Search

A review of the book "Selected Papers," by Partha Dasgupta is presented in two volumes, volume 1: "Institutions, Innovations and Human Values," and volume 2: "Poverty, Population, and Natural Resources."

Reviews the book "A System of Social Science: Papers Relating to Adam Smith," by Andrew S. Skinner.

The article reviews the book "For a Significant Social Psychology: The Collected Writings of M. Brewster Smith," by M. Brewster Smith.

Reviews the book "Ireland North and South: Perspectives From Social Science," edited by Anthony F. Heath, Richard Breen and Christopher T. Whelan.

Book reviewed: Mark Granovetter and Richard Swedberg, The Sociology of Economic Life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "The Relevance of Social Science for Medicine," edited by L. Eisenberg and A. Kleinman.

The article presents a review of the book "Beyond Method: Strategies for Social Research," edited by Gareth Morgan.

Reviews the book "Biographies of Scientific Objects," edited by Lorraine Daston.

Reviews the book "Understanding Global Cultures: Metaphorical Journeys Through 17 Countries," by Martin J. Gannon.

Reviews the book 'Applications of the Expansion Method,' edited by John Paul Jones III and Emilio Casetti.

Reviews the book 'A System of Social Science: Papers Relating to Adam Smith,' by Andrew Skinner.

The article presents a review essay on the book "Talcott Parsons on National Socialism," edited by Uta Gerhardt. Parsons' essays in the book are full of insights into the sociological aspects of fascist movements, the social structure of both pre-Nazi and Nazi Germany, propaganda and social control and memoranda for political and military intervention. Beyond sociologist Max Weber, a deep impact that psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud made on him can be seen in his essays. His use of psychoanalytical concepts predates the psychohistorical approach 20-30 years later and is reminiscent of sociologists Erich Fromm and Wilhelm Reich. His April 25, 1942 presidential address before the Eastern Sociological Society thoughtfully but turgidly makes theoretical connections between structural and psychological levels of society and variables of class, tradition and social access as important consequences of both. Parsons even touched on the issue of 'evil.' He was ahead of his time with regard to feminism. It was true that Parsons wrote in somewhat of a vacuum. He and the world were unaware of the full implications of evil during the Holocaust, that is, of the Final Solution. But he tried. He merits our intellectual and moral respect for that.

Reviews the book "Explorations in General Theory in Social Science: Essays in Honor of Talcott Parsons," edited by Jan L. Loubser, Rainer C. Baum, Andrew Effrat and Victor Meyer Lidz.

Any collection of papers purporting to set out new directions for a discipline, like sociology, whose fundamental orientations are humanist, might reasonably be expected to contain within it items that may themselves be collected into one of two principal categories. The first is of work that brings radically into question existing ontological and, hence, epistemological bases of the discipline; the second, of work that, developing from a fundamental, though not an unquestioning, acceptance of those bases, seeks to modify them in the light of its experiential practice in their terms. Work of both kinds requires the courage and rigour of a strong and serious commitment to sustain sociology as a discipline through questioning thoughtfully its basic tenets in relation to the lived, social experience both of those who conduct it and of those whose conduct is its topic. Work in the second category can be too easily confused, however, with that of a third—the scholarship of the disciplinary cartographer, whose work is the recording and reporting upon the work of others in his field. Such work informs those in search of the new of the names and appearances of the epistemological territories that they are leaving behind, and of the conceptual topography of some of the issues they may expect to have to negotiate during their journey. As such, and if it is thorough, it can be valuable. But it is too often an indication of unreflective neophilia amongst sociologists than of new directions in sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Thinking Social Science in India, Essays in Honour of Alice Thorner," edited by Sujata Patel, Josodhara Bagchi and Krishna Raj.

The article reviews the book "A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science, and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century," by Ann Oakley.

Reviews the book "Planting Trees in the Developing World: A Sociology of International Organizations," by Steven R. Brechin.

Reviews the book "Sociology in the Professions," by Brian Heraud.

