Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews
January 2000, Volume 29, Number 1
Co-Editors: Barbara J. Risman, Donald Tomaskovic-Dwvey. Managing Editor, Martha M. Dimes.
Symposium
Utopian Visions: Engaged Sociologies for the 21st Century
Achieving Basic Survival
Preventing Genocide
Anthony Oberschall
Ending Hunger in Developing Countries
Frederick H. Buttel
Resisting Homelessness: Global, National, and Local Solutions
Talmadge Wright
Making Corporate and Criminal America Less Violent: Public Norms and Structural Reforms
John Hagan and Holly Foster
Teaching Low-Income Children to Read at Grade Level
George Farkas
Fostering a Justice-based Health Care System
Donald W. Light
Enhancing Mental health Services Delivery for Diverse Populations
David Takeuchi and Katherin Flower Kim
Creating a Caring Society
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Reducing Inequalities
Doing Antiracism and making a Nonracist Society
Jacqueline Johnson, Sharon Rush, and Joe Feagin
Limiting Gender Inequality through Interaction: The End(s) of Gender
Cecilia Ridgeway and Shelley Correll
Minimizing Workplace Gender and Racial Bias
William T. Bielby
Envisioning the Integration of Family and Work: Toward a Kinder, Gentler Workplace
Jennifer Glass
Reducing Income and Wealth Inequality: Real Utopian Proposals
Erik Olin Wright
Envisioning a Third Way: The Welfare State in the Twenty-first Century
John Myles and Jill Quadagno
Expanding Democratic Choices
Schooling for Democracy: Towrad a Critical Utopianism
Gustavo E. Fischman and Peter McLaren
Resolving Family Dilemmas and Conflicts: Beyond Utopia
Kathleen Gerson
Creating Good Communities and Good Societies
Amitai Etzioni
Creating a Just and Democratic Workplace: More Egngagement, Less Hierarchy
Joyce Rothschild
Creating Sexual Justice and Sexual Pleasure in the Twenty-first Century
Pepper Schwartz
Mobilizing for Change in a Social Movement Society
Verta Taylor
Fighting Marginalization with Transnational Networks: Counter-Hegemonic Globalization
Peter Evans
Reviews
Achieving Basic Survival
The Tainted Desert: Environmental and Social Ruin in the American West
Valerie L. Kuletz
Instituting Environmental Protection: From Red to Green in Poland
Daniel H. Cole
The Sociology of Health Inequities
Mel Bartley, David Blane, and George Davy Smith
Health Care Systems in Transition: An International Perspective
Francis D. Powell and Albert F. Wessen
The Politics of International Health: The Children's Vaccine Initiative and the Struggle to Develop Vaccines for the Third World
William Muraskin
Pregnant Women on Drugs: Combating Stereotypes and Stigma
Sheigla Murphy and Marsha Rosenbaum
Does America hate the Poor? The Other American Dilemma
John E. Tropman
Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition
Kathleen Barker and Kathleen Christensen
The Future of Anomie Theory
Nikos Passas and Robert Agnew
Losing Legitimacy: Street Crime and the Decline of Social Institutions in America
Gary LaFree
Grassroots Warriors: Activist Mothering, Community Work, and the War on Poverty
Nancy A. Naples
Reducing Inequalities
Don't Call Us Out of Name: The Untold Lives of Women and Girls in Poor America; and "So You Think I Drive a Cadillac?" Welfare Recipients' Perspectives on the System and Its Reform
Lisa Dodson and Karen Seccombe
Debating Cultural Hybridity: Multi-Cultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-Racism
Pnina Werbner and Tariq Modood, eds.
Corporations vs. the Court: Private Power, Public Interests
David Scuilli
Halving It All: How Equally Shared Parenting Works
Francine M. Deutsch
Work and Welfare
Robert M. Solow
The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy
Robert Pollin and Stephanie Luce
The Future of European Welfare: A New Social Contract?
Martin Rhodes and Yves Mény, eds.
The Myth of the Powerless State
Linda Weiss
The Welfare State's Other Crisis: Explaining the New Partnership Between Nonprofit Organizations and the State in France
Claire F. Ullman
Expanding Democratic Choices
Rescuing All Our Futures: The Future of Futures Studies
Aiauddin Sardar, ed.
Struggling for the Soul: The Politics of Schooling and the Construction of the Teacher
Thomas S. Popkewitz
Sociology of Education: Emerging Perspectives
Carlos Alberto Torres and Theodore R. Mitchell, eds.
Real Civil Societies: Dilemmas of Institutionalization
Jeffrey C. Alexander, ed.
Toward a Democratic Science: Scientific Narration and Civic Communication
Richard Harvey Brown
The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice
Christopher H. Foreman, Jr.
Acts of Dissent: New Developments in the Study of Protest
Dieter Rucht, Ruud Koopmans, and Friedhelm Neidhardt, eds.
Social Movements in a Globalizing World
Donatella della Porta, Hanspeter Kriesi, and Dieter Rucht, eds.
The Golem at Large: What You Should Know About Technology
Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch