politics of Family Viewing - Generational Strategies
Carol MacKeogh

Divided Time: Gender, Paid Employment and Domestic Labour
Layte, Richard
Reviewed by Rosemary Deem

Developing Focus Group Research: Politics, Theory and Practice
Barbour, Rosaline S; Kitzinger, Jenny (Editors)
Reviewed by Michael Warren

Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader
Back, Les; Solomos, John
Reviewed by Ben Carrington

Understanding Sport: an Introduction to the Sociological and Cultural Analysis of Sport
Horne, John; Tomlinson, Alan
Reviewed by Tony King

Identity Without Selfhood: Simone de Beauvoir and Bisexuality
Fraser, Mariam
Reviewed by Momin Rahman

Social Theory in a Changing World
Delanty, Gerard
Reviewed by Austin Harrington

Greenspeak: A Study of Environmental Discourse
Harre, Rom; Brockheimer, Jens; Muhlhauser, Peter
Reviewed by Kate Burningham

Understanding Contemporary Society: Understanding the Present
Browning, Gary K;Halcli, Abigail; Webster, Frank (editors)
Reviewed by Phil Mole

Even in Sweden: Racisms, Racialized Spaces, and the Popular Geographical Imagination
Pred, Allan Richard
Reviewed by Panu Lehtovuori

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Volume 5(4) published on 28 Feb 2001

Snakes & Ladders: in Defence of Studies of Youth Transition
Robert MacDonald, Paul Mason, Tracy Shildrick, Colin Webster and Les Johnston

Making a Difference?: Institutional Habituses and Higher Education Choice
Diane Reay, Miriam David and Stephen John Ball

Border Crossings: Narratives of Movement, 'Home' and Risk
Deborah Lupton and John Tulloch

Dialogue, Positionality and the Legal Framing of Ethnographic Research
John C Roberts

The Plausibility of Class Cultural Explanations: An Analysis of Social Homogeneity using Swedish Data from the Late 1990s
Erik Bihagen

Responding to the Racialisation of Irishness: Disavowed Multiculturalism and its Discontents
Ronit Lentin

Youth Citizenship and Unemployment: The Case of Passive and Active Labour Market Policies towards the Young Unemployed in Greece
Gabriella Lazaridis and Maria Koumandraki

Cyber-Mothers: Online Synchronous Interviewing using Conferencing Software
Henrietta O'Connor and Clare Madge

Hair Matters: Beauty, Power, and Black Women's Consciouness
Banks, Ingrid
Reviewed by Rosemary DuPlessis

The Turbulence of Migration
Papastergoadis, Nikos
Reviewed by David Timothy Duval

Questioning identity: Gender, Class, Nation
Woodward, Kath
Reviewed by Catherine Walker

Nowhere to Grow
Whitbeck, Les and Hoyt, Dan
Reviewed by Sue Grundy

Social Darwinism: Linking Evolutionary Thought to Social Theory
Dickens, Peter
Reviewed by Edmund Chattoe

Researching the Visual: Images, Objects, Contexts and Interactions in Social and Cultural Inquiry
Emmison, Michael and Philip Smith
Reviewed by Sarah Pink

Selected Works of Herbert Blumer: A Public Philosophy for Mass Society
Blumer, Herbert and Stanford M Lyman & Arthur J Vidich (Editors)
Reviewed by Martin Innes

Doing Qualitative Research: A Practical Handbook
Silverman, David
Reviewed by Elery Hamilton-Smith

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Volume 5(3) published on 1 Dec 2000

Shifting Classes: Interactions with Industry and Gender Shifts in the 1980s
Jon Gubbay

Proactive and Defensive Engagement: Social Citizenship in a Changing Public Sphere
Nick Ellison

Land Reform: a Foundation for Industrial Growth in Developing Countries?
Anne Margrethe Brigham

Changing Places: Privilege and Resistance in Contemporary Ireland
Pat O'Connor

Making Connections: Children, Technology, and the National Grid for Learning
Jo Moran-Ellis and Geoff Cooper

Queer Frameworks and Queer Tendencies: Towards an Understanding of Postmodern Transformations of Sexuality
Sasha Roseneil

The Class Situation of Information Specialists: a Case Analysis
Clare Lewin and Myron Orleans

Incestuous Fields: Management Research, Emotion and Data Analysis
Linda Perriton

Cash for Answers: the Association Between School Performance and Local Government Finance
Jon Mulberg

Crossing the Border
Rowe, Michael
Reviewed by Breda Gray

Sociology and the Future of Work: Contemporary Discourses and Debates
Ransome, Paul
Reviewed by Gary Pollock

A Phenomenology of Working-Class Experience
Charlesworth, Simon J.
Reviewed by Mike Savage

Race and Politics: Asian Americans, Latinos, and Whites in a Los Angeles Suburb
Saito, Leland T.
Reviewed by Breda Gray

The Lived Body: Sociological Themes, Embodied Issues
Williams, Simon J.; Bendelow, Gillian A.
Reviewed by Mark Sherry

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Volume 5(2) published on 6 Sep 2000

Conducting Qualitative Research on Wife Abuse: Dealing with the Issue of Anxiety.
Sevaste Chatzifotiou

