Contemporary Sociology A JOURNAL OF REVIEWS March 2010 • Volume 39 • Number 2 American Sociological Association Cover.indd 1 03/03/2010 6:27:35 PM A JOURNAL OF REVIEWS March 2010 – Volume 39 – Number 2 EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR ASSISTANT EDITORS Alan Sica Anne Sica Kathryn Densberger Richard M. Simon Pennsylvania State University EDITORIAL BOARD Jimi Adesina Eric Fassin Ann Morning Rhodes University École Normale Supérieure New York University South Africa France Andrew Noymer Paul Amato Eva Fodor University of California, Pennsylvania State University Central European University Irvine Hungary Robert Antonio Jennifer Pierce University of Kansas Joan H. Fujimura University of Minnesota University of Wisconsin Karen Barkey Harland Prechel Columbia University Joe Gerteis Texas A&M University University of Minnesota Sharon Bird Wendy Simonds Iowa State University Janice Irvine Georgia State University Victoria Bonnell University of Massachusetts, Amherst Neil Smelser University of California, University of California, Berkeley Devorah Kalekin-Fishman Berkeley University of Haifa Rose Brewer Israel Nico Stehr University of Minnesota Caglar Keyder Zeppelin University Craig Calhoun Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Germany New York University Turkey Alenka Svab Bruce Carruthers Nazli Kibria University of Ljubljana Northwestern University Boston University Slovenia Donatella Della Porta Chyong-fang Ko Judith Treas European University Institute Academia Sinica University of California, Italy Taiwan Irvine Paul DiMaggio Marcello Maneri Stephen Turner Princeton University University of Milano-Bicocca University of South Florida Italy Elaine Draper Jeff Ulmer California State University, Ruth Milkman Pennsylvania State University Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles John Urry Anthony Elliott Lancaster University Flinders University Valentine Moghadam United Kingdom Australia Purdue University Yen Le Espiritu Mignon Moore University of California, University of California, San Diego Los Angeles Cover.indd 2 03/03/2010 6:27:36 PM CONTENTS A SYMPOSIUM ON FRENCH SOCIOLOGY Author Title Reviewer French Sociology After World War II 123 Philippe Masson Faire de la sociologie: Les grandes enquêtes Howard S. Becker françaises depuis 1945 Fresh Work on the History of French Empirical Sociology 126 Philippe Masson Faire de la sociologie: Les grandes enquêtes Jennifer Platt françaises depuis 1945 126 Jean Peneff Le goût de l’observation: comprendre et pratiquer l’observation participante en sciences sociales REVIEW ESSAYS Author Title Reviewer Burawoy, His Memory 129 Michael Burawoy The Extended Case Method: Four Countries, Javier Auyero Four Decades, Four Great Transformations, and One Theoretical Tradition Global Environment and Human Development 131 Kevin Watkins Human Development Report 2006. Beyond Scott Frickel Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis 131 Kevin Watkins Human Development Report 2007-2008. Fighting Climate Change: Human Solidarity in a Divided World A Chinese World System, Again? 134 Giovanni Arrighi Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of Richard Lachmann the Twenty-First Century 134 Deborah S. Davis Creating Wealth and Poverty in and Wang Feng Postsocialist China REVIEWS 139 Richard Alba, Albert J. Immigration and Religion in America: Pierrette Raboteau, and Josh Comparative and Historical Perspectives Hondagneu-Sotelo DeWind, editors Author Title Reviewer 140 Joel Andreas Rise of the Red Engineers: The Cultural Guobin Yang Revolution and the Origins of China’s New Class 141 Sarah Babb Behind the Development Banks: Michael Goldman Washington Politics, World Poverty, and the Wealth of Nations 142 Paul Bagguley and Riotous Citizens: Ethnic Conflict in Martin Bulmer Yasmin Hussain Multicultural Britain 144 Carolina Bank Muñoz Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender and Gretchen Purser Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States 145 Scott N. Brooks Black Men Can’t Shoot Douglas Hartmann 146 Lionel Cantú, Jr., edited The Sexuality of Migration: Border Héctor Carrillo by Nancy A. Naples and Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men Salvador Vidal-Ortiz 148 Eamonn Carrabine Crime, Culture and the Media Lynn S. Chancer 149 Wayne A. Cornelius, Four Generations of Norteños: New A. Gary Dworkin David Fitzgerald, and Research from the Cradle of Mexican and Charles Scott Borger, editors Migration Munnell 150 Tawnya J. Adkins Covert Media Bias?: A Comparative Study of James Landers and Philo C. Wasburn Time, Newsweek, The National Review, and The Progressive Coverage of Domestic Social Issues, 1975-2000 152 Jocelyn Elise Crowley Defiant Dads: Fathers’ Rights Activists in Martin D. Schwartz America 153 David Crystal Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 danah boyd 154 Anne-Marie Cusac Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Michael