Volume 38 No 4 December 1987

Contents

• The Operationalisation of Class in British Sociology: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations, Vic Duke, Stephen Edgell
• The Tough Test and the Thin Theory: The Minimal Conditions Required for Capitalism to Exist, Bruce T Coram
• Cultural Nationalism, Elite Mobility and Nation-Building: Communitarian Politics in Modern Ireland, John Hutchinson
• The Idea of Crisis in Modern Society, R J Holton
• Organizational Efficiency and Egalitarian Democracy in an Intentional Communal Society: The Kibbutz, Menachem Rosner, Arnold S Tannenbaum
• Black and Blue in Chicago: Robert E Park's Perspective on Race Relations in Urban America, 1914-44, Barbara Ballis Lal
• Durkheim's Concept of Anomie Considered as a 'Total' Social Fact, Stjepan G Meštrović

Books reviewed

Pages 584-598

Author	Title	Reviewer
Howard Schuman, Charlotte Steeh, Lawrence Bobo	Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations	Steve Bruce
Donald L Horowitz	Ethnic Groups in Conflict	S Fenton
Nicholas Abercrombie, Stephen Hill, Bryan S Turner	Sovereign Individuals of Capitalism	Gregor McLennan
Sharon Mast	Stages of Identity: A Study of Actors	Ron Iphofen
E Burke Rochford	Hare Krishna in America	Robert S Fogarty
Janina Markiewicz-Lagneau	La Formation d'une Pensée Sociologique: la Société Polonaise de l'Entredeux-guerres	Jerzy Szacki
C R Littler, G Salaman	Class at Work: The Design, Allocation and Control of Jobs	Paul Bagguley
William Buxton	Talcott Parsons and the Capitalist Nation-State: Political Sociology as a Strategic Vocation	Stephen Edgell
Michael Banton	Investigating Robbery	A Keith Bottomley
L Bonfield, R Smith, K Wrightson	The World We Have Gained: Histories of Population and Social Structure	Chris Middleton
A E Easterlin, E M Crimmins	The Fertility Revolution: A Supply-Demand Analysis	Chris Middleton
J C Riley	Population Thought in the Age of the Demographic Revolution	Chris Middleton
M S Teitelbaum	The British Fertility Decline: Demographic Transition in the Crucible of the Industrial Revolution	Chris Middleton
M S Teitelbaum, J M Winter	The Fear of Population Decline	Chris Middleton
William Form	Divided We Stand: Working-Class Stratification in America	Paul Bagguley