Writing about Health and Sickness: An Analysis of Contemporary Autobiographical Writing from the British Mass-Observation Archive
Helen Busby

Zimbabwe: Why Land Reform is a Gender Issue
Susie Jacobs

On-Line with the Friends of Bill W: Social Support and the Net.
Nicholas Pleace, Roger Burrows, Brian Loader, Steven Muncer and Sarah Nettleton

Drug-Taking, 'Risk Boundaries' and Social Identity: Bodybuilders' Talk about Ephedrine and Nubain
Lee Monaghan, Michael Bloor, Russell P Dobash and Rebecca Emerson Dobash

Financing the Market-Based Redistribution of Land to Disadvantaged Farmers and Farm Workers in South Africa: Recent Performance of the Land Reform Credit Facility
Michael Lyne, Paul Zille and Douglas Graham

Debatable Land: National and Local Identity in a Border Town
Richard Kiely, David McCrone, Frank Bechhofer and Robert Paul Stewart

Rethinking Land Reform in South Africa: An Alternative Approach to Environmental Justice
Charles Geisler and Essy Letsoalo

The Effect of Community Context in The South African Land Reform Programme
Charles Crothers

Informal Settlement Characteristics in a Rural Land Restitution Case: Elandskloof, South Africa
Michael Barry and David Mayson

Can't Talk, Won't Talk?: Methodological Issues in Researching Children
Jeni Harden, Sue Scott, Kathryn Backett-Milburn and Stevi Jackson

Ethnicity and Academia: Closure Models, Racism Models and Market Models
Steve Fenton, John Carter and Tariq Modood

Modernity and Postmodern Culture
McGuigan, Jim
Reviewed by Justin O'Connor

'Love as Passion: the Codification of Intimacy' and 'Observations on Modernity'
Luhmann, Niklas
Reviewed by Alexander Boskovik

The Myth of Social Action
Campbell, Colin
Reviewed by Alan Warde

'Childhood' in 'Crisis'
Scraton, Phil (editor)
Reviewed by Allison James

Observations on Modernity
Luhmann, Niklas
Reviewed by Alexander Boskovik

Contemporary Racisms and Ethnicities
Mac an Ghaill, Mairtin
Reviewed by Martina Boese

Reconstructing Old Age: New Agendas in Social Theory and Practice
Phillipson, Chris
Reviewed by Kate Davidson

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Volume 5(1) published on 31 May 2000

Reflexivity or Sociological Practice: A Reply to May
Roger Slack

Social Work Research as Knowledge/Power in Practice
Heather D'Cruz

Sacking the New Jerusalem? - The New Right, Social Democracy and Professional Identities
Gerard W Hanlon

Reflexivity in Social Life and Sociological Practice: a Rejoinder to Roger Slack
Tim May

The Visual Availability and Local Organisation of Public Surveillance Systems: The Promotion of Social Order in Public Spaces
Mike Ball

Feminist Analysis of Science and the Implications for Higher Education
Kate Bloor

Neue Rechte: Ethnocentrism, Culture and Cultural Identity
Reinhold Gaertner

Researching a Hard-To- Access and Vulnerable Population: Some Considerations on Researching Drug and Alcohol-Using Mothers
Sarah Goode

Who Wants to be a Social Engineer? A commentary on David Blunkett's Speech to the ESRC
Peter J Hodgkinson

Reproductive Regimes: Changing Relations of Inter-dependence and Fertility Change
Sarah Irwin

British 'Moral Right' Women and Feminism
Donna Luff

'Money for nothing'?: Understanding Giving to Beggars
Ian McIntosh and Angus Erskine

What Difference does it Make? Women's Pop Cultural Production and Consumption in Manchester
Nicola Richards and Katie Milestone

'Homosexuality and the New Right: The Legacy of the 1980s for New Delineations of Homophobia'
Matthew Waites

Germanness in One Country: Austria, Joerg Haider and Nationalist Legacy
Wolfgang Weber

'New Right' or 'Backlash'? Section 28, Moral Panic and 'Promoting Homosexuality'
Sue Wise

The 'New' Right: Definition, Identification, Differentiation
Aaron Winter

Challenges for Work and Family in the Twenty-First Century
Vannoy, Dana; Dubeck, Paula J.
Reviewed by Ian Procter

Television and its Viewers, Cultivation Theory and Research
Shanahan, James; Morgan, Michael
Reviewed by Dave Haans

Material Culture in the Social World
Dant, Tim
Reviewed by Kevin Hetherington

Evaluation and Social Work Practice
Shaw, Ian; Lishman, Joyce
Reviewed by Dianne Phillips

Science and Social Science
Williams, Malcolm
Reviewed by Dave Randall

Cleavage: Technology, Controversy and the Ironies of the Man-made Breast
Jacobson, Nora
Reviewed by Kathy Davis

Evaluation Research: An Introduction to Principles, Methods and Practice
Clarke, Alan
Reviewed by Dianne Phillips

Questions of Competence: Culture, Classification and Intellectual Disability
Jenkins, Richard (editor)
Reviewed by Mark Sherry

