Book Reviews: Public Accountability and the Schooling System: A Sociology of School Board Democracy, the Alternative in Eastern Europe, Bürokratischer Sozialismus: Eine Analyse des sowjetischen Herrschaftssystems, a Sociology of Industrialisation: An Introduction, Farm Life in Northeast Scotland, 1840–1914: The Poor Man's Country by Ian Carter, Computer Models in the Social Sciences, Deviant Interpretations, Poverty and Social Change, Main Currents of Marxism, Class and Status in France: Economic Change and Social Immobility 1945–1975, Ideology and the Labour Movement, Property, Paternalism and Power: Class and Control in Rural England, the Making of Symbolic Interactionism, Land, Labour and Economic Discourse