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Publisher: American Sociological Association

Volume 38, Number 1, January 2009
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Editors' Note

Editor's Note
pp. vii-viii(1)
Author: Sica, Alan

Review Essays

Consuming Youth
pp. 1-4(4)
Author: Currie, Elliott

Adaptation or Paradigm Shift?
pp. 5-8(4)
Author: Etzioni, Amitai

Beyond the Everyday
pp. 8-10(3)
Author: Fenstermaker, Sarah

The World and the Academy: New Directions in Human Rights Scholarship
pp. 11-14(4)
Author: Hajjar, Lisa

Medical Practices
pp. 14-17(4)
Author: Hartley, Heather

Working In and Out of Poverty: Trends, Challenges and Strategies
pp. 17-20(4)
Author: Parcel, Toby L.

Culture

American Catholics Today: New Realities of Their Faith and Their Church
pp. 21-22(2)
Author: Alwin, Duane F.

Finding Faith: The Spiritual Quest of the Post-Boomer Generation
pp. 22-24(3)
Author: Murphy-Geiss, Gail

Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives
pp. 24-25(2)
Author: Lindner, Andrew M.

Authentic New Orleans: Tourism, Culture and Race in the Big Easy
pp. 25-27(3)
Author: Fainstein, Norman

Saving the Modern Soul: Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help
pp. 27-28(2)
Author: Simonds, Wendy

Democracy's Dharma: Religious Renaissance and Political Development in Taiwan
pp. 28-29(2)
Author: Yang, Fenggang

The Role of Religion in Modern Societies
pp. 30-31(2)
Author: Miller, Jon

Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers
pp. 31-32(2)
Author: Cohan, Mark

Public Pulpits: Methodists and Mainline Churches in the Moral Argument of Public Life
pp. 32-33(2)
Author: Evans, John H.

Demography

Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage
pp. 33-35(3)
Author: Brines, Julie

Unmarried Couples with Children
pp. 35-36(2)
Author: Roy, Kevin M.

Deviance and Control

Sin No More: From Abortion to Stem Cells, Understanding Crime, Law, and Morality in America
pp. 36-38(3)
Author: Jensen, Gary

But Is It Racial Profiling? Policing, Pretext Stops, and the Color of Suspicion
pp. 38-39(2)
Author: Drakulich, Kevin M.

The Faces of Terrorism: Social and Psychological Dimensions
pp. 39-40(2)
Author: Goodwin, Jeff

Pockets of Crime: Broken Windows, Collective Efficacy, and the Criminal Point of View
pp. 41-42(2)
Author: Page, Joshua

Immigration and Crime: The Effects of Immigration on Criminal Behavior
pp. 42-43(2)
Author: Laidler, Karen Joe

The Great American Crime Decline
pp. 44-45(2)
Author: McCleary, Richard

Ethnicity

Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops
pp. 45-47(3)
Author: Grasmuck, Sherri

Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai'i
pp. 47-48(2)
Author: McVeigh, Rory

Earnings Attainment of Chinese Americans: A Multilevel Analysis
pp. 49-50(2)
Author: Sakamoto, Arthur

When Ways of Life Collide: Multiculturalism and Its Discontents in the Netherlands
pp. 50-51(2)
Author: Quillian, Lincoln

Politics

Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity
pp. 51-52(2)
Author: Mertig, Angela G.

Nations Matter: Culture, History and the Cosmopolitan Dream
pp. 53-54(2)
Author: Berezin, Mabel

Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party
pp. 54-55(2)
Author: Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo

Cultural Overstretch? Differences Between Old and New Member States of the EU and Turkey
pp. 55-57(3)
Author: Lee Mudge, Stephanie

From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History: The Politics of Waste in Socialist and Postsocialist Hungary
pp. 57-58(2)
Author: Brown, David L.

How Many Machine Guns Does It Take to Cook One Meal: The Seattle and San Francisco General Strikes
pp. 58-60(3)
Author: Rosenthal, Rob

Citizenship: Discourse, Theory, and Transnational Prospects
pp. 60-61(2)
Author: Esparza, Louis Edgar

Protest and Opportunities: The Political Outcomes of Social Movements
pp. 61-63(3)
Author: McCammon, Holly

Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad
pp. 63-64(2)
Author: Moaddel, Mansoor

The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea
pp. 64-66(3)
Author: Park, Hyung Ok

Vilfredo Pareto's Sociology: A Framework for Political Psychology
pp. 66-67(2)
Author: Higley, John

Social Movements for Global Democracy
pp. 67-68(2)
Author: Horton, Lynn R.

How Drug Dealers Settle Disputes: Violent and Nonviolent Outcomes
pp. 68-70(3)
Author: Grills, Scott

The Fight Over Food: Producers, Consumers, and Activists Challenge the Global Food System
pp. 70-71(2)
Author: McMichael, Philip

Stratification

Lone Pursuit: Distrust and Defensive Individualism Among the Black Poor
pp. 71-72(2)
Author: Western, Bruce

Ordinary People: In and Out of Poverty in the Gilded Age
pp. 72-74(3)
Author: Anderton, Douglas L.

Theory and Methods

Consuming Life
pp. 74-75(2)
Author: Miller, Laura J.

Geography of Hope: Exile, the Enlightenment, Disassimilation
pp. 75-76(2)
Author: Epstein, Cynthia Fuchs

Cosmic Society: Towards a Sociology of the Universe
pp. 77-78(2)
Authors: Dandaneau, Steven P.; Dandaneau, Debra K.

Cosmopolitanism
pp. 78-79(2)
Author: Platt, Alex

Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher
pp. 79-81(3)
Author: Prendergast, Christopher

Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor Network Theory
pp. 81-83(3)
Author: Collier, Stephen J.

Judith Butler: From Norms to Politics
pp. 83-84(2)
Author: Connell, Raewyn

Work and Organizations

Just Around the Corner: The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery
pp. 84-85(2)
Author: Nissen, Bruce

Staircases or Treadmills? Labor Market Intermediaries and Economic Opportunity in a Changing Economy
pp. 85-87(3)
Author: Gonos, George

Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex
pp. 87-88(2)
Author: van der Meulen, Emily

Getting the Goods: Ports, Labor, and the Logistics Revolution
pp. 88-89(2)
Author: Finlay, William

On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters
pp. 89-90(2)
Author: Vaughan, Diane

Human Capital, Inter-firm Mobility, and Organizational Evolution
pp. 90-92(3)
Author: Ruef, Martin

Entrepreneurship in China
pp. 92-93(2)
Author: Guthrie, Doug

Briefly Noted

Briefly Noted
pp. 94-100(7)

Comment and Reply

Comment and Reply
pp. 101-101(1)

Publications Received

Publications Received
pp. 102-110(9)

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