Sociological Practice: Linking Theory and Social Research
Layder, D
Reviewed by Esther Dermott

Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology
RussellBernard, H.
Reviewed by Gaby Atfield

Soundbite Culture: The Death of Discourse in a Wired World
Slayden, David; KirkWhillock, Rita
Reviewed by Tim Dant

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Volume 4(4) published on 29 Feb 2000

Understanding the Police Investigation of the Murder of Stephen Lawrence: A 'Mundane Sociological Analysis'
Simon Douglas Holdaway

'Over Policed and Under Protected': Stephen Lawrence, Institutional and Police Practices
Louis Kushnik

Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear - or the More Things Change the More They Stay the Same- or Ruminations on Space and Time in the Next Millennium
Marilyn Porter

'Looking Backward' and Not Looking Forward
Martha Gimenez

Predictions
Howard Becker

Plans, Evaluation, and Accountability at the Workplace
Ilpo Koskinen

Strategic Minorities and the Global Network of Power: Western Thrace and Northern Ireland in Comparative Perspective
Manussos Marangudakis and William Kelly

Theorising Empowerment Thought: Illuminating the Relationship between Ideology and Politics in the Contemporary Era
Dod Forrest

Beyond the Macpherson Report: Managing Murder Inquiries in Context
Martin Innes

Social Research and the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry
John Solomos

Discretion, 'Respectability' and Institutional Police Racism
P.A.J. Waddington

Institutional Racism, Cultural Diversity and Citizenship: Some Reflections on Reading the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Report
Nira Yuval-Davis

The Scrying Game: The Future of Humanity and the Humanity of the Future
Alan Edward Aldridge

Predictions for Social Research On Line: Educational Reform
Kenji Kosaka

Electronic Commerce and the Sociology of Money
Supriya Singh

The Macpherson Report: A View from Greater Manchester
Larry Ray, David Michael Smith and Liz Wastell

A Bit of Sorcery: Peering into the Next Century
Irwin Deutscher

The Health Analysis and Action Cycle an Empowering Approach to Women's Health
Marion Gibbon

The Future Of Sociology: An African View
Fred Hendricks

The Usefulness of Indepth Life History Interviews for Exploring the Role of Social Structure and Human Agency in Youth Transitions
Gill Hubbard

Futures?
John Jackson

Consciousness in Transition: A Case Study of Social Identity Formation in KwaZulu-Natal Study Description and Methodology
T Marcus and Desireé Manicom

Women in the British Sociological Labour Market, 1960-1995
Jennifer Platt

Dealing with difference: Researching health beliefs and behaviours of British Asian mothers
Catherine Reed

Introduction to Predictions
Liz Stanley

Women in Low Status Part-time Jobs: A Class and Gender Analysis
Tracey Warren

Changing Connectivity: A Future History of Y2.03K
Barry Wellman

Surviving through Substance Use: The Role of Substances in the Lives of Women who Appear before the Courts
Emma Wincup

Institutional Racism, Power and Accountability
Floya Anthias

The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Report, Racist Harassment and Racist Incidents: Changing Definitions, Clarifying Meaning?
Kusminder Chahal

Policing's Dark Secret: The Career Paths of Ethnic Minority Officers
Nigel Fielding

The British Immigration Courts
Travers, Max
Reviewed by Ian Geoffrey Law

Weighty Issues: Fatness and Thinness as Social Problems and Interpreting Weight: the Social Management of Fatness and Thinness
Sobal, Jeffrey
Reviewed by Catherine Walker

Scattered Belongings: Cultural Paradoxes of ‘Race’, Nation and Gender
Ifekwunigwe, Jayne O.
Reviewed by Maria Summerson

Taking Care of Men; Sexual Politics in the Public Mind
McMahon, Anthony
Reviewed by Jenny Ryan

Studying the Media (2nd edition)
O'Sullivan, Tim, Brian Dutton and Philip Rayner
Reviewed by Allison Cavanagh

Interpreting Weight: The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness
Sobal, Jeffery; Maurer, Donna
Reviewed by Catherine Walker

Nike Culture: the Sign of the Swoosh
Goldman, Robert and Papson, Stephen
Reviewed by Tom Fleming

Making Meaning of Narratives
Josselson, Ruthellen: Amia Lieblich
Reviewed by Amanda Coffey

Valuing Technology: Organisations, Culture and Change
McLaughlin, Janice; Rosen, Paul; Skinner, David; Webster, Andrew
Reviewed by Mike Geppert

Women in Contemporary Britian
Pilcher, Jane
Reviewed by Jenny Ryan

Working Hard and Making Do
Nelson, Margaret K; Smith, Joan
Reviewed by Jan Pahl

Taking Care of Men: Sexual Politics in the Public Mind
McMahon, Anthony
Reviewed by Jenny Ryan

Introducing Social Networks
Degenne, A.; Forse, M.
Reviewed by Bonnie H. Erickson

Challenging Women: Gender, Culture and Organisation
Maddock, Su
Reviewed by Rachel Lewis

Doing Conversational Analysis
Have, Paul ten
Reviewed by Dave Randall

Sociological Snapshots: Seeing Social Structure and Change in Everday Life
Levin, Jack
Reviewed by William Housley

