Volume 42 No 4 December 1991

Contents

• Culture as Figurative Action, Clifford D Shearing, Richard V Ericson
• Education and Social Class: Revisiting the 1944 Education Act with Fixed Marginals, Robert M Blackburn, Catherine Marsh
• Childhood Influences on Adult Male Earnings in a Longitudinal Study, Diana Kuh, Michael Wadsworth
• Disability and Social Stratification, Richard Jenkins
• Distributive Justice and Occupational Incomes: Perceptions of Justice Determine Perceptions of Fact, Bruce Headey
• A Piece of Business: The Moral Economy of Detective Work in the East-End of London, Dick Hobbs
• The Politics of Welfare Policy in Sweden: Structural Determinants and Attitudinal Cleavages, Stefan Svallfors

Books reviewed

Pages 635-651

Author	Title	Reviewer
Andrew Linklater	Beyond Realism and Marxism: Critical Theory and International Relations	Justin Rosenberg
Paul Thompson, David McHugh	Work Organisations: A Critical Introduction	Stephen Ackroyd
Peter Saunders	A Nation of Home Owners	Richard Scase
David Held, John B Thompson	Social Theory of Modern Societies: Anthony Giddens and His Critics	Ira J Cohen
Anthony Giddens	The Consequences of Modernity	Ira J Cohen
D H Whittaker	Managing Innovation: A Study of British and Japanese Factories	Bryn Jones
Immanuel Wallerstein	The Modern World-System III: The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730-1840s	Richard Lachmann
Jean Baechler, John A Hall, Michael Mann	Europe and the Rise of Capitalism	Richard Lachmann
Ralph Miliband	Divided Societies: Class Struggle in Contemporary Capitalism	John Schwarzmantel
Max Weber, Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer, Petra Kolonko	Die Wirtschaftsethik der Weltreligionen: Konfuzianismus und Taoismus	Gianfranco Poggi
M Hammersley	The Dilemma of Qualitative Method: Herbert Blumer and the Chicago Tradition	David Hughes
Ruth Taplin	Economic Development and the Role of Women	Jack Nusan Porter