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The article reviews the book "Paper Route: Finding My Way to Precision Journalism," by Philip Meyer.

The article reviews the book "Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity," by Tomás R. Jiménez.

The article reviews the book "U.S. Labor Law and the Future of Labor-Management Cooperation."

The article reviews the book "Who's Watching?: Daily Practices of Surveillance Among Contemporary Families," edited by Margaret K. Nelson and Anita Ilta Garey with contributions by Holly Blackford, Rosanna Hertz, Kevin Roy, Linda M. Burton, Donna Kurz, Barbara K. Hofer and William K. Staples.

The article reviews the book "High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families," by Peter Gosselin.

The article reviews the book "Producing Success: The Culture of Personal Advancement in an American High School," by Peter Demerath.

The article reviews the book "Saving America's High Schools," edited by Becky A. Smerdon and Kathryn M. Borman.

The article reviews the book "The Insecure American: How We Got Here and What We Should Do About It," edited by Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman.

The article reviews the book "Pinoy Capital: The Filipino Nation in Daly City," by Benito M. Vergara Jr.

The article reviews the book "America at Risk: The Crisis of Hope, Trust and Caring," by Robert Perrucci and Carolyn C. Perrucci.

The article reviews the book "The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941-1972," by Anthony S. Chen.

The article reviews the book "Across Generations: Immigrant Families in America," edited by Nancy Foner.

The article reviews the book "Breaks in the Chain: What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America about Democracy," by Paul Apostolidis.

The article reviews the book "A Shameful Business: The Case for Human Rights in the American Workplace," by James A. Gross.

The article reviews the book "Women's Studies on the Edge," by Joan Wallach Scott.

The article reviews the book "Embedded with Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home," by Steve Early.

The article reviews the book "The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities," by Frank Donoghue.

The article reviews the book "Clandestine Crossings: Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border," by David Spener.

The article reviews the book "Diagnoses, Therapy and Evidence: Conundrums in Modern American Medicine," by Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz.

The article reviews the book "Latino Lives in America: Making It Home," by Luis Ricardo Fraga, John A. Garcia, Rodney E. Hero, Michael Jones-Correa, Valerie Martinez-Ebers and Gary M. Segura.

The article reviews the book "Remaking Citizenship: Latina Immigrants and New American Politics," by Kathleen M. Coll.

The article reviews the book "Little Saigons: Staying Vietnamese in America," by Karin Aguilar-San Juan.

The article reviews the book "Dangerous Exits: Escaping Abusive Relationships in Rural America," by Walter S. DeKeseredy and Martin D. Schwartz.

The article reviews the book "Late Edition: A Love Story," by Bob Greene.

This article reviews the book "The Future of Pensions in the United States," edited by Ray Schmitt.

An ongoing experimental seminar at the University of Connecticut, designed to help prepare graduate students for teaching undergraduate sociology, is discussed. file believe that undergraduate education is best fostered in small classes with enrollments of 25-35, and we try to encourage our graduate students to see the overriding value of such a classroom setting The two features highlighted herein emphasize the small class approach: observation of faculty and graduate student classroom teaching, and the preparation and grading of examination. Our experience with the seminar has been positive, despite logistical and other difficulties described in the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a paper to be discussed at the meeting of the American Sociological Society that will be held on September 3, 1959 in Chicago, Illinois. The paper is designed less as a report on the history and the present state of the profession of sociology, than as a vehicle for raising questions about the problems facing the profession. The article mainly focuses on problems, not only those that may be acted upon collectively by the organized profession, but also those which each sociologist may face as a member of a college or university department and in various types of nonacademic employment. The paper conceives a profession to be a category of occupational role that is organized about the mastery of and fiduciary responsibility for any important segment of a society's cultural tradition, including responsibility for its perpetuation and for its further development. In addition, a profession may have responsibility for the application of its knowledge in practical situations. Roles are organized into collectivities. Professional roles are organized into two main kinds of collectivity including those in which the professional functions themselves and professional associations.

Reviews the book "Trade Unionism in the United States: A Symposium in Honor of Jack Barbash," edited by James L. Stern and Barbara D. Dennis.

Reviews the book "Population Growth in Latin America and U.S. National Security," edited by John Saunders.

The present editor was appointed in late September, 1951. All papers from the annual meeting of 1951 except the presidential address and papers submitted in advance to the previous editor, were turned over to the new editor, and all manuscripts received after that time in New Haven were forwarded. The first issue for which the present editor was responsible was the issue of February, 1952. No major problems have arisen during the past year. Each issue has come out on time, and the quality of the articles and book reviews appears to have been satisfactory judging from the lack of complaints reaching the editor. Because of a sharp increase in printing costs it has been difficult to stay within estimated costs. Some issues have exceeded the allowance because of the inexperience of the editor who did not realize the amount of extra charges for tabular and mathematical printing.

Reviews the book "Undocumented Mexicans in the United States," by David M. Heer.

Reviews the book "The Metropolitan Enigma: Inquiries Into the Nature and Dimensions of America's Urban Crisis," edited by James Q. Wilson.

Reviews the book "Values and Ideals of American Youth," edited by Eli Ginzberg.

Reviews the book "Social History of American Agriculture," by Joseph Schafer.

The article reviews the book "Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America," by Erika Lee and Judy Yung.

The article reviews the book "The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence," by T. H. Green.

Reviews books on the physical and social reorganization of American cities and towns. Residential focus of urban history; `Life Between Buildings,' by Jan Gehl; `City: Rediscovering the Center,' by William H. Whyte; `The Great Good Place,' by Ray Oldenburg; More.

Reviews books on the settlement house movement in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Includes `One Hundred Years at Hull-House,' by Mary Linn McCree Bryan and Allen F. Davis; `Settlement Folk: Social Thought and the American Settlement Movement, 1885-1930,' by Mina Carson; `Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School 1892-1918,' by Mary Jo Deegan.