Volume 102, No. 4, January 1997

939  What's Driving Mexico-U.S. Migration? A Theoretical, Empirical, and Policy Analysis

DOUGLAS S. MASSEY and KRISTIN E. ESPINOSA

1000  World-Economic Trends in the Distribution of Income, 1965–1992

ROBERTO PATRICIO KORZENIEWICZ and TIMOTHY PATRICK MORAN

1040  Escaping Distressed Neighborhoods: Individual, Community, and Metropolitan Influences

SCOTT J. SOUTH and KYLE D. CROWDER

1085  Information Gaps and Unintended Outcomes of Social Movements: The 1989 Chinese Student Movement

FANG DENG

1113  Peasants Help Destroy an Old Regime and Defy a New One: Some Lessons from (and for) the Study of Social Movements

JOHN MARKOFF

     Commentary and Debate

 1143  Same Data, Different Conclusions: Comment on Bernhardt et al.

DAVID A. COTTER, JOANN DEFIORE, JOAN M. HERMSEN, BRENDA MARSTELLAR KOWALEWSKI, and REEVE VANNEMAN

1154  Percentage, Odds, and the Meaning of Inequality: Reply to Cotter et al.

ANNETTE BERNHARDT, MARTINA MORRIS, and MARK S. HANDCOCK

     Review Essay

 1163  The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History by Rodney Stark

JONATHAN Z. SMITH

     Book Reviews

 1166  Power Restructuring in China and Russia by Mark Lupher

MARC GARCELON

1168  China's Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism by Hill Gates

PRASENJIT DUARA

1169  Social Capitalism: A Study of Christian Democracy and the Welfare State by Kees van Kersbergen

STATHIS N. KALYVAS

1171  Origins of a Spontaneous Revolution: East Germany, 1989 by Karl-Dieter Opp, Peter Voss, and Christiane Gern

ROD AYA and ANN VOGEL

1173  Can Europe Work? Germany and the Reconstruction of Postcommunist Societies, edited by Stephen E. Hanson and Willfried Spohn

THOMAS FAIST

1175  The Radical Right in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis by Herbert Kitschelt with Anthony J. McGann

GEORGE STEINMETZ

1177  State Autonomy or Class Dominance? Case Studies on Policy Making in America by G. William Domhoff

ELISABETH S. CLEMENS

1180  From the Outside In: World War II and the American State by Bartholomew H. Sparrow

MICHAEL K. BROWN

1182  Globalization in Question: The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance by Paul Hirst amd Grahame Thompson

ROLAND ROBERTSON

1183  Two Towns in Germany: Commerce and the Urban Transformation by Norbert Dannhaeuser

MARK SHANLEY

1185  Israel's Changing Society: Population, Ethnicity, and Development by Calvin Goldscheider

HAYA STIER

1187  International News and Foreign Correspondents by Stephen Hess

ROBERT L. STEVENSON

1189  Who Deliberates? Mass Media in Modern Democracy by Benjamin I. Page

ROBERT P. SNOW

1190  The Persistence of Purgatory by Richard K. Fenn

ALOIS HAHN

1192  Burning the Box of Beautiful Things: The Development of a Postmodern Sensibility by Alex Seago

JEAN-LOUIS FABIANI

1194  Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792–1803 by Tia DeNora

The Glory of van Gogh: An Anthropology of Admiration by Nathalie Heinich

VERA L. ZOLBERG

1198  Constructing School Success: The Consequences of Untracking Low-Achieving Students by Hugh Mehan, Irene Villanueva, Angela Lintz, and Lea Hubbard

GEORGE FARKAS

1199  Changing the Odds: Open Admissions and the Life Chances of the Disadvantaged by David E. Lavin and David Hyllegard

BARBARA HEYNS

1202  The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture, and Justice in America by John David Skrentny

KEITH REEVES

1204  A Town Abandoned: Flint, Michigan, Confronts Deindustrialization by Steven P. Dandaneau

MARTIN KENNEY

1205  Works Councils: Consultation, Representation, and Cooperation in Industrial Relations, edited by Joel Rogers and Wolfgang Streeck

GARY HERRIGEL

1208  Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest by Laura Pulido

ALLAN GREENBAUM

1210  Last Rites: The Work of the Modern Funeral Director by Glennys Howarth

MICHAEL C. KEARL

1212  Society and the Professions in Italy, 1860-1914, edited by Maria Malatesta

ELLIOTT A. KRAUSE

1214  Passing By: Gender and Public Harassment by Carol Brooks Gardner

LYNN S. CHANCER

1216  New Voices in the Nation: Women and the Greek Resistance, 1941–1964 by Janet Hart

LAURIE KAIN HART

1218  The Roads of Chinese Childhood: Learning and Identification in Angang by Charles Stafford

HILL GATES

1220  Crossing Frontiers: Gerontology Emerges as a Science by W. Andrew Achenbaum

HELENA ZNANIECKA LOPATA

1222  The Masada Myth: Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel by Nachman Ben-Yehuda

BARRY SCHWARTZ

1224  The Nation of Islam: An American Millenarian Movement by Martha F. Lee

LAURENCE MAMIYA

1225  Culture of Honor: The Psychology of Violence in the South by Richard E. Nisbett and Dov Cohen

STEVEN F. MESSNER

1227  Justifying Ethics: Human Rights and Human Nature by Jan Gorecki

Jean Bethke Elshtain

1229  The Time of the Tribes: The Decline of Individualism in Mass Society by Michel Maffesoli

Ronald N. Jacobs

1231  Society and Psyche: Social Theory and the Unconscious Dimension of the Social by Kanakis Leledakis

Ian Craib

1233  Nietzsche, Politics, and Modernity: A Critique of Liberal Reason by David Owen

Stjepan G. Mestrovic

1234  Reading Marx Writing: Melodrama the Market and the "Grundrisse" by Thomas M. Kemple

Kevin Anderson

1236  Really Existing Nationalisms: A Post-Communist View from Marx and Engels by Erica Benner

Roman Szporluk

1238  The Disunity of Science: Boundaries, Contexts, and Power, edited by Peter Galison and David J. Stump

Sal Restivo