Volume 103, No. 4, January 1998

837 The Determinants of Deadly Force: A Structural Analysis of Police Violence

DAVID JACOBS and ROBERT M. O'BRIEN

863 Lost in Space: The Geography of Corporate Interlocking Directorates

CLIFFORD KONO, DONALD PALMER, ROGER FRIEDLAND, and MATTHEW ZAFONTE

912 Caveat Emptor: The Construction of Nonprofit Consumer Watchdog Organizations

HAYAGREEVA RAO

962 What Is Agency?

MUSTAFA EMIRBAYER and ANN MISCHE

1024 The Long-Term Effects of Foreign Investment Dependence on Economic Growth, 1940–1990

JEFFREY KENTOR

 Commentary and Debate

1047 Response to Hirsch's Review Essay

W. RICHARD SCOTT

1049 Rejoinder to Scott

PAUL HIRSCH

 Review Essay

1052 An Intellectual's Stock in the Factor of Mexico's Ruins (Mexico: Biography of Power by Enrique Krauze)

CLAUDIO LOMNITZ

 Book Reviews

1066 The Creativity of Action by Hans Joas

COLIN CAMPBELL

1068 Fin de Siècle Social Theory: Relativism, Reduction, and the Problem of Reason by Jeffrey C. Alexander

MICHÈLE LAMONT

1069 Sociological Reasoning: Towards a Past-Modern Sociology by Rob Stones

WILLIAM OUTHWAITE

1071 The Social Construction of Nature: A Sociology of Ecological Enlightenment by Klaus Eder

STEVEN NEY

1073 Marginalized in the Middle by Alan Wolfe

RICHARD MADSEN

1075 Genealogies for the Present in Cultural Anthropology by Bruce M. Knauft

MICHAEL M. J. FISCHER

1077 Communicative Interaction, Power, and the State: A Method by Frank M. Stark

JAMES FERNANDEZ

1078 Rational Choice Theory and Religion: Summary and Assessment, edited by Lawrence A. Young

JOHN R. HALL

1081 Congregation and Community by Nancy Tatom Ammerman

RHYS H. WILLIAMS

1083 Religion in the Age of Decline: Organisation and the Experience in Industrial Yorkshire, 1870–1920 by D. Green

STEVE BRUCE

1084 Glorious Battle: The Cultural Politics of Victorian Anglo-Catholocism by John Shelton Reed

GENE BURNS

1086 Radical Religion in America: Millenarian Movements from the Far Right to the Children of Noah by Jeffrey Kaplan

FRANK LECHNER

1088 Transnational Religion and Fading States, edited by Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and James Piscatori

DAVID A. SMILDE

1089 The New Temperance: The American Obsession with Sin and Vice by David Wagner

JOHN C. BURNHAM

1092 Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent: A South Korean Social Movement by Nancy Abelmann

HYUN OK PARK

1094 The Abolition of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords, and Legislators in the French Revolution by John Markoff

DAVID ZARET

1096 The Rhetoric of Moral Protest: Public Campaigns, Celebrity Endorsement, and Political Mobilization by Christian Lahusen

MAYER N. ZALD

1098 Crisis and Transformation: The Kibbutz at Century's End by Eliezer Ben-Rafael

BENJAMIN D. ZABLOCKI

1099 Historic Preservation: Collective Memory and Historical Identity by Diane Barthel

PATRICK HUTTON

1101 The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings by Michael Lynch and David Bogen

JANE H. HILL

1103 Between Politics and Reason: The Drug Legalization Debate by Erich Goode

JAMES A. INCIARDI

1104 Hybrids of Modernity: Anthropology, the Nation State and the Universal Exhibition by Penelope Harvey

VICTORIA D. ALEXANDER

1106 Interaction and Grammar, edited by Elinor Ochs, Emanuel A. Schegloff, and Sandra A. Thompson

ALLEN D. GRIMSHAW

1108 French Intellectual Nobility: Institutional and Symbolic Transformations in the Post-Sartrian Era by Niilo Kauppi

CHARLES LEMERT

1110 Fanon's Dialectic of Experience by Ato Sekyi-Otu

DAVID SCOTT

1113 Modernity and the State: East, West by Claus Offe

FRED BLOCK

1115 Realignments in the Welfare State: Health Policy in the United States, Britain, and Canada by Mary Ruggie

TERRY BOYCHUK

1117 Big Business, Strong State: Collusion and Conflict in South Korean Development, 1960–1990 by Eun Mee Kim

CHANGWON LEE

1119 Hungary's Negotiated Revolution: Economic Reform, Social Change, and Political Succession, 1957–1990 by Rudolf Tökés

