Volume 53 No 4 December 2002

Contents

• Explaining gender segregation Robert M Blackburn, Jude Browne, Bradley Brooks and Jennifer Jarman
• Employment, flexible working and the family Rosemary Crompton
• Reflections on the meritocracy debate in Britain: a response to Richard Breen and John Goldthorpe¹ Peter Saunders
• Merit, mobility and method: another reply to Saunders Richard Breen and John H Goldthorpe
• Ideal types, stereotypes and classes Kenneth Prandy
• Higher education and civic engagement* Muriel Egerton
• Culture, the 'sick role' and the consumption of health Chris Shilling
• Positivism in sociological research: USA and UK (1966-1990) ¹  C David Gartrell and John W Gartrell
• Complexity and practical knowledge in the social sciences: a comment on Stehr and Grundmann Gabrielle Meagher and Shaun Wilson
• Global anti-corporate struggle: a preliminary analysis ¹ Nick Crossley

Books reviewed

Pages 693-700

Author	Title	Reviewer
Esping-Andersen, G and Regini, M (eds)	Why Deregulate Labour Markets?	Jacqueline O'Reilly
Hutter, Bridget M	Regulation and Risk: Occupational Health and Safety on the Railways	Charlotte Villiers
Miles, Steven	Social Theory in the Real World	Patrick Doreian
Stinchcombe, Arthur L	When Formality Works. Authority and Abstraction in Law and Organizations	Rafael Wittek