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This article lists several books related to sociology that appeared in the December 1986 issue of "Canadian Journal of Sociology."

The article reviews the book "Cairo Papers in Social Science, 31(3-4): Visual Productions of Knowledge: Towards a Different Middle East" edited by Hanan Sabea and Mark R. Westmoreland.

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."

The article reviews the book "Sosyal Bilimlerde Süreli Yayıncılık-2006: 1. Ulusat Kurultay Bildirileri. Ankara Kasım 2006 TÜBİTAK Ankara/On Publishing Periodicals in Social Sciences-2006: First National Meeting Papers," by Kasim Karakutuk.

The article reviews the book "A Quantitative Tour of the Social Sciences," edited by Andrew Gelman and Jeronimo Cortina.

Reviews the book "A System of Social Science: Papers Relating to Adam Smith," 2nd ed., by Andrew Stewart Skinner.

Reviews the book "The Sociology of Work: Papers in Honour of Oswald Hall," edited by Audrey Wipper.

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

The article reviews the book "Statistical Models and Causal Inference: A Dialogue With the Social Sciences," by David Freedman, edited by David Collier, Jasjeet Sekhon and Philip Stark.

The article reviews the book "Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History," by Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett.

The article reviews the book "Doing Social Science: Evidence and Methods in Empirical Research," edited by Fiona Devine and Sue Heath, with contributions by Graeme Kirkpatrick, Dale Southerton, Wendy Bottero, Paul Sweetman and Christian Greiffenhagen.

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

The article reviews the book "Risks & Social Inequities in Romania," by Marian Preda.

The article reviews the book "Critical Realism and the Social Sciences: Heterodox Elaborations," edited by John Frauley and Frank Pearce.

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

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

Reviews the book "New Approaches to Economic Life," edited by Brian Roberts, Ruth Finnegan and Duncan GalIie.

Reviews the book "The Social Engagement of Social Science: A Travistock Anthology," vol. "The Socio-Psychological Perspective," edited by E. Trist and H. Murray.

Reviews the book "Social Science and Health in Canada," edited by Merrijoy Kelner and Peter Kong-Ming New.

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

The article presents information on the book "Writing the Social Text: Poetics and Politics in Social Science Discourse," edited by Richard Harvey Brown. This is a fascinating, provoking, perhaps sometimes banal, but also sometimes thrilling collection. Brown's own books have worked toward a poetics and rhetoric of sociology and society, yet in their own tenor remain naturally enough in the tradition of the single extended thesis, carefully argued, self-knowing, with right humility but full of understanding. The present collection is disparate. It arose out of two conferences at the University of Maryland, yet the original programmes of those conferences show that only a handful of their speakers contribute to this collection. There is nothing wrong with that, but the collection itself presumably results from the activity those conferences bestirred, or that they stemmed from. Unification, especially as that gets institutionalized and thus wields power, is exactly what this collection wants to contest.

Rethinking the Individualism-Holism Debate edited by Julie Zahle and Finn Collin is reviewed. Each of the contributions contained in the volume is summarized. The review concludes by assessing the volume’s usefulness for bringing clarity into the debate in the light of the editors’ self-set goal of rethinking the individualism-holism debate as one of the more important yet confused debates in philosophy of the social sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Editor's Note: Guidelines for Selecting Books to Review Occasionally, we receive questions regarding the selection of books reviewed in the Journal of Economic Literature. A statement of our guidelines for book selection might therefore be useful. The general purpose of our book reviews is to help keep members of the American Economic Association informed of significant English-language publications in economics research. We also review significant books in related social sciences that might be of special interest to economists. On occasion, we review books that are written for the public at large if these books speak to issues that are of interest to economists. Finally, we review some reports or publications that have significant policy impact. Annotations are published for all books received. However, we receive many more books than we are able to review so choices must be made in selecting books for review. We try to identify for review scholarly, well-researched books that embody serious and original research on a particular topic. We do not review textbooks. Other things being equal, we avoid volumes of collected papers such as festschriften and conference volumes. Often such volumes pose difficult problems for the reviewer who may find herself having to describe and evaluate many different contributions. Among such volumes, we prefer those on a single, well-defined theme that a typical reviewer may develop in his review. We avoid volumes that collect previously published papers unless there is some material value added from bringing the papers together. Also, we refrain from reviewing second or revised editions unless the revisions of the original edition are really substantial. Our policy is not to accept offers to review (and unsolicited reviews of) particular books. Coauthorship of reviews is not forbidden but it is unusual and we ask our invited reviewers to discuss with us first any changes in the authorship or assigned length of a review. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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

Reviews the book "Social Theory Today," edited by Anthony Giddens and Jonathan Turner.

Reviews the book "Mathematical Social Sciences," vol. 1.

Reviews the book "Handbook of Social Science of Sport," by Günther R.F. Luschen and George H. Sage.

Reviews the book "Theory Construction and Data Analysis in the Behavioral Sciences ," edited by Samuel Shye.

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

Reviews the book "Surveying Social Life: Papers in Honor of Herbert H. Hyman,' by Hubert J. O'Gorman.

The article reviews the book "Who Counts? The Power of Participatory Statistics," edited by Jeremy Holland.

The article reviews the book "ALA Guide to Sociology and Psychology Reference."

A review of the book "The Life Course Reader: Individuals and Societies Across Time," edited by Walter R. Heinz, Johannes Huinink, and Ansgar Weymann is presented.

The article reviews the book "Definitions of Disability in Social Sciences: Methodological Perspectives," by Lars Grönvik.

Reviews the book "Structures of Knowing," edited by Richard C. Monk.