CAMILLE M. BUSETTE

1121 Desert Capitalism: Maquiladoras in North America's Western Industrial Corridor by Kathryn Kopinak

LESLIE SKLAIR

1122 Ending a Career in the Auto Industry: "30 and Out" by Melissa Hardy, Lawrence Hazelrigg, and Jill Quadagno

ANGELA O'RAND

1125 Living Rooms as Factories: Class, Gender, and the Satellite Factory System in Taiwan by Ping-Chun Hsiung

KUANG-CHI CHANG

1127 Heroic Defeats: The Politics of Job Loss by Miriam Golden

CHRIS TILLY

1129 When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor by William Julius Wilson

JOE R. FEAGIN

1131 The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit by Thomas J. Sugrue

BOBBY M. WILSON

1132 It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty by Rebecca M. Blank

NANCY A. DENTON

1134 Saving Our Children from Poverty: What the United States Can Learn from France by Barbara R. Bergmann

SUZANNE M. BIANCHI

1136 Development, Change, and Gender in Cairo: A View from the Household, edited by Diane Singerman and Homa Hoodfar

VALERIE J. HOFFMAN

1138 Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition, edited by Gabriel Haslip-Viera and Sherrie L. Baver

HÉCTOR CORDERO-GUZMÁN

1140 Life Lines: Community, Family, and Assimilation among Asian Indian Immigrants by Jean Bacon

NAZLI KIBRIA

1141 Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability by Myron Orfield

ALLEN J. SCOTT

1144 Gangsters: Fifty Years of Madness, Drugs, and Death on the Streets of America by Lewis Yablonsky

DANIEL MONTI

1145 Continuity and Discontinuity in Criminal Careers by Paul E. Tracy and Kimberly Kempf-Leonard

ELMAR G. M. WEITEKAMP

1147 The Self in the Family: A Classification of Personality, Criminality, and Psychopathology by Luciano L'Abate, with Margaret S. Baggett

KENNETH C. LAND

1149 Homicide, Race, and Justice in the American West, 1880–1920 by Clare V. McKanna, Jr.

RICHARD BLOCK

1151 Screening the Los Angeles "Riots": Race, Seeing, and Resistance by Darnell M. Hunt

RICHARD M. MERELMAN

1153 White Lies: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in White Supremacist Discourse by Jessie Daniels

NOEL A. CAZENAVE

1154 Teen Mothers and the Revolving Welfare Door by Kathleen Mullan Harris

SANDRA K. DANZIGER

1156 Immigration and the Family: Research and Policy on U.S. Immigrants, edited by Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter, and Nancy Landale

NANCY FONER

1158 The Modernization of Fatherhood: A Social and Political History by Ralph LaRossa

E. ANTHONY ROTUNDO

1160 A History of the Family: vol. 1, Distant Words, Ancient Worlds; vol. 2, The Impact of Modernity, edited by André Burguière, Chistiane Klapisch-Zuber, Martine Segalen, and François Zonabend

ROSANNA HERTZ

Contents

Volume 103, No. 3, November 1997

531 Celebration and Supression: The Strategic Uses of Identity by the Lesbian and Gay Movement

MARY BERNSTEIN

566 Sex Segregation and Glass Ceilings: A Comparative Statics Model of Women's Career Opportunities in the Federal Government over a Quarter of a Century

HISASHI YAMAGATA, KUANG S. YEH, SHELBY STEWMAN, and HIROKO DODGE

633 Political Culture Wars 1960s Style: Equal Opportunity Employment–Affirmative Action and the Philadelphia Plan

NICHOLAS PEDRIANA and ROBIN STRYKER

692 Whose Expectations Matter? The Relative Power of First- and Second-Order Expectations in Determining Social Influence

