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Since the 1999 emergence of West Nile virus (WNV) in North America, >43,000 cases of disease and 1,884 deaths have been reported (1); overall infections are estimated at [approximately equal [...]

Bhutan's isolation, enforced by its government, has conserved its architectural heritage. Despite this, Western technology is beginning to appear and may threaten its continuity. Bhutan's remarkable indigenous architecture has clear [...]

Writing in the sociologies of knowledge and science makes it clear that scientists construct their interpretations of reality as part of social groups and social networks. That is, scientists do not react solely to the research problem at hand or to widely diffused scientific norms. This view leads to the hypothesis that, in Canadian sociology, authors will cite others' studies as a function of the geographical location of their universities and resulting social contacts, emphasizing the latter. Analyses are conducted for citations in Brym and Fox's From Culture to Power and Stebbins' Sociology. Results show that references in From Culture to Power underrepresent scholars in the West and overrepresent scholars from Core universities in Ontario, while Stebbins' book gives greater attention to works from the Prairies and the West.

Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 2002, xii + 286 p. Reginald W. Bibby has published his third major inquest into the state of religion in Canada. The first was published in 1987 [...]

Responds to criticisms of "Reading, Writing and Riches." Treats the following topics: the interrelationship between knowledge, science, and ideology; the multiplicity of paradigms within sociology; the continuing debate between idealists and materialists; the dimensions of socioeconomic class and power; and the use of the comparative method by sociologists. (DMM)

DAVID SCHEFFEL, In the Shadow of Antichrist: The Old Believers of Alberta. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press Limited, 1991, pp. xvii + 252 As the 'foreword' by David J. Goa indicates, [...]

The rest of this article is substantially an elaboration of these points with the aim of demonstrating that the Anglican Communion is no longer suitable for classification as an 'ecclesia'. A more general methodological purpose is to remind sociologists of religion that the typological method is an exercise in historical sociology, and evolution of entities is even a more salient consideration in sociology than in biology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]