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Publication year - 1997
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.1997.tb00450.x
Subject(s) - politics , george (robot) , sociology , art history , white (mutation) , spectacle , media studies , history , law , political science , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
Book reviewed in this article: The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran‐Contra Hearings, by Michael Lynch and David Bogen. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996, 348 pages. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $18.95 The Lynching of Language: Gender, Politics, and Power in the Hill‐Thomas Hearings, by Sandra L. Ragan, Dianne G. Bystrom, Lynda Lee Kaid, and Christina S. Beck (eds.). Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 1996, 293 pages. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $15.95. “Media events are ceremonial hybrids: part spectacles, part festivals, part texts, part performances.” (Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz in Durkheimian Sociology: Cultural Studies, ed. by Jeffrey C. Alexander, 1986, p. 166) New Social Movements in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis, by Hanspe‐ter Kriesi, Ruud Koopmans, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and Marco G. Giugni. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995, 344 pages. Paper, $21.95. Leading Sectors and World Powers: The Coevolution of Global Economics and Global Politics, by George Modelski and William R. Thompson. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1996, 263 pages. Cloth, $29.95. The Agony of Education: Black Students at White Colleges and Universities, by Joe R. Feagin, Hernan Vera, and Nikitah Imani. New York: Routledge Press, 1996, 22 pages. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $17.95. The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture and Deviance at NASA, by Diane Vaughan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, 575 pages. Cloth, $24.95. The Myth of Social Action, by Colin Campbell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, 199 pages. Cloth, $49.95. Organizing for Equality: The Evolution of Women's and Racial‐Ethnic Organizations in America, 1955–1985, by Debra C. Minkoff. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995, 176 pages. Cloth, $48.00.