LISA TROYER and C. WESLEY YOUNTS

733 Runaway Train? The Diffusion of State-Level Reform in ADC/AFDC Eligibility Requirements, 1940–1967

SARAH A. SOULE and YVONNE ZYLAN

   Book Reviews

763 Challenging Codes: Collective Action in the Information Age by Alberto Melucci

 The Playing Self: Person and Meaning in the Planetary Society by Alberto Melucci

ALAIN TOURAINE

765 Organizing Dissent: Unions, the State, and the Democratic Teachers' Movement in Mexico by Maria Lorena Cook

DIANE E. DAVIS

767 Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge by Steven Epstein

KELLY MOORE

769 The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA by Diane Vaughan

PETER K. MANNING

772 Reconfiguring Truth: Postmodernism, Science Studies, and the Search for a New Model of Knowledge by Steven C. Ward

NICO STEHR

774 Contingency Theory: Rethinking the Boundaries of Social Thought by Gary Itzkowitz

ANDREW PICKERING

775 International Orders by John A. Hall

RICHARD ROSECRANCE

777 An Anticlassical Political-Economic Analysis: A Vision for the Next Century by Yasusuke Murakami

WILLIAM W. GRIMES

779 Democracy, Capitalism and Empire in Late Victorian Britain, 1885-1910 by E. Spencer Wellhofer

ANTOINETTE BURTON

781 French Revolutionary Syndicalism and the Public Sphere by Kenneth H. Tucker, Jr.

ALBERTO SPEKTOROWSKI

785 National Interests in International Society by Martha Finnemore

DAVID DESSLER

787 The Little Czech and the Great Czech Nation: National Identity and the Post-Communist Transformation of Society by Ladislav Holy

PETER RUTLAND

789 The Clash of Rights: Liberty, Equality, and Legitimacy in Pluralist Democracy by Paul M. Sniderman, Joseph F. Fletcher, Peter H. Russell, and Philip E. Tetlock

DONNA GRESCHNER

790 Multi-Ethnic Canada: Identities and Inequalities by Leo Driedger

IVAN LIGHT

792 The Theming of America: Dreams, Visions, and Commercial Spaces by Mark Gottdiener

DAVID CHANEY

794 Handwriting in America: A Cultural History by Tamara Plakins Thornton

JOHN BOLI

796 Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering by Marita Sturken

GEORGE LIPSITZ

798 My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity by Eric L. Santner

MICHAEL P. STEINBERG

801 Disciplining Old Age: The Formation of Gerontological Knowledge by Stephen Katz

VICTOR W. MARSHALL

803 Life without Father: Compelling New Evidence that Fatherhood and Marriage Are Indispensable for the Good of Children and Society by David Popenoe

FRANK F. FURSTENBERG

806 Ambition and Accommodation: How Women View Gender Relations by Roberta S. Sigel

ELAINE J. HALL

808 Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after "Roe v. Wade" by Carole Joffe

MATHIEU DEFLEM

810 States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity by Wendy Brown

JOAN COCKS

811 Gendering the Middle East: Emerging Perspectives, edited by Deniz Kandiyoti

SONDRA HALE

814 The Social Construction of Virtue: The Moral Life of Schools by George W. Noblit and Van O. Dempsey with Belmira Bueno, Peter Hessling, Doris Kendrick, and Reeda Toppin

CHAUNCY HART LENNON

816 Human Capital or Cultural Capital? Ethnicity and Poverty Groups in an Urban School District by George Farkas

ANNETTE LAREAU

818 Work-Place: The Social Regulation of Labor Markets by Jamie Peck

ANDREW SAYER

819 Black Corporate Executives: The Making and Breaking of a Black Middle Class by Sharon M. Collins

BART LANDRY

821 Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race by K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann

LES BACK

823 The Ownership of Enterprise by Henry Hansmann

NEIL FLIGSTEIN

825 Investor Capitalism: How Money Managers Are Changing the Face of Corporate America by Michael Useem

VICKI SMITH

827 The Reportage of Urban Culture: Robert Park and the Chicago School by Rolf Lindner

LYN H. LOFLAND

828 Community, Culture, and Economic Development: The Social Roots of Local Action by Meredith Ramsay

DANIEL J. MONTI, JR.

830 On Voluntary Servitude: False Consciousness and the Theory of Ideology by Michael Rosen

DONALD HERZOG

832 Time and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions by Stephen E. Hanson

PHILIP G. ROEDER

833 Regression Models for Categorical and Limited Dependent Variables by J. Scott Long

ALAN AGRESTI