Volume 55 No 2 June 2004

Contents

Education, class and gender

• A unified middle class or two middle classes? A comparison of career strategies and intergenerational mobility strategies between teachers and managers in contemporary Hong Kong Yi-Lee Wong
• Women's and men's careers in British sociology Jennifer Platt
• The sources of political orientations in post-industrial society: social class and education revisited Herman G Van de Werfhorst and Nan Dirk de Graaf

The state, multiculturalism and Islam

• The retreat of multiculturalism in the liberal state: theory and policy Christian Joppke
• The politics of engagement between Islam and the secular state: ambivalences of 'civil society' Berna Turam

Consumption and identity

• Consumption and its discontents: addiction, identity and the problems of freedom Gerda Reith

Books reviewed

Pages 301-312

Author	Title	Reviewer
Demerath, N J	Crossing the Gods	Grace Davie
Fenn, R K	The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion	Amanda van Eck Duymaer van Twist
Goodwin, Jeff and Jasper, James M (eds)	The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts	Nebojša Vladisavljević
Guillén, Mauro F	The Limits of Convergence: Globalization and Organizational Change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain	Xavier Coller
Innes, Martin	Investigating Murder: Detective Work and the Police Response to Criminal Homicide	Peter K Manning
Jordan, Bill and Duvell, Franck	Migration: The Boundaries of Equality and Justice	Dora Kostakopoulou
Nelson, Todd D (ed)	Ageism: Stereotyping and Prejudice Against Older Persons	Kate Davidson
Reith, Gerda (ed)	Gambling: Who Wins? Who Loses?	Jim Ottaway
Sumner, Colin (ed)	The Blackwell Companion to Criminology	Paul Rock
Woolgar, Steve	Virtual Society? Technology, Cyberbole, Reality	Edgar A Whitley