Book reviewed in this article:Frontiers of Social Theory: The New Synthesis, edited by George Ritzer. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990, 434 pages, $49.50, hardback, $19.50, paper.Courts and the Poor, by Christopher E. Smith. Chicago: Nelson Hall, Inc., Publishers, 1991, 177 pages, $26.95, hardbound, $15.95, paper.Social Structure and Self‐Direction, by Melvin L. Kohn and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1990, 301 pages, $39.95, hardback.Organizations: Structures, Processes, and Outcomes, by Richard H. Hall. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1991, 5th ed., 344 pages, $31.35, hardback.Toward an Ethic Of Higher Education, by Mortimer R. Kadish. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991, 188 pages, $29.50, hardback.Of Human Bonding: Parent‐Child Relations Across the Life Course, by Alice S. Rossi and Peter H. Rossi. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 1990, 542 pages, $62.95 cloth, $39.95 pa