Sport, Culture and the Media
Rowe, David
Reviewed by Alan Tomlinson

Theorizing Classical Sociology
Ray, Larry J
Reviewed by Martin O'Brien

Family Fragments
Smart, Carol; Neale, Bren
Reviewed by Judith Stacey

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Volume 4(3) published on 30 Sep 1999

Agricultural Biotechnology: Its Recent Evolution and Implications for Agrofood Political Economy
Fred Buttel

Necessary Evils? Opening up Closings in Sociology and Biotechnology
Les Gofton and Erica Haimes

Cultivation and Comprehension: How Genetic Modification Irreversibly Alters the Human Engagement with Nature
Mark Harvey

'What Are 'They' Doing to Our Food?': Public Concerns About Food in the UK
Alison Shaw

Feminist Sociology and Sociological Feminism: Recovering the Social in Feminist Thought
Stevi Jackson

Prediction in Sociology: Prospects for a Devalued Activity
Alan Edward Aldridge

Realtime Interviewing Using the World Wide Web
Peter Chen and S.M. Hinton

Role as an Interactional Device and Resource in Multidisciplinary Team Meetings
William Housley

Fitness Gyms and the Local Organization of Experience
Roberta Sassatelli

Sociology, What's It For? A Critique of Gouldner
Martyn Hammersley

(Posts-) Modernism and Structuralism: Affinities and Theoretical Innovations
Michael J Peters

'Whatever You Say Say Nothing': an Ethnographic Encounter in Northern Ireland and its Sequel
Andrew Robert Finlay

Genetics and the Future of Nature Politics
Phil Sutton

The Fear of Unreason: Science Wars and Sociology
Geoff Cooper

Heritage Work: Re-Representing the Work Ethic in the Coalfields
Tim Strangleman, Emma Hollywood, Huw Beynon, Katy Bennett and Ray Hudson

Reflexivity and Sociological Practice
Tim May

Structure, Strategy, Sustainability: What Future for New Social Movement Theory?
Alana Lentin

'Gypsies to the Camps!': Exclusion and Marginalisation of Roma in the Czech Republic
Angus Bancroft

Is Class Changing? a Work-Life History Perspective on the Salariat
Brendan Halpin

The Influence of Popular Cultural Imagery on Public Attitudes Towards Cloning
Brigitte Nerlich, David D. Clarke and Robert W.J. Dingwall

'Not Science but PR': GM Food and the Makings of a Considered Sociology
Anne Murcott

Food Trust, Ethics and Safety in Risk Society.
Reidar Almas

News Culture
Allan, S.
Reviewed by Tim Dant

The Social Edges of Psychoanalysis
Smelser, Neil J.
Reviewed by Pat Lowe

The Ethnographic Self, Fieldwork and the Representation of Identity
Coffey, Amanda
Reviewed by Dave Francis

Postemotional Society
Mestrovic, Stjepan G.
Reviewed by Nick Stevenson

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Volume 4(2) published on 29 Jul 1999

Theory-Building with Nud.Ist: Using Computer Assisted Qualitative Analysis in a Media Case Study
Katie MacMillan and Shelley McLachlan

Token Salaries and Social Answers in Work Relations in Africa
Massimo Repetti

War and the Public Intellectual: Cosmopolitanism and Anti-Cosmopolitanism in the Kosovo Debate in Germany
Alan Scott

The Kosovan War, 1998-99: Transformations of State, War and Genocide in the Global Revolution
Martin Shaw

'War, Violence, Terror, Genocide' - The Pacific Experience
Zohl de Ishtar

Dancing to Different Tunes: A Reply to Responses to Here Be Dragons
Sara Elizabeth Scott

A View From Hong Kong: Chinese Representations of War, Violence and American Imperialism
John David Goodwin and Katherine Hills

Virtual Diaspora?: Imagining Croatia On-line
Paul Stubbs

The Rape of the Nation: Women Narrativising Genocide
Ronit Lentin

Deportations and Discursive Displacements
R. Ruth Linden

They Made a Desert and Called it Peace
Mike Drake

Life Course Data Collection: Qualitative Interviewing using the Life Grid
Odette Parry

Revisiting Role Theory: Roles and the Problem of the Self
Stanley Raffel

Memory, Trauma and Genocidal Nationalism
Larry Ray

Ecologism: Toward Ecological Citizenship
Smith, Mark J.
Reviewed by Harris Ali

Random Violence: How we Talk about New Crimes and New Victims
Best, Joel
Reviewed by Hazel May

Social Experiments Evaluating Public Programs with Experimental Methods
Orr, Larry L.
Reviewed by Rhonda Cockerill

Basics of Qualitative Research Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory (2nd edition)
Strauss, Anselm; Corbin, Juliet
Reviewed by Dave Francis

Computer Modeling of Social Processes
Liebrand, Wim; Nowak, Andrzej; Hegelsmann, Rainer (Editors)
Reviewed by Edmund Chattoe

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Volume 4(1) published on 31 Mar 1999

Qualitative Sociology and Social Class
Max Travers

Reading Sara Scott's 'Here Be Dragons'
Sue Wise

Sociology of Education and Marxism in Brazil
Oswalo J. Yamamoto and Antonio Cabral Neto

