BOOK REVIEWS

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Book reviewed in this article: A Social‐Contract Theory of Organizations. Michael Keeley. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988, 245 pp. plus references and index. Disturbing the Nest: Family Change and Decline in Modern Societies. David Popenoe. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1988, 390 pages, $49.95, hardback, $24.95, cloth. Advancing Communication Science: Merging Mass and Interpersonal Processes. Edited by Robert P. Hawkins, John M. Wieman, and Suzanne Pingree. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1988, 312 pp., paperback. On the Take: From Petty Crooks to Presidents, 2nd ed. William Chambliss. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988, 301 pages. Methodology and Epistemology for Social Science. Donald T. Campbell. Selected papers edited by E. Samuel Overman. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988, 609 pages, $62.50, cloth. Technology and Justice. George Grant. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986, 133 pages, paperback. Emile Durkheim and the Reformation of Sociology. Stjepan G. Mestrovic. Totawa, NJ: Rowan and Littlefield, 1988, 156 pp. Certainties and Doubts: Collected Papers, 1962–1985. George Caspar Homans. New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1987, 420 pages, $34.95, hardback. Strong Mothers, Weak Wives. Miriam Johnson. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988, 347 pp. Jürgen Habermas. Michael Pusey. London: Tavistock Publications, 1987, 128 pages, paperback; and New York: Routledge, 1988, $22.50, cloth, Can. $31.50; $8.95, paperback, Can. $13.00. The World We Created at Hamilton High. Gerald Grant. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988, 2825 pages, $24.95, hardback