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AbstractHow might a male‐female attorney‐therapist team mediate between parents who were never married?

Sociologist tend now to shift their attention away from the meanings and expressive qualities of art and instead focus attention on the material and social conditions of art. This has resulted in a considerable advance in our understanding of the "peopled" arrangements that help to define the matrix of art production and consumption. However, the topic of art—and culture more generally—provides a unique opportunity for sociologists to investigate the connections between meanings and the social order and the way in which meanings penetrate all levels of that social order, including the level of individuals and that of the entire society. Recent scholarship that employs historical, and often quantitative, methods suggests that there are new developments along these lines.

This article presents an overall view of voluntary action groups in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico, a light industrial city of some 720,000 inhabitants. During 1983-84, 354 groups were identified, and 98 of them were studied in depth. Labor unions, cooperatives, neighborhood associations, and small savings clubs were found to be of substantial importance among lower income groups. Important re lationships were discovered between government and voluntary agencies, many of them competitive or co-optative. The paper includes some comparisons between Leon and Neuquen, Argentina, where the author studied voluntary associations in 1981-82.