Book reviewed in this article:JEAN STOCKARD and MARIAN M. JOHNSON, Sex Roles: Sex Inequality and Sex Role Development.MARGRIT EICHLER, The Double Standard: A Feminist Critique of Feminist Social Science.ALICE M. YOHALEM, The Careers of Professional Women: Commitment and Conflict.MARTIN KING WHYTE, The Status of Women in Preindustrial SocietiesJACQUES DONZELOT, The Policing of Families. Toronto: Random House of CanadaSHANKAR A. YELAJA (ed.), Canadian Social Policy. Waterloo: Wilfred LaurierGAYLENE BECKER, Growing Old in Silence. Berkeley, Los Angeles and LondonELLIOTT A. KRAUSE. Power and Illness. The Political Sociology of Health and MedicalTHEDA SKOCPOL, States and Social Revolutions, NY: CambridgeVINCENT WRIGHT, The Government and Politics of France. LondonJOHN McCALLUM, Unequal Beginnings: Agriculture and Economic Development in Quebec and Ontario Until 1870. TorontoDOUG OWRAM, Promise of Eden: The Canadian Expansionist Movement and the Idea of the West, 1856–1900. TorontoJ. RICK PONTING and ROGER GIBBINS, Out of Irrelevance: A Socio‐Political Introduction to Indian Affairs in Canada. TorontoROBERT A. SCOTT and ARNOLD R. SHORE, Why Sociology Does Not Apply: A Study of the Use of Sociology in Public Policy.WILLIAM SKIDMORE, Theoretical Thinking in Sociology (2nd ed.). Cambridge: CambridgeJAMES A. SCHELLENBERG, Masters of Social Psychology. New YorkGREGORY BAUM (ed) Sociology and Human Destiny: Essays on Sociology, Religion and Society. New YorkEDWARD A. MAZIARZ (ed.), Value and Values in Evolution. New YorkBRYAN R. WILSON, The Noble Savages: The Primitive Origins of Charisma and its Contemporary Survival. Berkeley, Los Angeles, LondonARON HOROWTIZ, Striking Roots: Reflections on Five Decades of Jewish Life. OakvillePIERRE CLICHE, Espace Social et Mobilité Residentielle. Québec: Les Presse