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Publication year - 1996
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.1996.tb00218.x
Subject(s) - sociology , context (archaeology) , politics , state (computer science) , capitalism , racism , poverty , art history , media studies , economic history , law , gender studies , political science , history , archaeology , algorithm , computer science
Book reviewed in this article: Rationality and Nature: A Sociological Inquiry into a Changing Relationship , by Raymond Murphy. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994, 295 pages. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $21.95. Is Capitalism Sustainable? Political Economy and the Politics of Ecology , edited by Martin O'Connor. New York: Guilford, 1994,283 pages. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95. Cultivating Crisis: The Human Cost of Pesticides in Latin America , by Douglas L. Murray. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994, 208 pages. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $17.95. The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty , by Jill Quadagno. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, 254 pages. Cloth, $24.00. Editors as Gatekeepers: Getting Published in the Social Sciences , edited by Rita J. Simon and James J. Fyfe. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1994, 275 pages. Cloth, $53.50; paper $22.95. Sexual Salvation: Affirming Women's Sexual Rights and Pleasures , by Naomi B. McCormick. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994, 284 pages, $16.95. Militancy, Market Dynamics, and Workplace Authority: The Struggles over Labor Process Outcomes in the U.S. Automobile Industry , 1946–1973, by James R. Zetka Jr. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994, 292 pages. Cloth, $18.95. Sociology and Visual Representation , by Elizabeth Chaplin. London and New York: Routledge, 1994, 304 pages. Paper, $19.95. Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth Century , by Diane E. Davis. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994, 391 pages. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $24.95. Appalachia in an International Context: Cross‐National Comparisons of Developing Regions , edited by Phillip J. Obermiller and William W. Philliber. Westport, CT, and London: Praeger, 1994, 256 pages. Cloth, $55.00. Law in the Sociological Enterprise: A Reconstruction , by Lisa J. McIntyre. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994, 240 pages. Cloth, $52.50; paper, $16.95. Against All Odds: Rural Community in the Information Age , by John C. Allen and Don A. Dillman. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994, 238 pages. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95. Fundamental Feminism: Contesting the Core Concepts of Feminist Theory , by Judith Grant. New York: Routledge, 1993, 226 pages. Cloth $52.50; paper, $16.95. The Rise and Fall of Catholic Religious Orders: A Social Movement Perspective , by Patricia Wittberg, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994, 423 pages. Cloth, $74.50; paper, $24.95. White Racism: The Basics , by Joe R. Feagin and Hernan Vera. New York: Routledge, 1995, 230 pages. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $16.95.