Gender Differences at Work: International Variations in Occupational Segregation
Jennifer Jarman, Robert M Blackburn, Bradley Brooks and Esther Dermott

The Cyber-Ethnographic (Re)Construction of Two Feminist Online Communities
Katie J. Ward

A Critical Response to Sara Scott's 'Here Be Dragons: Researching the Unbelievable, Hearing the Unthinkable. a Feminist Sociologist in Uncharted Territory'
Annie Huntington

'Winners' and 'Losers' in Social Transformations
Graham Crow and Tony Rees

Ruling Passions: Sexual Violence, Reputation and the Law
Lees, Sue
Reviewed by Betsy Stanko

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Volume 3(4) published on 31 Dec 1998

Understanding the Patterns and Processes of Primary Care Use: A Combined Quantitative and Qualitative Approach
Nicolaas and Anne Rogers

But Women Can't Have 'Hemophilia'!: a Look at the Lives of Women with Bleeding Disorder
Diane Kholos Wysocki

The Selectionist Paradigm: More Implications for Sociology
Paul Marsden

Naming the Other: Power, Politeness and the Inflation of Euphemisms
James Valentine

Sarah Neal

The Sociology of Health and Illness at the Turn of the Century: Back to the Future?
Simon Williams, Ellen Carol Annandale and Jonathan Tritter

Ageing and the Limiting Conditions of the Body
Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs

Sociology (3rd edition)
Giddens, Anthony
Reviewed by Jon Gubbay

Theory and Progress in Social Science
Rule, James B.
Reviewed by Rob Stones

Sex and Medicine: Gender, Power and Authority in the Medical Profession
Pringle, Rosemary
Reviewed by Susan Halford

Feminism and Politics
Phillips, Anne (editor)
Reviewed by Vanessa Hogbin

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Volume 3(3) published on 30 Sep 1998

Hypermedia and Ethnography: Reflections on the Construction of a Research Approach
Bella Dicks and Bruce Mason

Choosing Qualitative Data Analysis Software: Atlas/ti and Nudist Compared
Christine Barry

How Gender and Ethnicity Intersect: the Significance of Education, Employment and Marital Status
Kalwant Bhopal

The Interaction of Gender, Class and Place in Women's Experience: a Discussion Based in Focus Group Research
Gill Callaghan

Negotiating Breast-Feeding: Pakistani Women, White Women and Their Experiences in Hospital and at Home
Alison Bowes and Teresa Meehan Domokos

Negotiating Selves: Reflections on 'Unstructured' Interviewing
Peter Collins

Conflict and Co-Operation in the Virtual Community: EMail and the Wars of the Yugoslav Succession
C Stubbs

Here be Dragons: Researching the Unbelievable, Hearing the Unthinkable. A Feminist Sociologist in Uncharted Territory
Sara Elizabeth Scott

Violent Criminal Acts and Actors Revisited
Athens, Lonnie
Reviewed by Dick Hobbs

The Male in the Head: Young People, Heterosexuality and Power
Holland, Janet, Ramazanoglu, Caroline, Sharpe, Sue and Thomson, Rachel
Reviewed by Angela Meah

Parts of an Andrology: on Representations of Men's Bodies
Schehr, Lawrence, R.
Reviewed by Momin Rahman

Science
Fuller, Steve
Reviewed by Steve New

Britain in Europe: An Introduction to Sociology
Spybey, Tony
Reviewed by Gary Pollock

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Volume 3(2) published on 30 Jun 1998

The Revolution and the Virgin Mary: Popular Religion and Social Change in Nicaragua
Stephanie Judith Linkogle

On the Potentialities and Problems of a WWW Based Naturalistic Sociology
Roger Slack

Reconstructing 'Positive' Nationalism: Evidence from Norway and Sweden
Hjerm

Class in International Perspective: a Call for Papers
Liz Stanley

Method in a Photographic Enquiry of Being Deaf
Thoutenhoofd

Coming to terms with Contemporary Capitalism: Beyond the Idealism of Globalisation and Capitalist Ascendancy Arguments
Eileen Teresa Kennedy

Recording Social Life: Reflexivity and Video Methodology
Helen Lomax

Planning in Organisations: Rational Control or Contingent Activity
Tim Dant and Francis

Gender Inn
Susanne Webel

Caricaturing and Categorising in Processes of Argument
Romm

Useful Resources on the World Wide Web for Social Scientists
Beverley Lucy Holbrook

The Practical Limitations of Survey Analysis: A brief response to Lynn
M Heather Elliott and Ellingworth

Power, Professionalism and Organisational Transformation
Christopher May and Mary Eleanor Buck

Social Motivation: Understanding Childrens School Adjustment
Juvonen, Jaana and Wentzel, Kathryn (editors)
Reviewed by Andrew Pollard

Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice
Reinarman, Craig and Harry G. Levine (editors)
Reviewed by Rhidian Hughes

Football, Nationality and the State
Duke, Vic & Crolley, Liz
Reviewed by Sam Pryke

