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Reviews the book "Migration: Sociological Studies 2," edited by J.A. Jackson.

Reviews the book "The Affluent Worker: Political Attitudes and Behaviour," by John H. Goldthorpe.

Reviews the book "Armed Forces and Society," edited by J. Van Doorn.

Reviews the book "Methods of Organisational Research," edited by V.H. Vroom.

Reviews the book "Social Structure and Mobility in Economic Development," edited by Neil J. Smelser and Seymour Martin Lipset.

Reviews three books on sociology. "Emerging Techniques in Population Research"; "Differential Fertility in Central India," by E.D. Driver; "Our Crowded Planet; Essays on the Pressure of Population," edited by Fairfield Osborn.

Reviews the book "Nature and Extent of Social Change in India."

Reviews the books "Society and Adjustment to Old Age," by Faina Jyrkila and "Too Old to Work, Too Young to Retire. A Case Study of Permanent Plant Shutdown."

Reviews the book "Political Power and Social Theory," by Barrington Moore.

Reviews the book "Men and Their Work," by Everett C. Hughes.

Reviews the book "The Challenge of Development," by A. Bonne.

Reviews three books on population. "Backgrounds of Human Fertility in Puerto Rico: A Sociological Survey," by Paul K. Hatt; "Approaches to Problems of High Fertility in Agrarian Societies: Papers Presented at the 1951 Annual Conference of the Milbank Memorial Fund"; "Théorie générale de la population: Economie et Population," vol. 1.

Reviews the book "Living in Towns: Selected Research Papers in Urban Sociology of the Faculty of Commerce and Social Science, University of Birmingham," edited by Leo Kuper.

Reviews the book "Propaganda in War and Crisis," edited by Daniel Lemer.

Reviews the book "The Politics of Field Research: Sociology Beyong Enlightenment," edited by Jaber F. Gubrium and David Silverman.

Reviews the book "Victims of Crime--A New Deal?," edited by M. Maguire and J. Pointing.

Reviews the book "Sociometric Research," vol. 1 and 2, edited by William E. Saris and Irmtraud N. Gallofer.

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 "Rapid Population Growth: Consequences and Policy Implications."

Reviews the book "Studies in Social Interaction," edited by D. Sudnow.

Reviews the book "West Indian Children in London," by Katrin FitzHerbert.

Reviews the book "Japanese Culture: Its Development and Characteristics," by R. J. Smith and R. K. Beardsley.

The article reviews the book "Scripta Hierosolymitana," edited by Roberto Bachi.

The article reviews the book "The Impact of Change," by the Acton Society Trust.

Reviews the book "Bulletin of the World Health Organization," vol. 2.

Reviews the book "Domestic Food Consumption and Expenditure."

Reviews the book "Political Anthropology," by Marc J. Swartz, Victor W. Turner and Arthur Tuden.

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 "Methods of Life Course Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches," edited by Janet Z. Giele and Glen H. Elder.

Reviews the book "Religion, Modernity and Postmodernity," edited by Pal Heelas.

Reviews the book "Gender, Equality and Welfare States," by Diane Sainsbury.

Reviews the book "Of Rule and Revenue," by Margaret Levi.

Reviews the book "Ideas About Illness: An Intellectual and Political History of Medical Sociology," by Uta Gerhardt.

Reviews the book "Privatisation and the Penal System: The American Experience and the Debate in Britain," by Mick Ryan and Tony Ward.

Reviews the book "The State and Instability in the South," edited by Caroline Thomas and Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu.

Reviews the book "Development of Class Structure in Eastern Europe: Poland and Her Southern Neighbours, by Aleksander Gella.

Reviews the book "State, Capital and Labour: Changing Patterns of Power and Dependence," by Gill Ursell and Paul Blyton.

Reviews the book "Democracy and the Welfare State," edited by Amy Gutmann.

Reviews the book "Sociometric Research, Vol. 1. Data Collection and Scaling: Vol. 2. Data Analysis," edited by Willem E. Saris and Irmtraud N. Gallofer.

Reviews several books on sociology. "Society," by David Frisby and Derek Sayer; "The Ethnomethodologists," by Wes Sharrock and Bob Anderson; "Beliefs and Ideology," by Kenneth Thompson; "Equality," by Bryan S. Turner.

Reviews the book "Sexuality," by Jeffrey Weekes.

Reviews the book "Capitalism and Social Democracy," by Adam Przeworski.

Reviews two books on sociology. "Marital Violence," edited by Norman Johnson; "The Family, Politics and Social Theory," by D. H. J. Morgan.

The article reviews the book "Contemporary Research in the Sociology of Education," edited by John Eggleston.

The article reviews the book "Social Psychology for Sociologists," edited by David Field.

Reviews the book "Knowledge, Education and Cultural Change," by edited by Richard Brown.

Reviews the book "Sociology and the Demystification of the Modern World," by John Rex.

Reviews the book "Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter," by Talal Asad.

Reviews the book "Making People Pay," by Paul Rock.