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- 5 0 -MOCH, Leslie Page and Gary STARK, eds . 1983. ESSAYS ON THE FAMILY AND HISTORICAL CHANGE . College Station :Texas A & M Press . 136 pp . $17 .50 .5 essays that provide an anthro . perspective to working class, middle class & elite families of the20th century . (from publisher's blurb) .RIHANI, May . 1978 . DEVELOPMENT AS IF WOMEN MATTERED : AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY WITH A THIRD WORLD FOCUS .Overseas Development Council, 1717 Massachusetts Ave ., N .W., Washington, D .C . 20036. $3 .00 .Includes summaries of 287 studies, plus addresses for articles not readily available in libraries .The studies are collected under subject headings and geographical categories . (Source : RAIN 9,4) .DAUN, 2ke (Architecture, Royal Inst . of Tech .-Stockholm) . 1982 . EGENNYTTAN OCH DET MEDLEMSK4PET (SeZf-Interest and Social Membership) . Stockholm : Tidens forZag . 203 pp . S kr . 78 .This book consists of articles & lectures which were published & presented, 1976-1981 . The aim is topenetrate central issues concerning man's conditions in dwelling, recreation and working life . Whatcan be done in the housing policy, the social policy, the cultural policy and in working life? Thesequestions are illustrated through a discussion of the lives people live in different contexts and themanner in which their interests and culturally based evaluations sometimes conflict with and sometimescoincide with more overall social interests . The text is based on ethnological research which is empiricaland qualitative in nature . It embraces a large amount of different source materials, includingobservations and interviews . (from publisher's blurb) .BARTH, Fredrik . 1983? SOHAR : CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN AN OMANI TOWN . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press .$24 .50 .Sohar exists as a unique city, shaped & governed by the interactions of its many ethnic groups . Thisbook places in a new setting broad questions about the relationships between ethnic groups & the dominantculture & about the transmission of ethnic & cultural differences from generation to generation .(from publisher's blurb) .LE ROY LADURIE, Emmanuel . 1982? LOVE, DEATH AND MONEY IN THE PAYS D'OC . New York :$30 . 00 .George BraziZer .The latest sortie into the popular culture of the Occitan involves the radical analysis of an 18th centurypicaresque fable, revealing the intricate social and economic networks of the Pays d'Oc as reflectedin the literary and oral traditions of the time . (from publisher's blurb) .BARBER, Bernard. 1982? THE LOGIC AND LIMITS OF TRUST . New Brunswick, N .J . : Rutgers Univ Press . 203 pp . $9 .95 .Focuses on how trust & distrust function in the settings of family, politics, business, foundations &the professions . (from publisher's blurb) .VELEZ-IBAIIEZ, Carlos . 1982? BONDS OF MUTUAL TRUST : THE CULTURAL SYSTEMS OF ROTATING CREDIT ASSOCIATIONSAMONG URBAN MEXICANS AND CHICANOS . New Brunswick, N .J . : Rutgers Univ Press . 185 pp . $22 .50 .The 1st full-length treatment of the RCAs to which members contribute regular sums, each receiving moneyin turn . The RCAs are a response to social & economic oppression, a way to accumulate capital & toachieve self-esteem . (from publisher's blurb) .TEPPERMAN, Lorne (Soc-Toronto), ed . FORMAL AND INFORMAL CAREER STRUCTURES : A PREFACE AND SEVEN INTERVIEWS .Toronto : Structural AnaZusis Programme, Dept . of Sociology, Univ . of Toronto . 127 pp .Careers are largely determined by formal & informal social structures . This working paper discussesa variety of such structures . The 7 interviews have out by Tepperman with experts in the field ofstructural analysis in preparation for a CBC radio series on careers . They are with Harrison White,Magali Larson, Mark Granovetter, Jeffrey Reitz, Richard Edwards, Raymond Breton & Lester Thurlow .