Norbert Elias
van Krieken, Robert
Reviewed by Pablo Jauregui

Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace
Blau, Francine D. and Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Reviewed by Colette Fagan

Rethinking Language and Gender Research: Theory and Practice
Bergvall, Victoria L., Bing, Janet M. & Freed, Alice, F.
Reviewed by Jane Sunderland

On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences
Doyle, Richard
Reviewed by Marc Berg

Equal Opportunities and Social Policy: Issues of Race, Gender and Disability
Bagilhole, Barbara
Reviewed by Clare Ungerson

Problematics of Sociology: The Georg Simmel Lectures, 1995
Smelser, Neil J.
Reviewed by Prof. Leonard Beeghley

'Understanding Social Theory'
Layder, Derek
Reviewed by Graham Crow

Researching Society and Culture
Seale, Clive (editor)
Reviewed by Andrew Hill

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Volume 3(1) published on 31 Mar 1998

The Industrial Organization of Sociology
Tony Tam

Gender Matters? Three Cohorts of Women Talking About Role Reversal
Jane Pilcher

Reflections in an Unblinking Eye: Negotiating Identity in the Production of a Documentary
McGettigan

The Baby and the Bath Water: Hammersley, Cealey Harrison and Hood-Williams and the Emancipatory Research Debate
Cealey Harrison and Hood-Williams

More Varieties Than Heinz
W Cealey Harrison

The Use of Marriage Data to Measure the Social Order in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Bottero and Kien Prandy

Sociological Practice: The Politics of Identities and Futures
Irwin Deutscher

Sustainability and Modernity in the European Union: A Frame Theory Approach to Policy-Making
Calloni and Mikrakis Triandafyllidou and Fotiou

The British Crime Survey Sample: A response to Elliott and Ellingworth
Peter Lynn

Social Structures and Chaos Theory
Greg Smith

Social Theory and European Transformation: Is there a European Society?
Gerard Delanty

'Towards a New Social Order in Russia' and 'from Submission to Rebellion'
Piirainen, Timo
Reviewed by Nick Manning

How We Feel: An Insight into the Emotional World of Teenagers
Gordon, Jacki & Grant, Gillian (editors)
Reviewed by Johanna Wyn

Media and Mental Distress
Philo, Greg (editor)
Reviewed by Meryl Aldridge

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Volume 2(4) published on 22 Dec 1997

Social Transformation? Exploring Issues in Comparison, Development and Change
Liz Stanley

Youth Research in the 1990s: Time for (Another) Rethink
Christine Griffin

'Collegial Accountability' and Bias: the Solution or the Problem?
Bogusia Temple

The Ambiguities of Football, Politics, Culture, and Social Transformation in Latin America
Bar-on

The Decomposition of Sociology
Max Travers

The Reproduction of Exclusion and Disadvantage: Symbolic Violence and Social Class Inequalities in 'Parental Choice' of Secondary Education
Stephen Conway

A Reply to Humphries
Martyn Hammersley

Assessing the Representativeness of the 1992 British Crime Survey: The Impact of Sampling Error and Response Biases
M Heather Elliott and Ellingworth

Dialectics and Modernity, Autonomy and Solidarity
JosÈ Mauricio Domingues

A Response to Romm
Martyn Hammersley and Roger Gomm

Networked Worlds: Social Aspects of Multi-User Virtual Reality Technology
Ralph Schroeder

Accessing Large Corporations: Research Ethics and Gatekeeper-Relations in the Case of Researching a Japanese-Invested Factory
Gronning

Thought Styles: Critical Essays on Good Taste
Douglas, Mary
Reviewed by Geoff Cooper

Nature, State and Economy: a Political Economy of the Environment (2nd Edition)
Johnston, Ron J.
Reviewed by John Walls

The Way the Modern World Works: World Hegemony to World Impasse
Taylor, Peter J.
Reviewed by David Stuart Lane

Saving Our Children from Poverty: What the United States can Learn from France
Bergman, Barbara R.
Reviewed by Paul Jargowsky

The Other City: People and Politics in New York and London
MacGregor, S. & Lipow, A. (editors)
Reviewed by Nick Buck

Men as Managers, Managers as Men: Critical Perspectives on Men, Maculinities and Managements
Collinson, David L. & Hearn, Jeff
Reviewed by Harriet Bradley

Ethnic Los Angeles
Waldinger, Roger & Bozrgmehr, Mehdi (editors)
Reviewed by Faye Arnold

Risk, Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology
Lash, S., Szerszynski, B. & Wynne, B. (editors)
Reviewed by Anna Triandafyllidou

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Volume 2(3) published on 30 Sep 1997

Teams as Author: Narrative and Knowledge Creation in Case Discussions in Multi-Disciplinary Health Teams
Opie

Organisation Man - Women and Organisational Culture
Grant Coates

NUD*IST in Action: Its Use and Its Usefulness in a Study of Chronic Illness in Young People
Buston

Part/Whole Morphology: Unifying Single Case and Comparative Methods
Thomas J. Scheff

Getting Published: a Study of Writing, Refereeing and Editing Practices
Angela Packwood

