Volume 50 No 2 June 1999

Contents

• Risk and the welfare state Peter Taylor-Gooby, Hartley Dean, Moira Munro and Gillian Parker
• Socio-economic re-structuring and employment: the case of minority ethnic groups Paul Iganski and Geoff Payne
• Routes of success: influences on the occupational attainment of young British males Rod Bond and Peter Saunders
• Governing police practice: limits of the new accountability Janet Chan
• Norbert Elias and the civilized prison John Pratt
• The barbarism of civilization: cultural genocide and the 'stolen generations' Robert van Krieken
• The concept of adequate causation and Max Weber's comparative sociology of religion Andreas Buss
• Two arguments for 'covert methods' in social research CD Herrera

Books reviewed

Pages 340-357

Author	Title	Reviewer
Alcock, P, Erskine, A and May, M (eds)	The Student's Companion to Social Policy	Alan Clarke
Baudrillard, Jean	The Consumer Society	Stuart Weston
Brewer, John D, Lockhart, Bill and Rodgers, Paula	Crime in Ireland 1945-95: Here Be Dragons	Aogán Mulcahy
Davies, Christie	Jokes and Their Relation to Society	David Martin
Erikson, K (ed)	Sociological Visions	Martin Albrow
Giddens, Anthony	The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy	CGA Bryant
Giddens, Anthony and Pierson, Christopher	Conversations with Anthony Giddens: Making Sense of Modernity	CGA Bryant
Goudsblom, Johan and Mennell, Stephen (eds)	The Norbert Elias Reader	Monica Greco
Jamieson, Lynn	Intimacy: Personal Relationships in Modern Societies	Martin O'Brien
Macnaghten, Phil and Urry, John	Contested Natures	Mike Gane
Mennell, Stephen and Goudsblom, Johan (eds)	Norbert Elias - On Civilisation, Power and Knowledge	Monica Greco
Peck, J	Work-Place: The social Regulation of Labor Markets	Alan Felstead
Pilkington, Hillary	Migration, Displacement and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia	Larry Ray
Ringer, Fritz	Max Weber's Methodology: the Unification of the Cultural and Social Sciences	Gregor McLennan
Rock, Paul	Reconstructing a Women's Prison: The Holloway Redevelopment Project 1968-88	Loraine R Gelsthorpe
Sniderman, PM and Carmines, Edward G	Reaching Beyond Race	Paul Iganski
Swatos Jnr, William H (ed)	Encyclopedia of Religion and Society	James A Beckford
van Krieken, Robert	Norbert Elias	Monica Greco