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century. By combining an historical approach with consideration
elucidate their role in shaping the countryside of the future .
of their contemporary role, the book serves to
Cochran, Moncrieff, Larner, Mary, Riley, David, Gunnarsson, Lars, & Henderson, Jr ., Charles R . (1990) .
Extending Families: The Social Networks of Parents and Their Children . New York: cambridge University Press .
(320 pp ., $49.50) .
Extending Families is a ground-breaking study about how personal networks evolve and what roles they play
for parents and for the development of children . The volume is an outgrowth of a ten-year cooperative research
effort carried out by the authors as part of the Comparative Ecology of Human Development Project at Cornell
University. The authors document and compare the roles of network member players, the ways that networks
change over time, and the impact of different network resources on developing individuals .
Cohen, Carl I ., & Sokolovsky, Jay. (1989) . Old Men of the Bowery- Strategies for Survival among the Homeless .
New York : Guilford Press . (248 pp., $17.50) .
The objective of this book is to refocus attention on older homeless men who, the authors say, are somewhat
ignored in recent literature on homelessness . The authors reject previous definitions of Bowery men as disaffiliated
or undersocialized, and conclude that old Bowery men have social networks "appropriate to their ecological niche ."
In line with many previous studies, they find Bowery men only relatively disaffiliated. They have "viable social
networks," but compared to age peers in the general community, they manifest "relative isolation and a paucity of
intimate contexts ."
Cook, Scott and Leigh Binford . (1990) . Obliging Need: Rural Petty Industry In Mexican Capitalism . University of
Texas Press : Austin, TX. (328 pp., $37.50) .
The Oaxaca Valley of Mexico is used as an example of how small- scale capitalism develops from within
Mexico's rural economy . The authors show how peasant and artisans organize and operate in different craft industries
combining commodity production with household chores, agriculture, wage labor and petty commerce .
Deak, Istvan . (1990) . Beyond Nationalism : A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps,
1848-1918. Oxford University Press (302 pp., $39 .95) .
This is a social history of the military elite told though documents of the Vienna's War Archives and memoir
samples . Deak traces the careers of two lieutenants though their education and life in the regiment . He describes
features of the nineteenth- century Austrian officer corps including, the corps peace-time influence, the transition
from family network to regular commission, the corps internationalism, and lack of official religious discrimination .
DeForest, Orrin and . .. . (1990) Slow Burn. Simon & Schuster: New York. (294 pp ., $18.95) .
Personal narrative of U . S . CIA actions in Vietnam 1961-1975 .
Delamont, Sara. (1989) . Knowledgeable Women : Structuralism and the Reproduction of Elites . New York:
Routledge. (352 pp., $35 .00) .
Tracing the history of women's education and the elites it produces, Sara Delamont examines class and
gender divisions in the structure and content of education in Britain and the U . S . from 1850 to the present day .
Her empirical focus is elite women, a group rarely studied .
Drezon-Tepler, Marcia. (1990) . Interest Groups and Political Change in Israel . Albany: SUNY Press . (Paper
$16 .95) .
Challenges the conventional view of Israeli politics as an ideological, strong, party system .
Dykstra, Pearl A.(1990) .Next of (Non)Kin : The Importance of Primary Relationships for Older Adults'
Well-Being. Amsterdam/Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger B.V. .
Studies the numbers and types of relationships constituting the primary network, and the properties and
supportiveness of the core network and loneliness .
Elster, Jon. (1989) . The Cement of Society: A Study of Social Order. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
(311pp., $4450, .cloth ; $15 .95, paper) .
Elster uses a modified rational choice theory as an explanation for the collective bargaining in Sweden . He
argues that rational choice theory in combination with an analysis of social norms, a source of motivation "irreducible
to rationality," can explain a such a set of real-world problems . The author breaks down social order into
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