Users and Social Science Research: Policy, Problems and Possibilities
Rappert

CoMentor
Catherine Skinner

Situating Simulation in Sociology
Peter Halfpenny

Locating Frames in the Discursive Universe
Fisher

Unite De Liaison Internationale En Sciences Sociales (ULISS)
Jean Charles Lagrée

Some Methodological and Epistemological Issues Raised by Doing Feminist Research on Non-Feminist Women
Dianne Millen

Becoming More Accountable: A Comment on Hammersley and Gomm
Romm

Market Forces, Choice and Diversity in Education: the Early Impact
Stephen Gorard

Data Collection and Analysis
Sapsford, Roger & Jupp, Victor (editors)
Reviewed by Ray Lee

Insider/Outsider Team Research
Bartunek, Jean M. & Loius, Meryl Reis
Reviewed by Ray Lee

Founding Sociology? Talcott Parsons and the Idea of General Theory
Holmwood, John
Reviewed by Professor Frank Lechner

Gender and Nation
Yuval-Davis, Nira
Reviewed by Paula Frederick

Stopping AIDS: AIDS/HIV Public Education and the Mass Media in Europe
Wellings, Kaye and Field, Becky
Reviewed by Edwin van Teijlingen

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Volume 2(2) published on 30 Jun 1997

Critical Education for Participatory Research
Susan Martin

Theory Building in Qualitative Research and Computer Programs for the Management of Textual Data
Kelle

Images of Men: Male Sexuality in Sexual Health Leaflets and Posters for Young People
Jewitt

Centre for Applied Social Surveys (CASS)
Teresa McGarry

The Use of Diaries in Sociological Research on Health Experience
M Heather Elliott

Using the Internet for Survey Research
Ross Coomber

Simulation - a Way Forward?
David Byrne

On the Uses of Computer-Assisted Simulation Modeling in the Social Sciences
Hanneman and Anthony Patrick

Informal Exchange Relations in Post-Soviet Russia: A Comparative Perspective
Lonkila

A Simulation of the Structure of Academic Science
Nigel Gilbert

Changing Police Culture: Policing in a Multicultural Society
Chan, Janet B. L.
Reviewed by Nigel Fielding

Introduction to Social Research: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
Punch, Keith F.
Reviewed by Tracey Warren

Ethnic and Racial Consciousness (2nd Edition)
Banton, Michael
Reviewed by Robert Carter

Shaping Women's Work: Gender Employment and Information Technology
Webster, Juliet
Reviewed by Dr Fiona Devine

The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings
Lynch, Michael & Bogen, David
Reviewed by Barry Brown

The Embryo Research Debate: Science and Politics of Reproduction
Mulkay, Michael
Reviewed by Christine Hine

Bearing Meaning: The Language of Birth
Kahn, Robbie Pfeufer
Reviewed by Fiona Hart

The Troubles with Postmodernism
Morawski, Stefan
Reviewed by Caroline Ramazanoglu

Ethnic and Racial Consciousness
Banton, Michael
Reviewed by Bob Carter

Reconstructing the Balkans: A Geography of the New Southeast Europe
Hall, Derek & Danta, Darrick
Reviewed by Tamas Kozma

The Economics of Organized Crime
Fiorentini, G. & Peltzman, S. (editors)
Reviewed by Federico Varese

Conducting Socially Responsible Research: Critical Theory, Neo-Pragmatism and Rhetorical Inquiry
Swartz, Omar
Reviewed by Roger John Sapsford

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Volume 2(1) published on 31 Mar 1997

Nationalism Links
Paul Treanor

Bias in Social Research
Martyn Hammersley and Roger Gomm

From Critical Thought to Emancipatory Action: Contradictory Research Goals?
Beth Humphries

Health Experiences of Elderly People in an Outer London Area
Bie Nie Ong and Jordan

Focus Group Data and Qualitative Analysis Programs: Coding the Moving Picture as Well as the Snapshots
Catterall and Maclaren

New Greek Nationalism
Calloni and Mikrakis Triandafyllidou

Structures of Nationalism
Treanor

Using Metadata for Cross-National Comparisons
Peter Brannen and Lamb

Centre for the Study of Public Policy
Neil Munro

SAMP for Windows (Samp 1.2)
James A. Davis

Reflections on Interviewing Women MPs
Nirmal Puwar

Anselm Strauss: an Appreciation
Star

Balancing Act and the Work- Family Challenge
Spain, Daphne & Bianchi, Suzanne
Reviewed by Colette Fagan

Gender, Generation and Identity in Contemporary Russia
Pilkington, Hilary (editor)
Reviewed by Claire Wallace

Walter Benjamin
Bolz, N. & van Reijen, W.
Reviewed by Michael Erben

Disarming Patriarchy: Feminism and Political Action at Greenham
Roseneil, Sasha
Reviewed by Dr Stephanie Linkogle

The Agony of the Russian Idea
McDaniel, Tim
Reviewed by Hilary Pilkington

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Volume 1(4) published on 23 Dec 1996

Violating an Occupational Sex-Stereotype: Israeli Women Earning Engineering Degrees
Jacobsen and Vanki

Anselm L. Strauss: Obituary
Adele Clark

SocInfo - CTI Centre for Sociology, Politics and Social Policy
CTI Centre for Sociology, Politics and Social Policy

