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Publisher: American Sociological Association

Volume 38, Number 5, September 2009
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Editor's Remarks

Teasing Out the Richly Embedded Nuance
pp. ix-x(1)

Review Essays: Water, Climate, and Society

Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West

Water, Place, and Equity
pp. 393-395(3)
Author: Walton, John

Review Essays: Brave New Worlds

Latin America and Global Capitalism: A Critical Globalization Perspective
pp. 396-398(3)
Author: Corradi, Juan E.

Culture

Sound Moves: iPod Culture and Urban Experience
pp. 399-400(2)
Author: Schiller, J. Zach

Identifying Consumption: Subjects and Objects in Consumer Society
pp. 400-402(3)
Author: Rumbo, Joseph D.

The Diaspora Strikes Back: Caribeño Tales of Learning and Turning
pp. 402-403(2)
Author: Bashi Treitler, Vilna

Regionalism and the Reading Class
pp. 403-404(2)
Author: Miller, Laura J.

The Media and Social Theory
pp. 404-406(3)
Author: Pooley, Jefferson D.

Desi Land: Teen Culture, Class, and Success in Silicon Valley
pp. 406-407(2)
Author: Maira, Sunaina

Moral Markets: How Knowledge and Affluence Change Consumers and Products
pp. 407-409(3)
Author: Breslau, Daniel

The Internet and Rural Development in China: The Socio-Structural Paradigm
pp. 409-410(2)
Author: Yang, Guobin

Demography

Migration, Homeland, and Belonging in Eurasia
pp. 410-412(3)
Authors: Muth, Karen; Derlugian, Georgi

A Nation of Emigrants: How Mexico Manages its Migration
pp. 412-413(2)
Authors: Castañeda, Ernesto

Metropolitan Migrants: The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States
pp. 413-415(3)
Author: Denton, Nancy A.

New Faces in New Places: The Changing Geography of American Immigration
pp. 415-416(2)
Author: Kasinitz, Philip

Deviance and Control

On Scandal: Moral Disturbances in Society, Politics, and Art
pp. 416-417(2)
Author: Becker, Howard S.

Lost in Space: The Criminalization, Globalization, and Urban Ecology of Homelessness
pp. 417-419(3)
Author: Gowan, Teresa

Playing the Identity Card: Surveillance, Security and Identification in Global Perspective
pp. 419-420(2)
Author: Staples, William G.

Drug Smugglers on Drug Smuggling: Lessons from the Inside
pp. 420-421(2)
Author: Cepeda, Alice

Dying Inside: The HIV/AIDS Ward at Limestone Prison
pp. 422-423(2)
Author: Dworkin, Shari L.

The Perils of Federalism: Race, Poverty, and the Politics of Crime Control
pp. 423-424(2)
Author: Savelsberg, Joachim J.

Unequal Crime Decline: Theorizing Race, Urban Inequality, and Criminal Violence
pp. 424-425(2)
Author: Reid, Lesley Williams

Ethnicity

Culture Keeping: White Mothers, International Adoption, and the Negotiation of Family Difference
pp. 425-426(2)
Author: Jacobson, Cardell

Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age
pp. 427-428(2)
Authors: Okamoto, Dina; Ebert, Kimberly

Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LA
pp. 428-429(2)
Authors: Lee, Jennifer; Bany, James A.

The Politics of Exclusion: Debating Migration in Austria
pp. 429-430(2)
Author: Squires, Gregory D.

Diaspora by Design: Muslim Immigrants in Canada and Beyond
pp. 431-432(2)
Author: Weinfeld, Morton

Health

The African Transformation of Western Medicine and the Dynamics of Global Cultural Exchange
pp. 432-433(2)
Author: Watkins, Susan Cotts

Dying to Get High: Marijuana as Medicine
pp. 433-434(2)
Author: Ellis, Bernard H.

Medical Research for Hire: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials
pp. 435-436(2)
Author: Ruggie, Mary

Trusting Doctors: The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine
pp. 436-437(2)
Author: Heimer, Carol A.

