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American Journal of Sociology Publication Info

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Vol. 113, No. 4, January 2008
Issue Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/517893
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    Contributors(pp. i-ii)  
    DOI: 10.1086/587039
    Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/587039
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    The Intergenerational Transmission of Context(pp. 931-969)  
    Patrick Sharkey
    DOI: 10.1086/522804
    Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/522804
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    The Making and Unmaking of Ethnic Boundaries: A Multilevel Process Theory(pp. 970-1022)  
    Andreas Wimmer
    DOI: 10.1086/522803
    Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/522803
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    Korean Adoptees and the Social Context of Ethnic Exploration(pp. 1023-1066)  
    Jiannbin Lee Shiao, Mia H. Tuan
    DOI: 10.1086/522807
    Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/522807
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    The Institutional Logic of Union Organizing and the Effectiveness of Social Movement Repertoires(pp. 1067-1103)  
    Andrew W. Martin
    DOI: 10.1086/522806
    Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/522806
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    Becoming Full Citizens: The U.S. Women’s Jury Rights Campaigns, the Pace of Reform, and Strategic Adaptation(pp. 1104-1147)  
    Holly J. McCammon, Soma Chaudhuri, Lyndi Hewitt, Courtney Sanders Muse, Harmony D. Newman, Carrie Lee Smith, Teresa M. Terrell
    DOI: 10.1086/522805
    Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/522805
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    Producing Change or Bagging Opportunity? The Effects of Discrimination Litigation on Women in Supermarket Management(pp. 1148-1182)  
    Sheryl Skaggs
    DOI: 10.1086/522808
    Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/522808
  8. Book Reviews
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      Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City by Mary Pattillo(pp. 1183-1185)  
      Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City  by Mary Pattillo
      Review by: Mario Luis Small
      DOI: 10.1086/533552
      Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533552
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      The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology, and Development in American Urbanism by Jason Hackworth(pp. 1185-1187)  
      The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology, and Development in American Urbanism  by Jason Hackworth
      Review by: Sarah Babb
      DOI: 10.1086/533553
      Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533553
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      Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food and Cold Storage by William DiFazio(pp. 1187-1189)  
      Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food and Cold Storage  by William DiFazio
      Review by: Rebecca Allahyari
      DOI: 10.1086/533554
      Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533554
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      Survival of the Knitted: Immigrant Social Networks in a Stratified World by Vilna Francine Bashi(pp. 1189-1191)  
      Survival of the Knitted: Immigrant Social Networks in a Stratified World  by Vilna Francine Bashi
      Review by: David Fitzgerald
      DOI: 10.1086/533555
      Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533555
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      Unraveling the Garment Industry: Transnational Organizing and Women’s Work by Ethel C. Brooks(pp. 1191-1193)  
      Unraveling the Garment Industry: Transnational Organizing and Women’s Work  by Ethel C. Brooks
      Review by: Charlene M. Gannagé
      DOI: 10.1086/533556
      Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533556
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      Working Construction: Why White Working‐Class Men Put Themselves—and the Labor Movement—in Harm’s Way by Kris Paap(pp. 1193-1195)  
      Working Construction: Why White Working‐Class Men Put Themselves—and the Labor Movement—in Harm’s Way  by Kris Paap
      Review by: Kristen Schilt
      DOI: 10.1086/533557
      Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533557
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      Selling Women Short: Gender and Money on Wall Street by Louise Marie Roth(pp. 1195-1197)  
      Selling Women Short: Gender and Money on Wall Street  by Louise Marie Roth
      Review by: Abigail C. Saguy
      DOI: 10.1086/533558
      Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533558
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      The Ambivalent Consumer: Questioning Consumption in East Asia and the West, edited by Sheldon Garon and Patricia L. Maclachlan(pp. 1197-1199)  
      The Ambivalent Consumer: Questioning Consumption in East Asia and the West  by Sheldon Garon; Patricia L. Maclachlan
      Review by: Alan Warde
      DOI: 10.1086/533559
      Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533559
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      Mutualist Microfinance: Informal Savings Funds from the Global Periphery to the Core? edited by Abram de Swaan and Marcel van der Linden(pp. 1200-1202)  
      Mutualist Microfinance: Informal Savings Funds from the Global Periphery to the Core?  by Abram de Swaan; Marcel van der Linden
      Review by: Mark Schafer
      DOI: 10.1086/533560
      Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533560
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      The Chinese in Silicon Valley: Globalization, Social Networks, and Ethnic Identity by Bernard P. Wong(pp. 1202-1204)  
      The Chinese in Silicon Valley: Globalization, Social Networks, and Ethnic Identity  by Bernard P. Wong
