Book Reviews: A Critical Dictionary of Sociology,A Treatise on Social Theory. Volume II: Substantive Social Theory,Max Weber and Thomas Mann: Calling and the Shaping of the Self,ÉMile Durkheim and the Reformation of Sociology,Politics and Class Analysis,Choice,Rationality and Social,Social Anthropology and the Politics of Language,The Pluralist Theory of the State: Selected Writings of G.D.H. Cole,J.N. Figgis and H.J. Laski,Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism,Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory,The Woman in the Body. A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction,Rediscovering Masculinity: Reason,Language and Sexuality,Growing Old in the Twentieth Century,Nursing the Dying,Doctoring the Media: The Reporting of Health and Medicine,Social Order/Mental Disorder: Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective.,Sport in Britain: A Social History,Family Art,‘Highbrow! Lowbrow’: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America

Bourricaud François , (1981), The Sociology of Talcott Parsons, Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Kroker Arthur Kroker Marilouise Cook David (eds) (1989), Panic Encyclopedia, the definitive guide to the postmodern scene, London, Macmillan. Smelser Neil J. , (ed.), (1988), Handbook of Sociology, Newbury Park, Sage.

Heath A. , (1985), How Britain Votes, Pergamon, Oxford.

Wright E.O. , (1978), Class, Crisis and the State, Verso, London.

Bendix Reinhard , (1964), Nation-Building and Citizenship, Wiley, New York.

Marquand David , (1988), The Unprincipled Society, Fontana, London.

The Meaning of Things, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Eugene Rochberg-Halton, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1981.

Women, Food and Families, Nickie Charles and Marion Kerr, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1988.

Abrams M.H. ‘Art-as-Such: The Sociology of Modern Aesthetics Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 38, (1985): 8–33.

Bourdieu Pierre , Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, translated by Nice Richard , London: Harvard University Press, 1984.

DeNora Tia , Mozart's Spirit from Haydn's Hands'. The Social Bases and Social Consequences of Beethoven's Success and Vanguard Style During his First Decade in Vienna, 1792–1803, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California at San Diego, 1989.

Douglas Mary , Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Pollution and Taboo, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966.

Pick John , Managing the Arts? The British Experience, London: Rhinegold Publishing, 1986, chapter 2.

Tuchman Gaye with Fortin Nina E. , Edging Women Out: Victorian Novelists, Publishers, and Social Change, London: Yale University Press, 1989.

Weber William M. , Music and the Middle Class in Nineteenth Century Europe, New York: Holmes and Meier, 1976.

Weber William M. , 1986, ‘The Rise of the Classical Repertoire in Nineteenth-Century Orchestral Concerts, in The Orchestra: Origins and Transformations, ed. Peyser Joan , New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Wiebe Robert , The Search for Order, 1877–1920, New York: Hill and Wang, 1967.

Wolff Janet , ‘The Problem of Ideology in the Sociology of Art: A Case Study of Manchester in the Nineteenth Century’ Media, Culture and Society, 4 (1982).