Reviews the book "Changing Perspectives in the History of Science: Essays in Honour of Joseph Needham," edited by Mikul´sˆ Teich and Robert Young.

The article reviews the book "The Development of Sociology in the Soviet Union," by Elizabeth Ann Weinberg.

Reviews the book 'Measurement in the Social Sciences,' by R.A. Zeller and E.G. Carmines.

The article reviews the book "Modern Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Practical Introduction," by Rand Wilcox.

This article reviews the book "Theory Construction and Model-Building Skills: A Practical Guide for Social Scientists," by James Jaccard and Jacob Jacoby.

This article reviews the book "The Social Sciences and Theories of Race," by Vernon J. Williams.

This article reviews the book "Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment," by João Biehl.

Reviews the book "Intelectuales y Expertos: La Constitución del Conocimiento Social en la Argentina," edited by Federico Neiburg and Mariano Plotkin.

Reviews the book 'Schools of Thought: Twenty-Five Years of Interpretive Social Science,' edited by Joan Scott and Debra Keates.

Reviews the book "Timing Global Cities," edited by S.G.E. Gravesteijn, S. van Griensven and M.C. de Smidt.

Reviews the book "Relativism and the Social Sciences," by Ernest Gellner.

Reviews the book "Sociological Interpretations of Education: Social Analysis Series in the Social Sciences," by David Blackledge and Barry Hunt.

Reviews the book "Religion in the Nineties: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science," vol. 527, edited by Wade Clark.

The article reviews the book "Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond," by Douglas Kellner.

Reviews the book "Structural Equation Models in the Social Sciences," by edited by Arthur S. Goldberger and Otis Dudley Duncan.

The article reviews the book "Evidence-Based Healthcare in Context: Critical Social Science Perspectives," edited by A. Broom and J. Adams.

The article reviews several electronic booklets from the "Information Concepts, Retrieval and Services" series, edited by Gary Marchionini, including "Information Concepts: From Books to Cyberspace Identities," by Gary Marchionini, "Information Architecture: The Design and Integration of Information Spaces," by Wei Ding and Xia Lin and "XML Retrieval," by Mounia Lalmas.

The article reviews the book "Introduction to Applied Bayesian Statistics and Estimation for Social Scientists," by S. M. Lynch.

The article reviews the book "Rude Britannia," edited by Mina Gorji.

Reviews the book 'Sustainabilty and the Social Sciences: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Integrating Environmental Considerations Into Theoretical Reorientation,' edited by Egon Becker and Thomas Jahn.

Reviews the book, "Insight and Social Betterment: A Preface to Applied Social Science," by James B. Rule.

Books reviewed in this article:All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, by Stephen KinzerChain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib, by Seymour M. HershInside the Mirage: America's Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia, by Thomas W. LippmanBreaking Ranks, by Ronit Chacham, edThe Palestinian People, A History, by Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. MigdalSyria and the Palestinians: The Clash of Nationalisms, by Ghada Hashem TalhamiThe Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain, by María Rosa Menocal, foreword by Harold BloomThe Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization, by Richard W. Bulliet [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews articles featured in various psychology journals. Themes of the studies; Names of authors; Quality of discourse.

Reviews the book "The Scientific Study of Society," by Max Steuer.

Reviews the book "The Scientific Study of Society," by Max Steuer.

The article reviews two essays on sociological theory, "Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory," edited by Peter Hedstrom and Richard Swedberg and "Fuzzy-Set Social Science" by Charles C. Ragin. Correlation analysis is the basis for much explanation in contemporary sociology. Mainstream sociologists often infer causation through the use of quantitative techniques that depend, in a way or another, on the existence of bivariate correlations. Even sophisticated multivariate statistical methods that allow for the parceling of variables and the estimation of average net causal effects ultimately rely on such correlations. Correlation analysis so is central to explanation that many sociologists simply take it for granted, assuming that the existence of a correlation is a basic component of causality. Correlation analysis is by itself an inadequate mode of causal assessment. Problems identified are not simply familiar themes such as a correlation fails to represent causation because it might be spurious or because the time order of correlated variables may not be clear.