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Volume 23, Issue 2 (1996) June

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Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 23, No. 2 (June 1996)

Articles

Three Discourses on Practice: A Postmodern Re-appraisal
Peter Leonard

Poverty, Family Support, and Well-Being of Infants: Mexican Immigrant Women and Childbearing
Margaret Sherrard Sherraden and Rossana E. Barrera

Speak of the Devil: Rhetoric in Claims-Making About the Satanic Ritual Abuse Problem
Mary DeYoung

Factors in Length of Foster Care: Worker Activities and Parent-Child Visitation
Maryellen White, Eric Albers, and Christine Bitonti

Mothers with Children and Mothers Alone: A Comparison of Homeless Families
Jennifer E. Glick

Managed Computer System Conceptualization: Knowing When to Say No
Menachmen Monnickendam

Purchase of Service Contracting Versus Government Service Delivery: The Views of State Human Service Administrators
Peter M. Kettner and Lawrence L. Martin

Ecological Approach in Practice: A Case Study of the Ounce of Prevention Fund
Marilyn Fernandez and Laura Nichols

Book Notes

Rebuilding the Inner City: A History of Neighborhood Initiatives to Address Poverty in the United States. Robert Halpern.

Crime and Inequality. John Hagen and Ruth Patterson (Eds).

Rights and the Common Good: The Communitarian Perspective. Amitai Etzioni.

A Second Chicago School: The Development of a Postwar American Sociology. Gary Alan Fine (Ed.).

The Economics of Aging. James H. Schultz.

Race and Ethnicity in America: Meeting the Challenge in the 21st Century. Gail E. Thomas (Ed.).

Book Reviews

Review of Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime. Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins. Reviewed by William G. Archambeault, Louisiana State University.
William G. Archambeault

Review of The Prostitution of Sexuality. Kathleen Barry. Reviewed by Beth Cagan, Cleveland State University.
Beth Cagan

Review of Individual Voices, Collective Visions: Fifty Years of Women in Sociology. Ann Goetting and Sarah Fenstermaker (Eds). Reviewed by Karen E. Campbell, Vanderbilt University.
Karen E. Campbell

Review of The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence and the Future of America. Steven Fraser (Ed.) Reviewed by David Stoesz, Virginia Commonwealth University.
David Stoesz

Review of Politics and the Class Divide: Working People and the Middle Class Left. David Croteau. Reviewed by Charles M. Tolbert, Louisiana State University
Charles M. Tolbert

Review of The New Middle Classes: Life Styles, Status Claims and Political Orientations. Arthur J. Vidich (Ed.) Both books reviewed by Charles M. Tolbert, Louisiana State University
Charles M. Tolbert

Review of The Neutered Mother, the Sexual Family. Martha Albertson Fineman. Reviewed by Janice Wood Wetzel, Adelphi University.
Janice Wood Wetzel