      Review by: Jennifer Lee
      DOI: 10.1086/533561
      Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533561
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      From Hire to Liar: The Role of Deception in the Workplace by David Shulman(pp. 1204-1206)  
      From Hire to Liar: The Role of Deception in the Workplace  by David Shulman
      Review by: James Tucker
      DOI: 10.1086/533562
      Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533562
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      Beyond Self‐Control: Analysis and Critique of Gottfredson and Hirschi’s General Theory of Crime (1990) by Stefan Schulz(pp. 1206-1208)  
      Beyond Self‐Control: Analysis and Critique of Gottfredson and Hirschi’s General Theory of Crime (1990)  by Stefan Schulz
      Review by: Joachim J. Savelsberg
      DOI: 10.1086/533563
      Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533563
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      The Explanation of Crime: Contexts, Mechanisms and Development, edited by Per‐Olof H. Wikström and Robert J. Sampson(pp. 1208-1210)  
      The Explanation of Crime: Contexts, Mechanisms and Development  by Per‐Olof H. Wikström; Robert J. Sampson
      Review by: Gilbert Geis
      DOI: 10.1086/533564
      Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533564
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      Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder by Daniel Chirot and Clark McCauley(pp. 1210-1213)  
      Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder  by Daniel Chirot; Clark McCauley
      Review by: Juan Díez Medrano
      DOI: 10.1086/533565
      Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533565
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      Modern Clan Politics: The Power of “Blood” in Kazakhstan and Beyond by Edward Schatz(pp. 1213-1215)  
      Modern Clan Politics: The Power of “Blood” in Kazakhstan and Beyond  by Edward Schatz
      Review by: Burna Turam
      DOI: 10.1086/533566
      Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533566
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      Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy by Robert Higgs(pp. 1215-1216)  
      Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy  by Robert Higgs
      Review by: Gregory Hooks
      DOI: 10.1086/533567
      Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533567
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      The Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas by Aviel Roshwald(pp. 1217-1219)  
      The Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas  by Aviel Roshwald
      Review by: Ronald Grigor Suny
      DOI: 10.1086/533568
      Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533568
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      Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? by G. Reginald Daniel(pp. 1219-1221)  
      Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?  by G. Reginald Daniel
      Review by: Zine Magubane
      DOI: 10.1086/533569
      Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533569
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      Narrating Social Order: Agoraphobia and the Politics of Classification by Shelley Z. Reuter(pp. 1221-1223)  
      Narrating Social Order: Agoraphobia and the Politics of Classification  by Shelley Z. Reuter
      Review by: Janet Wirth‐Cauchon
      DOI: 10.1086/533570
      Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533570
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      Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations, edited by João Biehl, Byron Good, and Arthur Kleinman(pp. 1223-1225)  
      Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations  by João Biehl; Byron Good; Arthur Kleinman
      Review by: Michal Pagis
      DOI: 10.1086/533571
      Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533571
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      Language and Social Relations by Asif Agha(pp. 1225-1228)  
      Language and Social Relations  by Asif Agha
      Review by: Kwai Hang Ng
      DOI: 10.1086/533572
      Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533572
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      My Life among the Deathworks: Illustrations of the Aesthetics of Authority by Philip Rieff(pp. 1228-1229)  
      My Life among the Deathworks: Illustrations of the Aesthetics of Authority  by Philip Rieff
      Review by: Philip Manning
      DOI: 10.1086/533573
      Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533573
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      Bearing Witness against Sin: The Evangelical Birth of the American Social Movement by Michael P. Young(pp. 1230-1232)  
      Bearing Witness against Sin: The Evangelical Birth of the American Social Movement  by Michael P. Young
      Review by: Stephen Ellingson
      DOI: 10.1086/533574
      Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533574
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      The Market Comes to Education in Sweden: An Evaluation of Sweden’s Surprising School Reforms by Anders Björklund, Melissa A. Clark, Per‐Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson, and Alan Krueger(pp. 1232-1234)  
      The Market Comes to Education in Sweden: An Evaluation of Sweden’s Surprising School Reforms  by Anders Björklund; Melissa A. Clark; Per‐Anders Edin; Peter Fredriksson; Alan Krueger
      Review by: Richard Arum
      DOI: 10.1086/533575
      Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533575
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      Flavor of the Month: Why Smart People Fall for Fads by Joel Best(pp. 1234-1235)  
      Flavor of the Month: Why Smart People Fall for Fads  by Joel Best
      Review by: Karen Bettez Halnon
      DOI: 10.1086/533576
      Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533576