Volume 59 No 4 December 2008

Contents

Editorial announcement

    Prejudice

• Is racial prejudice declining in Britain? Robert Ford

• Social class variation in risk: a comparative analysis of the dynamics of economic vulnerability Christopher T. Whelan and Bertrand Maître

• Racism and the sociological imagination Bob Carter and Satnam Virdee

• A clash of civilizations? Examining liberal–democratic values in Turkey an the European Union  Jeffrey C. Dixon

    Gender

• Micropolitics of race and ethnicity in women's prisons in two political contexts Candace Kruttschnitt and Jeanette Hussemann

• In search of the glass ceiling: gender and recruitment to management in Norway's state bureaucracy Aagoth Elise Storvik and Pål Schone

• Parent presence and gender-typicalness of education choice Sara Brolin Laftman

• Economic deprivation, maternal depression, parenting and children's cognitive and emotional development in early childhood Kathleen E. Kiernan and M. Carmen Huerta

 Books reviewed

Author	Title	Reviewer
Becker, Howard S	Telling about Society.	Jack Katz
Hadfield, P.	Bar Wars: Contesting the Night in Contemporary Cities	Karenza Moore
Kymlicka, W.	Multicultural Odysseys: Negotiating the New International Politics of Diversity	John Solomos
Larkin, Ralph W	Comprehending Columbine	Pieter Spierenburg
MacKenzie, D., Muniesa, F. and Siu, L.	Do Economists Make Markets? On the Performativity of Economics	William Davies
Modan, Gabriella Gahlia	Turf Wars: Discourse, Diversity, and the Politics of Place	Colin Jerolmack
Moore, Sarah E.H.	Ribbon Culture: Charity, Compassion and Public Awareness	Alan Radley
Rose, N.	The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century	Barbara Prainsack
Smelser, N.J.	The Faces of Terrorism: Social and Psychological Dimensions	Jeff Victoroff
West, Harry G.	Ethnographic Sorcery	Isak Niehaus
Wuthnow, R.	After the Baby Boomers:  How Twenty and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion	Penny Long Marler