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November 2006 Volume 35 Number 6 American Sociological Association November 2006 Volume 35 Number 6 Volume 2006 November Association American Sociological C O N T E M P O R A RY SO C I O L O G Y • A JO U R N A L OF RE V I E W S November 2006, Volume 35, Number 6 ContemporaryContemporary SociologySociology AA JJOURNALOURNAL OF OF RREVIEWSEVIEWS November 2006 Volume 35 Number 6 MANAGING EDITORS ASSISTANT EDITOR Valerie Jenness EDITORS Christin Hilgeman Jenny Fan David A. Smith Michael Smyth Judith Stepan-Norris Nathanael Matthiesen University of California–Irvine EDITORIAL BOARD Edwin Amenta Heidi Gottfried Joya Misra University of California- Wayne State University University of Massachusetts Irvine Rick Grannis Mansoor Moaddel Stanley Bailey University of California-Los Eastern Michigan University University of California- Angeles Irvine Joane Nagel Roderick Joseph University of Kansas Albert J. Bergesen Harrison University of Arizona Howard University Michael Omi Maria Charles University of California- Darnell M. Hunt Berkeley University of California-San University of California-Los Diego Angeles Anne Warfield Rawls Mary Danico Bentley College Larry Isaac California State Polytechnic Vanderbilt University Jen’nan Ghazal Read University-Pomona University of California- Hector Delgado Shirley A. Jackson Irvine University of La Verne Southern Connecticut State University J. Timmons Roberts Mario Diani College of William and Mary University of Trento (Italy) Guillermina Jasso New York University Pamela Ann Roby Elaine Alma Draper University of California- California State University- Nazli Kibria Santa Cruz Los Angeles Boston University Beverly Silver Rebecca J. Erickson Eun Mee Kim Johns Hopkins University The University of Akron Ewha Woman’sUniversity Alvin Y. So Peter B. Evans Kenneth C. Land Hong Kong University of University of California- Duke University Science and Technology Berkeley Jan Lin Randy Stoecker Katherine Faust Occidental College University of California- University of Wisconsin- Irvine John R. Logan Madison Brown University Neil Fligstein Chris Tilly University of California- Loren Lutzenhiser University of Massachusetts- Berkeley Portland State University Lowell Joshua Gamson David J. Maume Tekle Woldemikael University of San Francisco University of Cincinnati Chapman University CONTENTS vii Editors’ Note Pioneer Public Sociologist C. Wright Mills, 50 Years Later C. Wright Mills 50 Years Later 547 G. William Domhoff Mills’s The Power Elite 50 Years Later Review Essays on Gerhard Lenski’s Ecological-Evolutionary Theory: Principles and Applications 551 Stephen K. Sanderson Gerhard Lenski and the Evolutionists 553 Randall Collins The Evolution of Inequality 556 Thomas D. Hall Grand Evolutionary Theory Is Alive and Kicking! Review Essays 559 Nancy Reichman Portraits of the Profession: Two Studies of the Context of Legal Practice Urban Lawyers: The New Social Structure of the Bar, by John P. Heinz, Robert L. Nelson, Rebecca L. Sandefur, and Edward O. Laumann The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make: Structure and Agency in Legal Practice, edited by Austin Sarat and Stuart A. Scheingold 562 Shawn D. Bushway The Problem of Prisoner (Re)Entry When Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry, by Joan Petersilia But They All Come Back: Facing the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry, by Jeremy Travis Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America, edited by Jeremy Travis and Christy Visher REVIEWS Author and Title Reviewer Inequalities 566 Stefan Svallfors, ed. Analyzing Inequality: Life Chances and Social Mobility in Comparative Perspective David Brady 567 John Macnicol Age Discrimination: An Historical and Contemporary Analysis Sheldon Steinhauser 568 Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa Sarah A. Burgard 570 Glenn Loury, Tariq Modood, and Steven Teles, eds. Ethnicity, Social Mobility, and Public Policy: Comparing the US and UK Miri Song Author and Title Reviewer 571 Gail Garfield Knowing What We Know: African American Women’s Experiences of Violence and Violation Mary Thierry Texeira Intimate Relationships, Family, and Life Course 572 Renny Golden War on the Family: Mothers in Prison and the Families They Leave Behind Dana Britton and Andrea Boyles 574 Margaret K. Nelson The Social Economy of Single Motherhood: Raising Children in Rural America Daniel T. Lichter 575 Rebecca F. Plante Sexualities in Context: A Social Perspective Betsy Lucal 577 Linda McKie and Sarah Cunningham-Burley, eds. Families in Society: Boundaries and Relationships R. Kelly Raley 578 Kathleen E. Hull Same-Sex Marriage: The Cultural Politics of Love and Law Kimberly D. Richman 579 Sarane Spence Boocock and Kimberly Ann Scott Kids in Context: The Sociological Study of Children and Childhoods Sara Schoonmaker 