Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews

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Meeting report
Restricted accessMeeting reportFirst published September, 2007pp. 411-413
Product Review: An Archaeology of Sociology: Ancient Roots of a Modern Discipline
Philip S. Gorski
Meeting report
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Product Review: The Modernity of Athens in a Comparative Evolutionary Perspective
S.N. Eisenstadt
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Product Review: Commentary on Gorski and Eisenstadt
Robert N. Bellah
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Product Review: The State of (Cumulative Theoretical) Social Psychology
Judith A. Howard
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Product Review: Integrating Human Rights and Human Nature
Irving Louis Horowitz
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Product Review: Who Are the Deciders Now? The Legacy of C. Wright Mills
Jill Quadagno
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Product Review: Public Intellectuals: Academics and Movements
Dan Clawson
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Product Review: Crossing the Line: Vagrancy,Homelessness and Social Displacement in Russia
Kurt Borchard
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Product Review: Girls in Power: Gender,Body,and Menstruation in Adolescence
Laura M. Carpenter
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Product Review: Unruly Immigrants: Rights,Activism,and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States
Pawan Dhingra
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Product Review: The Black Middle Class: Social Mobility–and Vulnerability
Joe R. Feagin
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Product Review: Knocking on the Door: The Federal Government's Attempt to Desegregate the Suburbs
Rick Grannis
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Product Review: Race,Work,and Family in the Lives of African Americans
Leslie Baker Kimmons
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Product Review: The American Dream and the Power of Wealth: Choosing Schools and Inheriting Inequality in the Land of Opportunity
Jason Rodriquez
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Product Review: Women,Gender,and Technology
Laurel Smith-DoerrCourtney Feldscher
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Product Review: Approaches to Class Analysis
Florencia Torche
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Product Review: The Arab Jews: A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism,Religion,and Ethnicity
Diane L. Wolf
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Product Review: Immigration,Gender,and Family Transitions to Adulthood in Sweden
Nancy Foner
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Product Review: Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective
Hans Geser
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Product Review: After the Fall of the Wall: Life Courses in the Transformation of East Germany
Ansgar Weymann
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Product Review: Contesting Communities: The Transformation of Workplace Charity
Peter Frumkin
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Product Review: Demanding Work: The Paradox of Job Quality in the Affluent Economy
Lane Kenworthy
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Product Review: Modeling Life: Art Models Speak About Nudity,Sexuality,and the Creative Process
John C. Kilburn
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Product Review: Worker Skills and Job Requirements: Is There a Mismatch?
Elizabeth Monk-Turner
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Product Review: Working Construction: Why White Working-Class Men Put Themselves–and the Labor Movement–in Harm's Way
Deirdre A. Royster
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Product Review: Organizational Encounters with Risk
Gerald Zeitz
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Product Review: Good Humor,Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke
Joel Best
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Product Review: Getting Your Way: Strategic Dilemmas in the Real World
Robin Wagner-Pacifici
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Product Review: Planning the Past: Heritage Tourism and Post-Colonial Politics at Port Royal
Diane Barthel-Bouchier
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Product Review: The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland
Joseph Gusfield
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Product Review: The Hard Count: The Political and Social Challenges of Census Mobilization
Dudley L. Poston
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Product Review: Mexican Immigrants in the Labor Market: The Strength of Strong Ties
Marcos Burgos
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Product Review: Social Capital in the City: Community and Civic Life in Philadelphia
David Grazian
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Product Review: The Sage Handbook of Rural Studies
Max J. Pfeffer
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Product Review: Multiple Origins,Uncertain Destinies: Hispanics and the American Future
Wendy D. Roth
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Product Review: Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States
John H. Evans
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Product Review: Exit-Voice Dynamics and the Collapse of East Germany: The Crisis of Leninism and the Revolution of 1989
John K. Glenn
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Product Review: Changing the Guard: Developing Democratic Police Abroad
Peter K. Manning
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Product Review: Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation
Michael S. Neiberg
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Product Review: Justice in the United States: Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution
Gideon Sjoberg
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Product Review: State-Corporate Crime: Wrongdoing at the Intersection of Business and Government
Gregg Barak
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Product Review: The Truce: Lesson from an L.A. Gang War
Randol Contreras
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Product Review: Out of Order: The Political Imprisonment of Women in Northern Ireland,1972-1998
Jeanne Flavin
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Product Review: Native Americans and the Criminal Justice System
Hiroshi Fukurai
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Product Review: Gangs in the Global City: Alternatives to Traditional Criminology
Malcolm W. Klein
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Product Review: Understanding Crime Statistics: Revisiting the Divergence of the NCVS and UCR
Kenneth C. Land
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Product Review: What Works in Corrections: Reducing the Criminal Activities of Offenders and Delinquents
George Mair
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Product Review: The Explanation of Crime: Context,Mechanisms and Development
Charles R. Tittle
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Product Review: Straightedge Youth: Complexity and Contradictions of a Subculture
John F. Galliher
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Product Review: The Politics of Protest: Social Movements in America
John Krinsky
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Product Review: Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century
David J. Leonard
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Product Review: The Global Dynamics of Racial and Ethnic Mobilization
Sun-Ki Chai
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Product Review: Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Ho-fung Hung
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Product Review: Global Feminism: Transnational Women's Activism,Organizing,and Human Rights
Susanne Zwingel
Other
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Take Note
Other
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Publications Received
Editorial
Restricted accessEditorialFirst published September, 2007pp. vii-viii
Editors' Note: Theory,History,Aplication,and Politics
Valerie JennessDavid A. SmithJudith Stepan-Norris

Volume 36, Issue 5, September 2007