Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 21

This handsomely bound volume contains 23 articles by leading scholars addressing recent developments in the field of sociology. It opens with W. Richard Scott's (Stanford U.) reflections on the emergence of organizational sociology during the second half of the 20th century. Other topics include (for example) a review of Durkheim's Theory of Mental Categories and examinations of the "new" science of networks, the sociology of property rights, and the relationship between labor markets and geographic space. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR