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Dear Colleagues,

Volume 3 number 1 of Sociological Research Online was published
on 31 March 1998.  The contents are listed below for your
interest. There are also a number of aspects of the new issue
I would like to draw to your attention.

Following the call for papers on the broad theme of 'Social
Transformation' in the last issue of the journal, this issue
sees the publication of our first set of contributions around
this theme. Further articles in this area of sociological work
are welcomed from readers.

In conjunction with this, in this issue we are launching
another thematic collection, also entitled 'Social
Transformation'. As with our other thematic collections, this
brings together all the papers, reviews and research resources
we have previously published in this area.

There are also a set of brief essays or 'think-pieces' that
consider the 'Future of Sociology'.  We look forward to
publishing more such pieces reflecting on the future of the
dscipline world-wide in the next issue and I would like to
encourage readers to submit any further pieces in this area.

Another 'first' in this issue is our first article that exploits
the medium of video to illustrate its argument - Timothy
McGettigan's 'Reflections in an Unblinking Eye'.  Although this
article is complete as a text-based discussion, a series of
linked video clips enhance the argument.  Information on how to
view these, and how to download 'plug'-in' software if you
don't already have this, is included in a 'help' page attached
to the article.

I hope that you continue to enjoy Sociological Research Online
and of course that you will continue to consider the journal as
a possible outlet for your own research - simply post articles
on disk to the address in the signature below, or email them to
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.  I look forward to hearing
from you.

With best wishes,
Liz Stanley, Editor
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Volume 3: Number 1 - Contents

SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

Gerard Delanty
'Social Theory and European Transformation: Is there a European
Society?'

Anna Triandafyllidou and Anastasios Fotiou
'Sustainability and Modernity in the European Union: A Frame
Theory Approach to Policy-Making'


THE FUTURE OF SOCIOLOGY

Irwin Deutscher
'Sociological Practice: The Politics of Identities and Futures'

Tony Tam
'The Industrial Organization of Sociology'

Bogusia Temple
'Whose Future? Whose Sociology? A Response to Tam and Deutscher'


OTHER ARTICLES

Kenneth Prandy and Wendy Bottero
'The Use of Marriage Data to Measure the Social Order in
Nineteenth-Century Britain'

Timothy McGettigan
'Reflections in an Unblinking Eye: Negotiating Identity in the
Production of a Documentary' [includes video clips]

Wendy Cealey Harrison and John Hood-Williams
'More Varieties than Heinz: Social Categories and Sociality in
Humphries, Hammersley and Beyond'

Beth Humphries
'The Baby and the Bath Water: Hammersley, Cealey Harrison and
Hood-Williams and the Emancipatory Research Debate'

Jane Pilcher
'Gender Matters? Three Cohorts of Women Talking about Role
Reversal'

R. David Smith
'Social Structures and Chaos Theory'

Peter Lynn
'The British Crime Survey Sample: A response to Elliott and
Ellingworth'


REVIEWS

Greg Philo (editor): Media and Mental Distress
Reviewed by Meryl Aldridge

Alberto Melucci: Challenging Codes: Collective Action in the
Information Age
Reviewed by David Gilbert

Timo Piirainen: Towards a New Social Order in Russia:
Transforming Structures and Everyday Life

Vladimir Shlapentokh, Roman Levita and Mikhail Loiberg: From
Submission to Rebellion: The Provinces versus the Center in
Russia
Reviewed by Nick Manning

Bridget Fowler: Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Theory: Critical
Investigations
Reviewed by Patricia M. McDonough and Barbara Tobolowsky

Andy Merrifield and Erik Swyngedouw (editors): The Urbanization
of Injustice
Reviewed by Rosemary Mellor

Pat Mahony and Christine Zmroczek (editors): 'Working-Class'
Women's Perspectives on Social Class
Reviewed by Marilyn Porter

Sylvia Walby: Gender Transformations
Reviewed by Teresa Rees

Werner Sollors, Henry B. Cabot and Anne M. Cabot (editors):
Theories of Ethnicity: A Classical Reader
Reviewed by John Solomos

Jacki Gordon and Gillian Grant (editors): How We Feel: An
Insight into the Emotional World of Teenagers
Reviewed by Johanna Wyn


RESEARCH RESOURCE

Helen Pickering
Scottish Collaborative On-demand Publishing Enterprise (SCOPE)

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