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Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
sociological inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.446
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1475-682X
pISSN - 0038-0245
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-682x.1990.tb00139.x
Subject(s) - sociology , state (computer science) , prison , art history , media studies , criminology , art , computer science , algorithm
Book reviewed in this article: Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography . John Van Maanen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988, 173 pages, $25.00 hardback, $7.95 paper. Professional Powers: A Study of the Institutionalization of Formal Knowledge . Eliot Freidson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988, 241 pages, $12.95 paperback. Local Heroes: The Rebirth of Heroism in America . Bill Berkowitz. Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath and Company, 1987, 350 pages, $17.95 hardback. Moral Theory and Capital Punishment . Tom Sorell. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988, 172 pages, paperback. Working but Poor: America's Contradiction . Sar A. Levitan and Isaac Shapiro. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987, 142 pages. Social Control of the Drinking Driver . Michael D. Laurence, John R. Snortum, and Franklin E. Zimring, editors. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988, 452 pages, softback. The Faces of Homlessness . Marjorie Hope and James Young. Lexington: D. C. Heath and Company, 1986, 318 pages, paperback. Ultimate Penalties: Capital Punishment, Life Imprisonment, Physical Torture . Leon Shaskolsky Sheleff. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 1987, xi + 492 pages, $27.50.