Politics

To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today's Slaves
pp. 437-439(3)
Author: Bernstein, Elizabeth

Imagining America in 2033: How the Country Put Itself Together after Bush
pp. 439-441(3)
Author: Gerteis, Joseph

The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington
pp. 441-442(2)
Author: McPhail, Clark

Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China
pp. 442-444(3)
Author: Fong, Vanessa L.

The Long Night of Dark Intent: A Half Century of Cuban Communism
pp. 444-445(2)
Author: Nadel, Joshua H.

Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood
pp. 445-446(2)
Author: Saguy, Abigail C.

Making Poverty: A History
pp. 446-447(2)
Author: Pearson, A. Fiona

Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen
pp. 447-449(3)
Author: Oakes, Guy

The Blackwell Companion To Social Movements
pp. 449-450(2)
Author: Bernstein, Mary

The People's Property?: Power, Politics, and the Public
pp. 450-451(2)
Author: Virk, Indermohan

Knowledge and Democracy: A 21st Century Perspective
pp. 452-453(2)
Author: Brown, Mark B.

Beyond Sacred and Secular: Politics of Religion in Israel and Turkey
pp. 453-454(2)
Author: Moaddel, Mansoor

How Many Exceptionalisms?: Explorations in Comparative Macroanalysis
pp. 455-456(2)
Author: Liu, Dongxiao

Sexuality, Gender, and Social Psychology

Male Rape: The Emergence of a Social and Legal Issue
pp. 456-457(2)
Author: Humphries, Drew

The Psychology of Genocide: Perpetrators, Bystanders, and Rescuers
pp. 457-458(2)
Author: Smith, David

Transgender Voices: Beyond Women and Men
pp. 458-459(2)
Author: Ore, Tracy E.

Gender, Race and National Identity: Nations of Flesh and Blood
pp. 459-460(2)
Author: Ferber, Abby L.

Stratification

Child Poverty and Inequality: Securing a Better Future for America's Children
pp. 461-462(2)
Author: Iceland, John

Immigrants and Modern Racism: Reproducing Inequality
pp. 462-463(2)
Author: Fuentes-Mayorga, Norma

Theory and Methods

Sketch for a Self-Analysis
pp. 463-465(3)
Authors: Derluguian, Georgi; Muth, Karen

A World of Chance: Betting on Religion, Games, Wall Street
pp. 465-466(2)
Author: Swedberg, Richard

Max Weber Matters: Interweaving Past and Present
pp. 467-468(2)
Author: Scaff, Lawrence A.

Freedom and Consumerism: A Critique of Zygmunt Bauman's Sociology
pp. 468-469(2)
Author: Halton, Eugene

The Great Brain Suck: And Other American Epiphanies
pp. 469-471(3)
Author: Bute, Monte

Ethnographies of Reason
pp. 471-472(2)
Author: Eyal, Gil

Urban and Communities

The Illusion of Civil Society: Democratization and Community Mobilization in Low-Income Mexico
pp. 472-473(2)
Author: Obadare, Ebenezer

Work and Organizations

Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant
pp. 473-475(3)
Author: Shulman, David

Essays on Professions
pp. 475-476(2)
Author: Vallas, Steven P.

Interpersonal Networks in Organizations: Cognition, Personality, Dynamics, and Culture
pp. 476-477(2)
Author: Archibald, Matthew E.

Deployed: How Reservists Bear the Burden of Iraq
pp. 477-478(2)
Author: Rohall, David

Women Police in a Changing Society: Back Door to Equality
pp. 478-479(2)
Author: Jurik, Nancy C.

Forced Out: Older Workers Confront Job Loss
pp. 480-481(2)
Author: Abramson, Corey M.

The Character of Harms: Operational Challenges in Control
pp. 481-482(2)
Author: Deflem, Mathieu

Briefly Noted

Briefly Noted
pp. 483-496(14)

Comment and Reply

Comment and Reply
pp. 497-499(3)

Publications Received

Publications Received
pp. 500-506(7)

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