Volume 102, No. 5, March 1997

1241  Social Science and the Quest for a Just Society

IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN

1258  Between Markets and Politics: Organizational Responses to Reform in China

DOUGLAS GUTHRIE

 1305  Productive Activities and Support Systems of Single Mothers

LINGXIN HAO and MARY C. BRINTON

 1345  Networks of Contention: Villages and Regional Structure in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire

KAREN BARKEY and RONAN VAN ROSSEM

1383  Generalized Exchange

PETER BEARMAN

   Commentary and Debate

 1416  Whose Sociology Is It? Comment on Huber

NORMAN K. DENZIN

 1423  Of Facts and Fables: Reply to Denzin

JOAN HUBER and JOHN MIROWSKY

  Review Essay

 1430  The Soviet Dissent into Capitalism

MICHAEL BURAWOY

  Book Reviews

 1445  Down from Bureaucracy: The Ambiguity of Privatization and Empowerment by Joel F. Handler

MICHAEL B. KATZ

 1447  The Modern Corporation and American Political Thought: Law, Power, and Ideology by Scott R. Bowman

ERIC W. ORTS

 1448  Constitutive Criminology: Beyond Postmodernism by Stuart Henry and Dragan Milovanovic

MARK COLVIN

1450  Aramis, or the Love of Technology by Bruno Latour

THOMAS F. GIERYN

 1453  The East in the West by Jack Goody

JOHN A. HALL

1454  Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change since the Great Leap Famine by Dali L. Yang

VICTOR NEE

 1456  Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment: The Political Economy of the Caribbean World by Arthur L. Stinchcombe

DALE TOMICH

 1458  Honor and Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses, Masks, Dressing as a Woman, Gifts, Strangers, Humanitarianism, Death, Slave Rebellions, the Pro-Slavery Argument, Baseball, Hunting, and Gambling by Kenneth S. Greenberg

BERTRAM WYATT-BROWN

 1460  Of Borders and Dreams: A Mexican-American Experience of Urban Education by Chris Liska Carger

Con Respeto: Bridging the Distances between Culturally Diverse Families and Schools by Guadalupe Valdés

NORMA WILLIAMS

 1462  What Employers Want: Job Prospects for Less-Educated Workers by Harry J. Holzer

KATHRYN M. NECKERMAN

1464  The Cultures of Cities by Sharon Zukin

ROB SHIELDS

 1466  New Ethnicities and Urban Culture: Racisms and Multiculture in Young Lives by Les Back

LI ZONG

 1469  The Heartland Chronicles by Douglas E. Foley

SYLVIA RODRÍGUEZ

 1470  American Indian Ethnic Renewal: Red Power and the Resurgence of Identity and Culture by Joane Nagel

GARY D. SANDEFUR

 1472  Against Capital Punishment: The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in America, 1972–1994 by Herbert H. Haines

ED WALSH

 1474  The Militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1978–1992: Low-Intensity Conflict Doctrine Comes Home by Timothy J. Dunn

MANUEL MORENO-EVANS

1476  Resisting Reagan: The U.S. Central America Peace Movement by Christian Smith

JAMES M. JASPER

 1478  Evangelism and Apostasy: The Evolution and Impact of Evangelicals in Modern Mexico by Kurt Bowen

ELIZABETH E. BRUSCO

 1480  Visionaries: The Spanish Republic and the Reign of Christ by William A. Christian, Jr.

SANDRA L. ZIMDARS-SWARTZ

 1482  The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City by Matthew C. Gutmann

CLAIRE I. VIADRO

 1483  American Gay by Stephen O. Murray

STEVEN EPSTEIN

 1485  Am I Thin Enough Yet? The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity by Sharlene Hesse-Biber

KAREN HONEYCUTT

 1487  Tasting Food, Tasting Culture: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past by Sidney W. Mintz

GARY ALAN FINE

 1489  Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work by Gary Alan Fine

DENNIS RAY WHEATON

 1491  Home and Work: Negotiating Boundaries through Everyday Life by Christena E. Nippert-Eng

MARJORIE L. DeVAULT

 1492  Segmented Labor, Fractured Politics: Labor Politics in American Life by William Form

SAM ROSENBERG

 1494  Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States by Thomas Streeter

WILLIAM HOYNES

 1496  Power, Ideology, and Control by John C. Oliga

RICHARD MÜNCH

 1498  Pedagogy, Symbolic Control, and Identity: Theory, Research, Critique by Basil Bernstein

PETER W. COOKSON, JR.

 1500  James S. Coleman, edited by Jon Clark

THOMAS VOSS

 1502  The Causes of Human Behavior: Implications for Theory and Method in the Social Sciences by Lawrence B. Mohr

DANIEL LITTLE

 1504  Faculty at Work: Motivation, Expectation, Satisfaction by Robert T. Blackburn and Janet H. Lawrence

ZELDA F. GAMSON

1506  Witnessing for Sociology: Sociologists in Court, edited by Pamela J. Jenkins and Steve Kroll-Smith

JOAN McCORD

 1508  The Psychiatric Team and the Social Definition of Schizophrenia: An Anthropological Study of Person and Illness by Rob Barrett

SUE E. ESTROFF