581 Steven M. Tipton and John Witte, Jr., eds. Family Transformed: Religion, Values, and Society in American Life William H. Swatos, Jr. Work, Organizations, and Markets 582 Michael Indergaard Silicon Alley: The Rise and Fall of a New Media District Amanda K. Damarin 584 Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello The New Spirit of Capitalism Neil Fligstein 585 Melvin L. Kohn Change and Stability: A Cross-National Analysis of Social Structure and Personality William Form 586 Michael Perelman Manufacturing Discontent: The Trap of Individualism in Corporate Society George Ritzer Cognitions, Emotions, and Identities 588 Carrie Yang Costello Professional Identity Crisis: Race, Class, Gender, and Success at Professional Schools Wendy Leo Moore 589 Jamie L. Mullaney Everyone Is NOT Doing It: Abstinence and Personal Identity Kristin Park Author and Title Reviewer Ideology and Cultural Production 591 John L. Jackson, Jr. Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity Ingrid Banks 592 Metta Spencer Two Aspirins and a Comedy: How Television Can Enhance Health and Society Beth Montemurro 593 Victoria D. Alexander and Marilyn Rueschemeyer Art and the State: The Visual Arts in Comparative Perspective Steven J. Tepper 595 Joel Perlmann Italians Then, Mexicans Now: Immigrant Origins and Second-Generation Progress, 1890 to 2000 Zulema Valdez Population, Communities, and the Environment 596 Rachel G. Bratt, Michael E. Stone, and Chester Hartman, eds. A Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda Anne B. Shlay 598 Richard Lloyd Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City Sharon Zukin Politics and the State 599 David Yamane The Catholic Church in State Politics: Negotiating Prophetic Demands and Political Realities Timothy A. Byrnes 600 John Torpey Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics Stanley Cohen 602 Anne Holohan Networks of Democracy: Lessons from Kosovo for Afghanistan, Iraq, and Beyond Xavier de Souza Briggs 603 Alana Lentin Racism and Anti-Racism in Europe Youlanda M. Gibbons 605 Carol A. Horton Race and the Making of American Liberalism Alan Gibson 606 Loïc Wacquant, ed. Pierre Bourdieu and Democratic Politics: The Mystery of Ministry Robert W. Hefner 608 Cecilia Menjívar and Néstor Rodríguez, eds. When States Kill: Latin America, the U.S. and Technologies of Terror Ester E. Hernandez 609 Ruud Koopmans, Paul Statham, Marco Giugni, and Florence Passy Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Europe John Torpey Author and Title Reviewer Social Control, Deviance, and Law 611 Robert Jackall Wild Cowboys: Urban Marauders and the Forces of Order Patrick J. Carr 612 Robert H. Tillman and Michael L. Indergaard Pump and Dump: The Rancid Rules of the New Economy Peter Grabosky 613 Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovic Fallen Blue Knights: Controlling Police Corruption David Klinger 614 John Braithwaite Markets in Vice, Markets in Virtue Bill Martin Social Movements 616 Jan Nederveen Pieterse Globalization or Empire? Agnes I. Caldwell 616 T.V. Reed The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle William F. Danaher 617 Frank Kusch Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention John D. McCarthy 619 David N. Pellow and Robert J. Brulle, eds. Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement Angela G. Mertig Health, Illness, and Medicine 620 Kristin K. Barker The Fibromyalgia Story: Medical Authority & Women’s Worlds of Pain Emma Whelan 622 Hayley A. Hamilton Health and Behavior among Immigrant Youth Grace Yoo Theory, Epistemology, and Methodology 623 Kenneth A. Bollen and Patrick J. Curran Latent Curve Models: A Structural Equation Perspective Patrick M. Horan 625 Richard F. Hamilton Marxism, Revisionism, and Leninism: Explication, Assessment, and Commentary Alan Spector 626 Bruno Gullì Labor of Fire: The Ontology of Labor between Economy and Culture Amy E. Wendling 627 R. Keith Sawyer Social Emergence: Societies as Complex Systems Joseph M. Whitmeyer Author and Title Reviewer Global Dynamics and Social Change 629 Richard P. Appelbaum and William I. Robinson, eds. Critical Globalization Studies Andrew K. Jorgenson 630 Donaldo Macedo and Panayota Gounari, eds. The Globalization of Racism Ian Law 631 Daniel Levy, Max Pensky, and John Torpey, eds. Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe: Transatlantic Relations After the Iraq War Mark A. Pollack 633 Maria Kousis and Charles Tilly, eds. Economic and Political Contention in Comparative Perspective Guillermo Trejo Education 634 David L. Brunsma, eds. Uniforms in Public Schools: A Decade of Research and Debate Anthony Troy Adams 636 Robert Ketner Ream Uprooting Children: Mobility, Social Capital, and Mexican-American Underachievement Roslyn Arlin Mickelson and Stephanie Potochnick TAKE NOTE 638 COMMENTS 644
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