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WOMEN AGAINST PORNOGRAPHY
R. George Kirkpatrick, Louis A. ZurcherIn the last ten years, feminists in and out of the universities have developed a power‐ful critique of pornography as “the ideology of rape” and the “ideological justifica‐tion…
DOMESTIC LABOUR AND PATRIARCHY: THE IMPLICATIONS OF A STUDY IN THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND
Paul Close, Rosie CollinsEvidence from a study in Middlesborough is presented in favour of the proposition that an adequate analysis of domestic labour in modern society depends on taking into account its…
ACCOUNTING FOR THE SOCIAL DISTRIBUTION OF MILD MENTAL SUBNORMALITY: DETERMINISM, PROCESS AND STRUCTURE
Stuart MontgomeryThe more severe cases of mental subnormality have shown a fairly random social distribution, but mild subnormality is typically a lower‐class phenomenon. Various deterministic…
SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO MATHEMATICS
Richard StartupSome sociologists are more interested in using quantification as a source of legitima‐tion than in confronting mathematics as a central element of culture. Yet mathematics may be…
PERIPHERAL WAYWARDNESS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCOTTISH ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDIES
Peter G. MewettA detailed review of J. Ennew's The Western Isles Today, published by Cambridge University Press, 1980. The reviewer finds it to be a book that flounders on theoretical…
THE ECOLOGICAL VALIDITY OF RESEARCH IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Sandy HobbsThe author reviews four books which deal with a variety of aspects of developmental social psychology. Although they vary in the extent to which they can be recommend‐ed to the…
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