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A JOURNAL of REVIEWS November 2009 – Volume 38 – Number 6 A JOURNAL OF REVIEWS November 2009 – Volume 38 – Number 6 EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR ASSISTANT EDITORS Alan Sica Anne Sica Kathryn Densberger CONTEXTS Richard M. Simon Understanding People in their Social Worlds Pennsylvania State University EDITORS // EDITORIAL BOARD Christopher Uggen Paul Amato Yen Le Espiritu Andrew Noymer Douglas Hartman Pennsylvania State University University of California, University of California, Irvine San Diego DETAILS // Robert Antonio Jennifer Pierce University of Kansas Joan H. Fujimura University of Minnesota ISSN: 1536-5042 University of Wisconsin eISSN: 1537-6052 Karen Barkey Harland Prechel 2009, Vol 8 Joe Gerteis Columbia University Texas A&M University February, May, August, University of Minnesota Sharon R. Bird Robert Sampson November Iowa State University Janice Irvine Harvard University University of Massachusetts, Victoria Bonnell Amherst Michael Schudson University of California, University of California, Berkeley Nazli Kibria San Diego Boston University Alan Booth Wendy Simonds Pennsylvania State University Douglas Klayman Georgia State University Social Dynamics, LLC Rose Brewer Neil Smelser University of Minnesota Charles Lemert University of California, Wesleyan University Berkeley Dana Britton Kansas State University Nicole Marwell Christian Smith An award-winning quarterly magazine of the American Sociological Columbia University Notre Dame University Association, Contexts presents cutting-edge perspectives on the Craig Calhoun New York University John McCarthy Mindy Stombler most provocative issues facing contemporary society. This pioneering Pennsylvania State University Georgia State University journal brings accessible, incisive writing and the best of sociological Bruce Carruthers Northwestern University Ruth Milkman Judith Treas inquiry to bear on crucial concerns such as poverty, education, pop University of California, University of California, culture, immigration, religion, environmental justice, and much more. Georgi Derluguian Los Angeles Irvine Northwestern University Valentine Moghadam Stephen Turner Paul DiMaggio Purdue University University of South Florida WWW.UCPRESSJOURNALS.COM Princeton University Mignon Moore Jeff Ulmer Francis Dodoo University of California, Pennsylvania State University Pennsylvania State University Los Angeles Elaine Draper Ann Morning California State University, New York University Los Angeles Job Name:95098 Date:09-11-13 PDF Page:95098pbc.p2.pdf Color: Black CONTENTS vii Editor’s Remarks Looking Forward by Looking Back REVIEW ESSAYS The Last Thirty Years 507 Morris Janowitz The Last Half-Century: Societal Change and Andrew Abbott Politics in America How Organized is International Crime? 516 Roberto Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent Randall Collins Saviano, International Empire of Naples’ Organized translated by Crime System Virginia Jewiss Misha Glenny McMafia: A Journey through the Global Criminal Underworld Paul Gootenberg Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug REVIEWS Culture 522 Paul Frosh and Media Witnessing: Testimony in the Age of Sam Han Amit Mass Communication Pinchevski, eds. 523 Jeremy Gilbert Anticapitalism and Culture: Radical Theory Michael and Popular Politics McQuarrie 524 Kenneth C.W. A Hypersexual Society: Sexual Discourse, Michael David Kammeyer Erotica, and Pornography in America Today Franklin 526 Barbara A. Intellectuals and the Public Good: Creativity Joseph C. Misztal and Civil Courage Hermanowicz 527 Gregory J. Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York’s Katherine Giuffre Snyder Urban Underground Demography 528 Nickie Charles, Families in Transition: Social Change, Family Frances K. Charlotte Aull Formation, and Kin Relationships Goldscheider Davies and Chris Harris 529 Jacqueline Migration Miracle: Faith, Hope, and Meaning Cecilia Menjívar Maria Hagan on the Undocumented Journey Author Title Reviewer Deviance and Control 531 Allison M. Effigy: Images of Capital Defendants Amber E. Cotton Boydstun 532 Michael P. A Typology of Domestic Violence: Intimate Kristin L. Johnson Terrorism, Violent Resistance, and Situational Anderson Couple Violence 533 John H. Kramer Sentencing Guidelines: Lessons from Robert C. Hauhart and Jeffery T. Pennsylvania Ulmer 535 Michael Lynch, Truth Machine: The Contentious History of Troy Duster Simon A. Cole, DNA Fingerprinting Ruth McNally and Kathleen Jordan 536 Peter Moskos Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Nick Larsen Eastern District 538 Frank van Street Gangs, Migration and Ethnicity Vera Lopez Gemert, Dana Peterson and Inger-Lise Lien, eds. Education 539 Burton R. On Higher Education: Selected Writings, John Aubrey Clarke, with 1956–2006 Douglas Adele Clark 541 Bruce L. R. Closed Minds? Politics and Ideology in Richard Flacks Smith, Jeremy American Universities D. Mayer and A. Lee Fritschler 542 Pamela Education Research on Trial: Policy Reform David B. Bills Barnhouse and the Call for Scientific Rigor Walters, Annette Lareau, and Sheri H. Ranis, eds. Ethnicity 544 Korie L. The Elusive Dream: The Power of Race in Shayne Lee Edwards Interracial Churches 545 Evelyn Nakano Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters Tanya Golash- Glenn, ed. Boza 546 Pyong Gap Min Ethnic Solidarity for Economic Survival: Edward Chang Korean Greengrocers in New York City Health 548 Ann K. Boulis The Changing Face of Medicine: Women Laura A. Schmidt and Jerry A. Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in Jacobs America 549 People’s Health Global Health Watch 2: An Alternative World Alaka M. Basu Movement, Health Report Medact, Global Equity Gauge Alliance Author Title Reviewer Politics 551 Yildiz Atasoy, Hegemonic Transitions, the State and Crisis in Alessandro ed. Neoliberal Capitalism Bonanno 552 Xavier de Souza Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity Thomas Janoski Briggs in Communities Across the Globe 553 Jessica R. High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Christopher Cattelino Sovereignty Wetzel 555 Heather Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Global Jackie Smith Gautney, Omar Justice Dahbour, Ashley Dawson, and Neil Smith, eds. 556 Charles Democracy Denied, 1905–1915: Intellectuals Daniel Chirot Kurzman and the Fate of Democracy 557 Vincent Mosco The Laboring of Communication: Will Dan Clawson and Catherine Knowledge Workers of the World Unite? McKercher 558 Lina Newton Illegal, Alien, or Immigrant: The Politics of Cybelle Fox Immigration Reform 560 Kevin J. Popular Protest in China Xiaodan Zhang O’Brien, ed. 561 Deborah A. Stories of Inclusion?: Power, Privilege, and Paul Joseph Piatelli Difference in a Peace and Justice Network 562 Ray Taras Europe Old and New: Transnationalism, Christopher A. Belonging, and Xenophobia Bail 563 Steven M. Teles The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: Rory McVeigh The Battle for Control of the Law 565 Laura L. The Contemporary US Peace Movement John F. Galliher Toussaint 566 Lynne M. Contesting Patriotism: Culture, Power, and Ellis Jones Woehrle, Patrick Strategy in the Peace Movement G. Coy, and Gregory M. Maney Sexuality, Gender, and Social Psychology 567 George A. Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Sajay Samuel Akerlof and Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Robert J. Shiller Global Capitalism 569 Steven Hitlin Moral Selves, Evil Selves: The Social Thomas J. Scheff Psychology of Conscience 570 Celia Roberts Messengers of Sex: Hormones, Biomedicine and Rosemary L. Feminism Hopcroft Stratification 571 Vicki L. Income Inequality in Capitalist Democracies: Lane Kenworthy Birchfield The Interplay of Values and Institutions 572 Ruchira Globalisation and the Middle Classes in India: Brandon Ganguly-Scrase The Social and Cultural Impact of Neoliberal Vaidyanathan and Timothy J. Reforms Scrase 574 Kath Weston Traveling Light: On the Road with America’s Timothy Pippert Poor Author Title Reviewer Theory and Methods 575 Rebecca Jean The Undevelopment of Capitalism: Sectors and Eric Mielants Emigh Markets in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany 576 Lane Kenworthy Method and Substance in Macrocomparative David Weakliem and Alexander Analysis Hicks, eds. 577 Nicos P. Modern and Postmodern Social Theorizing: Philip Walsh Mouzelis Bridging the Divide 579 Lloyd H. Rogler Barrio Professors: Tales of Naturalistic Tennille Allen Research 580 Philip Selznick A Humanist Science: Values and Ideals in Douglas V. Social Inquiry Porpora 581 Frédéric A Philosophical History of German Sociology Christopher Adair- Vandenberghe Toteff 583 Thomas The Frankfurt School in Exile George E. Wheatland McCarthy Urban and Communities 584 Nicholas Dagen Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Sharon Zukin Bloom Twentieth Century 586 Mary Chayko Portable Communities: The Social Dynamics of Jessie Daniels Richard Online and Mobile Connectedness 587 Gendron and The Leftmost City: Power and Progressive Thomas H. Koenig G. William Politics in Santa Cruz Domhoff 588 Derek S. Hyra The New Urban Renewal: The Economic Bruce D. Haynes Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville 590 Sean Safford Why the Garden Club Couldn’t Save Charles S. Varano Youngstown: The Transformation of the Rust Belt Work and Organizations 591 Arthur P. Brief, Diversity at Work Ellen C. Berrey ed. 593 Kerry B. Fosher Under Construction: Making Homeland Eric Klinenberg Security at the Local Level 594 Jessica Johnston Technological Turf Wars: A Case Study of the Linus Huang Computer Antivirus Industry 596 Alexandra Bullish on Uncertainty: How Organizational Doug Guthrie Michel and Cultures Transform Participants Stanton Wortham 597 Hayagreeva Rao Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break
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