Silberman Punishment in America 156 Sarah Daynes and Desire for Race Mara Loveman Orville Lee 157 Jean Van Delinder Struggles Before Brown: Early Civil Rights Aldon Morris Protests and Their Significance Today 159 Shari L. Dworkin and Body Panic: Gender, Heath, and the Selling Natalie Boero Faye Linda Wachs of Fitness 160 Anthony Elliott Making the Cut: How Cosmetic Surgery is Ann Branaman Transforming Our Lives 162 Yuval Elmelech Transmitting Inequality: Wealth and the Edward N. Wolff American Family 163 Didier Fassin and The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Michael Barnett Richard Rechtman Condition of Victimhood 164 Andrew Gelman and A Quantitative Tour of the Social Sciences Stephen L. Morgan Jeronimo Cortina, editors 166 Jack P. Gibbs Colossal Control Failures: From Julius Robert Gramling Caesar to 9/11 167 Katherine Giuffre Collective Creativity: Art and Society in Dustin Kidd the South Pacific Author Title Reviewer 169 Joseph C. Hermanowicz Lives in Science: How Institutions Affect Diana Crane Academic Careers 170 Ethan B. Kapstein and The Fate of Young Democracies James Burk Nathan Converse 171 Diana Kendall Members Only: Elite Clubs and the Process Karyn Lacy of Exclusion 172 Maren Klawiter The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer: Changing Chris Ganchoff Cultures of Disease and Activism 174 Mire Koikari Pedagogy of Democracy: Feminism and the Barbara Molony Cold War in the U.S. Occupation of Japan 175 Timothy Kubal Cultural Movements and Collective Jennifer A. Jordan Memory: Christopher Columbus and the Rewriting of the National Origin Myth 177 Ahmet T. Kuru Secularism and State Policies Toward Roger Finke Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey 178 Gretchen Lemke- Daughters of Aquarius: Women of the Marion S. Santangelo Sixties Counterculture Goldman 179 Rich Ling and Scott W. The Reconstruction of Space and Time: Barry Wellman Campbell, editors Mobile Communication Practices 181 Dan C. Lortie School Principal: Managing in Public Peter Meiksins 183 George E. McCarthy Dreams in Exile: Rediscovering Science David Norman and Ethics in Nineteenth-Century Social Smith Theory 184 Rory McVeigh The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan: Right-Wing Stewart E. Tolnay Movements and National Politics 186 Hiromi Mizuno Science for the Empire: Scientific Masamichi Sasaki Nationalism in Modern Japan 187 Valentine M. Moghadam Globalization and Social Movements: William I. Islamism, Feminism, and the Global Justice Robinson Movement 188 Colin Ong-Dean Distinguishing Disability: Parents, Thomas M. Skrtic Privilege, and Special Education 190 Bryan D. Palmer Canada’s 1960s: The Ironies of Identity in a Mildred A. Rebellious Era Schwartz 191 Edmund D. Pellegrino, Human Dignity and Bioethics Michael S. Evans Adam Schulman, and Thomas W. Merrill, editors 193 Andrew Pickering and The Mangle in Practice: Science, Society Eric L. Hsu Keith Guzik, editors and Becoming 194 Antony J. Puddephatt, Ethnographies Revisited: Constructing Jacob Avery William Shaffir, and Theory in the Field Steven W. Kleinknecht, editors 196 Allison J. Pugh Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, Pamela J. Smock and Consumer Culture Author Title Reviewer 197 Nicholas A. Robins and Genocides by the Oppressed: Subaltern Clark McCauley Adam Jones, editors Genocide in Theory and Practice 198 Diane M. Rodgers Debugging the Link between Social Theory Ullica Segerstrale and Social Insects 200 Claude Rosental, Weaving Self-Evidence: A Sociology of Steve G. Hoffman translated by Catherine Logic Porter 201 Howard L. Rosenthal What Do We Owe Each Other?: Rights and Jane A. Grant and David J. Rothman, Obligations in Contemporary American editors Society 202 Michael Shiner Drug Use and Social Change: The Patricia A. Adler Distortion of History and Peter Adler 204 Patricia K. Smith Obesity among Poor Americans: Is Public Virginia W. Chang Assistance the Problem? 205 Cass R. Sunstein Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite Arthur L. and Divide Stinchcombe 206 André Turmel A Historical Sociology of Childhood: Barbara Heyns Developmental Thinking, Categorization and Graphic Visualization 208 Barbara Wejnert, Safe Motherhood in a Globalized World Barbara Katz Suzanne K. Steinmetz, Rothman and Nirupama Prakash, editors 209 Michel Wieviorka, Violence: A New Approach Lois Presser translated by David Macey 210 Howard Wilhite Consumption and the Transformation of Sanjoy Mazumdar Everyday Life: A View from South India 212 Bill Winders The Politics of Food Supply: U.S. Carmen Bain Agricultural Policy in the World Economy 213 Kam C. Wong Chinese Policing: History and Reform Bin Liang 215 Robert Wuthnow Boundless Faith: The Global Outreach of Mary Jo Neitz American Churches 216 Wei-Hsin Yu Gendered Trajectories: Women, Work, and Yoshinori Kamo Social Change in Japan and Taiwan 218 Min Zhou Contemporary