CAQDAS -Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software
Ann Lewins

Qualitative Data Analysis: Representations of a Technology: a Comment on Coffey, Holbrook and Atkinson
Nigel Fielding and Ray Lee

Contemporary Nationalism, Its Causes and Consequences for Europe - a Reply to Delanty
John Rex

Technological Innovations in Data Collection: Acceptance, Data Quality and Costs
de Leeuw and Nicholls

'What Are They Doing? Dilemmas in Analyzing Bibliographic Searching: Cultural and Technical Networks in Academic Life'
Matthew David and David Zeitlyn

Is Democracy at the Heart of IT? Commercial Perceptions of Technology
Linda McKie

Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach
Maxwell, Joseph
Reviewed by Martyn Hammersley

Engendering Motherhood: Identity and Self-Transformation in Women's Lives
McMahon, Martha
Reviewed by Alexandra Howson

Appalachia in the Making and the First American Frontier
Pudup, B., Billings, D. & Waller, A (editors)
Reviewed by Jerry Williamson

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Volume 1(3) published on 2 Oct 1996

Modelling Tabular Data with an Ordered Outcome
Vernon Gayle

Crown Street Revisited
Karen Mary Moore

Using SOSIG to support Social Science Teaching and Research
Hiom and Huxley

The Career of Status Crystallization: a Sociological Odyssey
R. David Smith

Beyond the Nation-State: National Identity and Citizenship in a Multicultural Society - a Response to Rex
Gerard Delanty

The General Social Survey Data and Information Retrieval System (GSSDIRS)
Tom W. Smith

Statistics as Organizational Products
Carol Jane Thomas

Sociology, Environmentalism, Globalization: Reinventing the Globe
Yearley, Steven
Reviewed by David Frank

To Rule Jerusalem
Friedland, Roger & Hecht, Richard
Reviewed by Dr. Menachem Klein

Trauma and Self
Strozier, Charles B. & Flynn, M. (editors)
Reviewed by Dr Guy Undrill

The Polish Peasant in Europe and America: a Classic Work in Immigration History
Thomas, William and Znaniecki, Florian (edited by Eli Zaretsky)
Reviewed by Anna Triandafyllidou

Studies in Qualitative Methodology: Computing and Qualitative Research: Volume 5
Burgess, Robert G. (ed.)
Reviewed by Ann Lewins

Sociology of Work: Concepts and Cases
Auster, Carol J
Reviewed by Susanne C. Monahan

Cultures of the Internet and Cyberspace Cyberbodies Cyberpunk
Rob Shields (editor)
Reviewed by Joost Van Loon

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Volume 1(2) published on 2 Jul 1996

National Identity in the Democratic Multi- Cultural State
John Rex

In One Ear and Out the Other: Unmasking Masculinities in the Caribbean Classroom
Jose Parry

Divided Spaces - Divided School: an Exploration of the Spatial Relations of Social Division
David Byrne and Tim Rogers

Pedagogy, Symbolic Control and Identity: Theory, research, critique
Bernstein, Basil
Reviewed by Sara Delamont

Conflicts about class: Debating inequality in late industrialism
Lee, D. J. and Turner, B. S. (editors)
Reviewed by Dr Fiona Devine

Male Matters: Masculinity, Anxiety and the Male Body on the Line
Thomas, Calvin
Reviewed by John David Goodwin

Taboo: Sex, Identity and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Fieldwork
Kulick, Don and Willson, Margaret (eds.)
Reviewed by Paul Atkinson

Regaining Marxism
Post, K
Reviewed by G. E. C. Paton

Pedagogy, Symbolic Control and Identity Theory, Research, Critique
Bernstein, Basil
Reviewed by Sara Delamont

Male Matters: Masculinity, Anxiety, and the Male Body on the Line
Thomas, Calvin
Reviewed by John David Goodwin

Beyond the Myths: Mother and Daughter Relationships in Psychology, History, Literature and Everyday Life
Phillips, Shelley
Reviewed by Pamela Cotterill

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Volume 1(1) published on 29 Mar 1996

The Salt of Social Science
Nico Stehr

Theoretical Considerations in Cross-National Employment Research
Jacqueline O'Reilly

Editorial
Martin Bulmer and Liz Stanley

Evaluating an Empowering Research Strategy: Reflections on Action-Research with South Asian Women
Alison Bowes

Editorial
Martin Bulmer and Liz Stanley

'Refuse of All Classes'? Social Indicators and Social Deprivation
Geoff Payne, Judy Payne and Mark Hyde

Has Funding Made a Difference to Research Methods?
Jennifer Platt

Qualitative Data Analysis: Technologies and Representations
Amanda Coffey, Beverley Lucy Holbrook and Paul Atkinson

The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution
Brockman, John
Reviewed by Steve Fuller

Statistics for the Social Sciences
Sirkin, R.Mark
Reviewed by Kate Bloor

An Introduction to Population
Kammeyer, Kenneth J.
Reviewed by Clare Holdsworth

Cars: Analysis, History, Cases
Williams, Karel
Reviewed by Carl Dassbach

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