Contents

Volume 101, No. 5, March 1996

 The Construction of Meaning 

1159  Reputational Entrepreneurs and the Memory of Incompetence: Melting Supporters, Partisan Warriors, and Images of President Harding

GARY ALAN FINE 

1194  Families and Funny Mirrors: A Study of the Social Construction and Personal Embodiment of Humor

JACK KATZ 

1238  Civil Society and Crisis: Culture, Discourse, and the Rodney King Beating

RONALD N. JACOBS

   Also

 1273  So Long as They Both Shall Live: Marital Dissolution and the Decline of Domestic Homicide in France, 1852-1909

A. R. GILLIS 

1306 Making Contact? Black-White Social Interaction in an Urban Setting

LEE SIGELMAN, TIMOTHY BLEDSOE, SUSAN WELCH, AND MICHAEL W. COMBS 

1333  The Structural Basis of Social Inequality

AAGE B. SØRENSEN

1366  Status and Participation in Task Groups: A Dynamic Network Model

JOHN SKVORETZ AND THOMAS J. FARARO 

   Book Reviews

  1415 From Urban Village to East Village: The Battle for New York's Lower East Side, edited by Janet L. Abu-Lughod

PHILIP KASINITZ 

1418 The Union Makes Us Strong: Radical Unionism on the San Francisco Waterfront by David Wellman

HOWARD KIMELDORF 

1420 Working Poor: Farmworkers in the United States by David Griffith, Ed Kissam, et al.

PHILIP MARTIN

1422 In the Name of All That's Holy: A Theory of Clergy Malfeasance by Anson Shupe

ANDREW GREELEY 

1424 Party Conflict and Community Development: Postwar Politics in Ann Arbor by Samuel J. Eldersveld

PAUL JOHNSTON 

1426 City-Building in America by Anthony M. Orum

ROBERT A. BEAUREGARD 

1428 Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman by Carl Smith

ROSS MILLER 

1429 Auto Opium: A Social History of American Automobile Design by David Gartman

MICHAEL A. KARESH 

1431 Labour's Dilemma: The Gender Politics of Auto Workers in Canada, 1937-1979 by Pamela Sugiman

NANCY GABIN 

1434 Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900 by Kathryn Kish Sklar

JANET ZOLLINGER GIELE 

1436 Islamic Society and State Power in Senegal: Disciples and Citizens in Fatick by Leonardo A. Villalón

ROBERT LAUNAY 

1437 Family Structure in the Staffordshire Potteries: 1840-1880 by Marguerite W. Dupree

STEVEN RUGGLES 

1439 Patriarchy, Property, and Death in the Roman Family by Richard P. Saller

CAROLINE BRETTELL 

1441 Marginality and Dissent in Twentieth-Century American Sociology: The Case of Elizabeth Briant Lee and Alfred McClung Lee by John F. Galliher and James M. Galliher

ROBERT W. WALLACE

1443 Social Science in the Crucible: The American Debate over Objectivity and Purpose, 1918-1941 by Mark C. Smith

STEPHEN TURNER 

1444 Trust, Ethnicity, and Identity: Beyond the New Institutional Economics of Ethnic Trading Networks, Contract Law, and Gift-Exchange by Janet Tai Landa

FEDERICO VARESE 

1446 The Rebel's Dilemma by Mark Irving Lichbach

DENNIS CHONG 

1448 One for All: The Logic of Group Conflict by Russell Hardin

CLAUS OFFE 

1450 The Executive Way: Conflict Management in Corporations by Calvin Morrill

JOSEPH A. SCIMECCA 

1451 Partners in Public Service: Government-Nonprofit Relations in the Modern Welfare State by Lester M. Salamon

PETER FRUMKIN

1453 The Problem of Bureaucratic Rationality: Tax Politics in Japan by Junko Kato

WILLIAM W. GRIMES 

1455 Launching Europe: An Ethnography of European Cooperation in Space Science by Stacia E. Zabusky

KLAUS AMANN 

1457 Knowledge Societies by Nico Stehr

JOSEPH A. SOARES

1459 The Construction of Social Reality by John R. Searle

HUBERT KNOBLAUCH 

1461 Rhetoric and Marxism by James Arnt Aune

JOHN ELDRIDGE

1462 German Ideology: From France to Germany and Back by Louis Dumont

HARVEY GOLDMAN

1464 Beyond Left and Right: The Future of Radical Politics by Anthony Giddens

STANLEY ARONOWITZ 

1466 Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED by John Willinsky

JOHN MULLAN 

1468 The Semiotic Self by Norbert Wiley

ANNE WARFIELD RAWLS 

1472 The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times

by Giovanni Arrighi

GEOFFREY INGHAM

1474 Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World by Arturo Escobar

MICHAEL F. JIMÉNEZ

1476 Unsettling Statecraft: Democracy and Neoliberalism in the Central Andes by Catherine M. Conaghan and James M. Malloy

MIGUEL CENTENO

1478 The Reformation of Machismo: Evangelical Conversion and Gender in Colombia by Elizabeth E. Brusco

KEVIN NEUHOUSER 

1480 Cultures in Conflict: Social Movements and the State in Peru by Susan C. Stokes

SUSAN ECKSTEIN

1482 Faded Dreams: The Politics and Economics of Race in America by Martin Carnoy

CHRIS TILLY 

1484 Cream of the Crop: The Impact of Elite Education in the Decade after College by Herant Katchadourian and John Boli

SUNHWA LEE 

1487 Collegial Discourse: Professional Conversation among Peers by Allen D. Grimshaw et al.

What's Going On Here? Complementary Studies of Professional Talk, edited by Allen D. Grimshaw et al.

ALAN FIRTH

  Book Notes