Volume 104, No. 4, January 1999

985 Prison Riots as Microrevolutions: An Extension of State-Centered Theories of Revolution

JACK A. GOLDSTONE AND BERT USEEM 

1030 How Unregulated Is the U.S. Labor Market? The Penal System as a Labor Market Institution

BRUCE WESTERN AND KATHERINE BECKETT 

1061 The Enduring Effects of Cohort Characteristics on Age-Specific Homicide Rates, 1960-1995

ROBERT M. O'BRIEN, JEAN STOCKARD, AND LYNNE ISAACSON 

1096 Low Socioeconomic Status and Mental Disorders: A Longitudinal Study of Selection and Causation during Young Adulthood

RICHARD A. MIECH, AVSHALOM CASPI, TERRIE E. MOFFITT, BRADLEY R. ENTNER WRIGHT, AND PHIL A. SILVA 

1132 Market Partitioning and the Geometry of the Resource Space

GÁBOR PÉLI AND BART NOOTEBOOM 

1154 Nominal, Ordinal, and Narrative Appraisal in Macrocausal Analysis

JAMES MAHONEY 

Book Reviews

1197 Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity by Richard A. Peterson

KAREN A. CERULO 

1198 The Sociology of Taste by Jukka Gronow

DANIEL THOMAS COOK 

1200 Possessed by the Past: The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History by David Lowenthal

MATT K. MATSUDA 

1202 Sinners, Lovers, and Heroes: An Essay on Memorializing in Three American Cultures by Richard Morris

JOHN BODNAR 

1204 Rebellious Laughter: People's Humor in American Culture by Joseph Boskin

JASON B. JIMERSON 

1205 Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience by Susan Davis

EVA ILLOUZ 

1208 Trapped in the Net: The Unanticipated Consequences of Computerization by Gene I. Rochlin

ROB KLING 

1210 The Terror of the Machine: Technology, Work, Gender, and Ecology on the U.S.-Mexican Border by Devon G. Peña

MELISSA W. WRIGHT 

1212 After Lean Production: Evolving Employment Practices in the World Auto Industry, edited by Thomas A. Kochan, Russell D. Lansbury, and John Paul MacDuffie

JAMES RINEHART 

1214 Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women by Virginia Valian

CAROL NAGY JACKLIN 

1216 Under the Cover of Kindness: The Invention of Social Work by Leslie Margolin

JERRY FLOERSCH 

1218 Franchise Law Firms and the Transformation of Personal Legal Services by Jerry Van Hoy

JEAN E. WALLACE 

1220 Party or Patient? Discursive Practices Relating to Coercion in Psychiatric and Legal Settings by Stefan Sjöström

ROB BARRETT 

1222 Disrupted Lives: How People Create Meaning in a Chaotic World by Gay Becker

BRYAN S. TURNER 

1224 Real Heat: Gender and Race in the Urban Fire Service by Carol Chetkovich

CYNTHIA FUCHS EPSTEIN 

1225 Global Diasporas: An Introduction by Robin Cohen

MOVINDRI REDDY 

1227 The Racial Contract by Charles W. Mills

STEPHEN STEINBERG 

1228 Angels' Town: Chero Ways, Gang Life, and Rhetorics of the Everyday by Ralph Cintron

PHILIP SMITH 

1230 A Generation at Risk: Growing Up in an Era of Family Upheaval by Paul A. Amato and Alan Booth

ANDREW J. CHERLIN 

1232 From Cashbox to Classroom: The Struggle for Fiscal Reform and Educational Change in New Jersey by William A. Firestone, Margaret E. Goertz, and Gary Natriello

DORIS R. ENTWISLE 

1234 Community Service and Higher Learning: Explorations of the Caring Self by Robert A. Rhoads

JOSEPH KAHNE 

1236 Political Activists in America: The Identity Construction Model of Political Participation by Nathan Teske

RICHARD L. WOOD 

1238 Charismatic Christianity: Sociological Perspectives, edited by Stephen Hunt, Malcolm Hamilton, and Tony Walter

BRYAN WILSON 

1239 On the Boundaries of American Evangelicalism: The Postwar Evangelical Coalition by Jon R. Stone

MARK A. NOLL 

1241 A Treatise on Social Theory. Vol. 3, Applied Social Theory by W. G. Runciman

ARTHUR L. STINCHCOMBE 

1243 Max Weber's Methodology: The Unification of the Cultural and Social Sciences by Fritz Ringer

GUENTHER ROTH 

1245 The Problem of Trust by Adam B. Seligman

MARGARET LEVI 

1246 Moral Order and Social Disorder: The American Search for Civil Society by Frank Hearn

JOHN P. HEWITT 

1248 The People's Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890-1925 by Elisabeth S. Clemens

LAWRENCE ALFRED POWELL 

1250 Plutocracy and Politics in New York City by Gabriel A. Almond

G. WILLIAM DOMHOFF 

1252 Passages to Power: Legislative Recruitment in Advanced Democracies, edited by Pippa Norris

LINDA L. FOWLER 

1254 The Politics of Sex: Prostitution and Pornography in Australia since 1945 by Barbara Sullivan

LYNN SANDERS 

1256 Male Femaling: A Grounded Theory Approach to Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing by Richard Ekins

SUZANNE J. KESSLER 

1258 Queer Fictions of the Past: History, Culture, and Difference by Scott Bravmann

MARY BERNSTEIN 

1260 Armed Robbers in Action: Stickups and Street Culture by Richard T. Wright and Scott H. Decker

MERCER L. SULLIVAN