Volume 102, Number 3, November 1996

659 Networks, Knowledge, and Niches: Competition in the Worldwide Semiconductor Industry, 1984–1991

Joel M. Podolny, Toby E. Stuart, and Michael T. Hannan

690 Have Americans' Social Attitudes Become More Polarized?

Paul DiMaggio, John Evans, and Bethany Bryson

756 Are the Rumors of War Exaggerated? Religious Orthodoxy and Moral Progressivism in America

Nancy J. Davis and Robert V. Robinson

788 Vicarious Violence: Spatial Effects on Southern Lynchings, 1890–1919

Stewart E. Tolnay, Glenn Deane, and E. M. Beck

816 Group Threat and Regional Change in Attitudes toward African- Americans

Lincoln Quillian

 Book Reviews

861 Toward a New Common Sense: Law, Science and Politics in the Paradigmatic Transition by Boaventura de Sousa Santos

David Sciulli

864 Practical Sociology: Post-Empiricism and the Reconstruction of Theory and Application by Christopher G. A. Bryant

J. Daniel Schubert

865 Logic on the Track of Social Change by David Braybrooke, Bryson Brown, and Peter K. Schotch with Laura Byrne

Peter Abell 

867 Political Theory, Modernity, and Postmodernity: Beyond Enlightenment and Critique by N. J. Rengger

Lisa J. Disch 

869 Discourses of Power: From Hobbes to Foucault by Barry Hindess

Dennis H. Wrong 

872 American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword by Seymour Martin Lipset

Kenneth Finegold 

874 Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification by Timur Kuran

David G. Wagner 

876 Insurgent Identities: Class, Community, and Protest in Paris from 1848 to the Commune by Roger V. Gould

Michael Hanagan 

878 State and Status: The Rise of the State and Aristocratic Power in Western Europe by Samuel Clark

Bruce G. Carruthers 

880 Genealogies of Conflict: Class, Identity, and State in Palestine/Israel and South Africa by Ran Greenstein

Movindri Reddy

881 Current Widowhood: Myths and Realities by Helena Znaniecka Lopata

Lori Kaplan

883  Between Voice and Silence: Women and Girls, Race and Relationship by Jill McLean Taylor, Carol Gilligan, and Amy M. Sullivan

Donna Eder

885 Successful Adoptive Families: A Longitudinal Study of Special Needs Adoption by Victor Groze

Linda Stephens

886 Gender Trials: Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms by Jennifer L. Pierce

Amy S. Wharton

889 Two Paths to Women's Equality: Temperance, Suffrage, and the Origins of Modern Feminism by Janet Zollinger Giele

Belinda Robnett

891 Closed Doors, Opportunities Lost: The Continuing Costs of Housing Discrimination by John Yinger

John M. Quigley

893 Getting a Job: A Study of Contacts and Careers, 2nd ed., by Mark Granovetter

Peter V. Marsden

895 Half a Job: Bad and Good Part-Time Jobs in a Changing Labor Market by Chris Tilly

David R. Howell and Robert J. Milano

898 Just a Temp by Kevin D. Henson

Rosemary Crompton

899 The Social Democratic State: The Swedish Model and the Bureaucratic Problem of Social Reforms by Bo Rothstein

Madelaine Gerbaulet-Vanasse 

901 Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent: The East German Opposition and Its Legacy by John C. Torpey

Steven Pfaff

903 The Object of Labor: Commodification in Socialist Hungary by Martha Lampland

Carole Nagengast

905 Utopia in Zion: The Israeli Experience with Worker Cooperatives by Raymond Russell

Menachem Rosner

907 Mawdudi and the Making of Islamic Revivalism by Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr

Hamid Dabashi

909 Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries by Vernon J. Williams, Jr.

Lee D. Baker

911 After Tylor: British Social Anthropology 1888-1951 by George W. Stocking, Jr.

Robert Alun Jones

913 The Art of Fieldwork by Harry F. Wolcott

Leslie Salzinger

915 Old Wisdom in the New World: The Americanization in Two Immigrant Theravada Buddhist Temples by Paul David Numrich

Jean Bacon

916 A Gay Synagogue in New York by Moshe Shokeid

Philip M. Kayal

918 Insecure Prosperity: Small-Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890-1940 by Ewa Morawska

Samuel C. Heilman

920 Race, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship in Urban America by Ivan Light and Carolyn Rosenstein

Steven J. Gold

923 Caught in the Net: The Global Tuna Industry, Environmentalism, and the State by Alessandro Bonanno and Douglas Constance

Frederick H. Buttel

925 Creating the Countryside: The Politics of Rural and Environmental Discourse, edited by E. Melanie DuPuis and Peter Vandergeest

Douglas Foley

927 Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital by Sarah Thornton

Matthew B. Smith-Lahrman

929 Imagining Crime: Textual Outlaws and Criminal Conversations by Alison Young

Esther Madriz

930 Law's Community: Legal Theory in Sociological Perspective by Roger Cotterrell

Robin Stryker

932 Masculinity, Law, and the Family by Richard Collier

J. L. Miller

935 Money for Change: Social Movement Philanthropy at Haymarket People's Fund by Susan A. Ostrander

John D. McCarthy