Volume 103, No. 5, March 1998

1165 When Desegregation Reduces Interracial Contact: A Class Size Paradox for Weak Ties

SCOTT L. FELD and WILLIAM C. CARTER

1187 Can Class Analysis Be Salvaged?

DAVID B. GRUSKY and JESPER B. SØRENSEN

1235 The Gender Gap in U.S. Presidential Elections: When? Why? Implications?

JEFF MANZA and CLEM BROOKS

1267 International Competition and the Treatment of Minorities: Seventeenth-Century Cases and General Propositions

SAMUEL CLARK

1309 Agrarian Conflict and the Origins of Korean Capitalism

GI-WOOK SHIN

1352 Wit and Politics: An Essay on Power and Laughter

HANS SPEIER (translated by ROBERT JACKALL)

  Review Essay

1402 Reappraising Foucault

ARPÁD SZAKOLCZAI

   Book Reviews

1411 Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization by Arjun Appadurai

MARTIN ALBROW

1412 The Global Age: State and Society beyond Modernity by Martin Albrow

SASKIA SASSEN

1414 Citizenship, Nationality, and Ethnicity by T. K. Oommen

CRAIG CALHOUN

1417 Region, Religion, Caste, Gender, and Culture in Contemporary India, edited by T. V. Sathyamurthy

GERALD J. LARSON

1419 Japanese Civilization: A Comparative View by S.N. Eisenstadt

DOUGLAS HOWLAND

1421 Imagining Miami: Ethnic Politics in a Postmodern World by Sheila L. Croucher

RAYMOND A. MOHL

1424 Ethnic Los Angeles, edited by Roger Waldinger and Mehdi Bozorgmehr

WILLIAM ALONSO

1425 The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century, edited by Allen J. Scott and Edward W. Soja

MARK BALDASSARE

1427 Nationalism and Literature: The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States by Sarah M. Corse

PRISCILLA PARKHURST FERGUSON

1429 Italian Cultural Studies: An Introduction, edited by David Forgacs and Robert Lumley

MABEL BEREZIN

1432 Problematics of Sociology: The Georg Simmel Lectures, 1995 by Neil J. Smelser

ALAN SICA

1434 The Mark of the Social: Discovery or Invention? edited by John D. Greenwood

HEINZ-GÜNTER VESTER

1435 The Trouble with Evil: Social Control at the Edge of Morality by Edwin M. Lemert

TROY DUSTER

1437 Durkheim, Morals and Modernity by W. Watts Miller

EDWARD A. TIRYAKIAN

1439 The Intellectual Revolt against Liberal Democracy, 1870–1945: International Conference in Memory of Jacoby L. Talmon, edited by Zeev Sternhell

PATRICE LOUIS-RENÉ HIGONNET

1441 Anti-Semitism in Germany: The Post-Nazi Epoch since 1945 by Werner Bergmann and Rainer Erb

ELINOR SCARBROUGH

1443 Public and Private in Thought and Practice: Perspectives on a Grand Dichotomy, edited by Jeff Weintraub and Krishan Kumar

ELI ZARETSKY

1445 Private Wealth and Public Life: Foundation Philanthropy and the Reshaping of American Social Policy from the Progressive Era to the New Deal by Judith Sealander

PETER FRUMKIN

1447 Museums and Money: The Impact of Funding on Exhibitions, Scholarship, and Management by Victoria D. Alexander

DIANA CRANE

1449 Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America by Gretchen Ritter

BRUCE G. CARRUTHERS

1450 Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism, edited by Aihwa Ong and Donald M. Nonini

ALLEN CHUN

1453 Corporate Welfare Policy and the Welfare State: Bank Deregulation and the Savings and Loan Bailout by Davita Silfen Glasberg and Dan Skidmore

PATRICK AKARD

1455 Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century by Ruth Milkman

DAVID GARTMAN

1457 Field, Forest, and Family: Women's Work and Power in Rural Laos by Carol J. Ireson

RAE LESSER BLUMBERG

1459 Gender, Equality, and Welfare States by Diane Sainsbury

JILL QUADAGNO

1461 Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work by Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein

FRANCES FOX PIVEN

1463 Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy by Stephen Steinberg

MARY E. PATTILLO

1465 The Politics of Preference: Democratic Institutions and Affirmative Action in the United States and India by Sunita Parikh

JOHN ECHEVERRI-GENT

1467 The Search for Political Community: American Activists Reinventing Commitment by Paul Lichterman

IRA SILVER

1469 The Persistent Activist: How Peace Commitment Develops and Survives by James Downton, Jr., and Paul Wehr Hearts and Minds: The Controversy over Laboratory Animals by Julian McAllister Groves

BERT KLANDERMANS

1472 Identity, Interest, and Action: A Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years War by Erik Ringmar

THEODORE K. RABB

1474 Criminal Law, Tradition and Legal Order: Crime and the Genius of Scots Law, 1747 to the Present by Lindsay Farmer

IAN D. WILLOCK

1475 Governance of the Consuming Passions: A History of Sumptuary Law by Alan Hunt

CLARE CROWSTON

1477 Rituali di degradazione: Anatomia del processo Cusani by Pier Paolo Giglioli, Sandra Cavicchioli, and Giolo Fele

DAVID I. KERTZER

1479 Language, Charisma, and Creativity: The Ritual Life of a Religious Movement by Thomas J. Csordas

MARY JO NEITZ

1481 Veiled Threats: The Logic of Popular Catholicism in Italy by Michael P. Carroll

ADRIANO PROSPERI

1483 Imperiled Innocents: Anthony Comstock and Family Reproduction in Victorian America by Nicola Beisel

ELISABETH S. CLEMENS

1485 The Culture of Adolescent Risk-Taking by Cynthia Lightfoot

LAURENCE STEINBERG

1487 Practicing Desire: Homosexual Sex in the Era of AIDS by Gary W. Dowsett

JOHN H. GAGNON

1489 One of the Children: Gay Black Men in Harlem by William G. Hawkeswood

TOWNSAND PRICE-SPRATLEN

1491 Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation by Arlene Stein

JUDITH A. HOWARD