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10 yrs experience as Ed-in-Chief of a magazine that tries to present sociol to the layman is described. Ideological, editorial, & practical problems of Transaction are recounted & the growth of the magazine as a public voice is traced. Various shifts & changes are noted, eg, the changeover from a predominantly sociol'al to an interdisciplinary soc sci focus, the growing stress on topics of pol, sex, & religion, change in ownership, & the journal's penetration into mass book publication. As a business, Transaction has to please its readers. But soc sci is more than a business; it is an ideology & it has needs & makes representations of its own. "It is the driving passion for a world of peace & reason to which all soc sci must ultimately dedicate itself, despite the absence of any logical, formal mandate to do so." The magazine tries to bridge the gap between the mass COMM world & the elite sci'fic community by presenting "the big picture, as lived by small people." M. Maxfield.

Übersichtsbericht über den Forschungsstand zu Sozialen Bewegungen mit Bibliographie. Beschrieben wird die Entwicklung dieser Forschungsrichtung, ausgehend von der Untersuchung der Studentenrevolte bis hin zum Konzept der "Neuen Sozialen Bewegungen", mit dem Phänomene der Frauenbewegung, Bürgerinitiativen, Antikernkraftbewegung und sonstiger "alternativer" Bewegungen zu erfassen versucht wird. Es wird festgestellt, daß die Erforschung Sozialer Bewegungen zwar erst relativ spät in Deutschland einsetzte, sich aber jetzt zu einem wichtigen Feld innerhalb der klassischen Soziologie entwickelt und damit eine Tendenz zum Professionalismus einsetzt, die den bisherigen Schwerpunkt politischen Aktivismus ablöst. (psz)

Chapter 1. Introduction: the promise of biopsychosocial criminology for explaining the facts of crime -- Chapter 2. Sex differences in criminal behavior -- Chapter 3. Age differences in criminal behavior -- Chapter 4. Class differences in criminal behavior -- Chapter 5. Peer associations and social learning influences in criminal behavior -- Chapter 6. Social relationships, control, and criminal behavior -- Chapter 7. Stress and strain in criminal behavior -- Chapter 8. Criminal justice and law in criminal behavior and crime rates -- Chapter 9. Concluding remarks on the future of biosocial criminology.

This article reviews the state of the discipline of international relations. It starts from statements made by the editors in their editorial published in the first issue of this journal. The editors noted that there seemed to have been less adherence to positivism in international relations than in other areas of political science & that there was both more opposition to positivism & more methodological & epistemological openness in international relations than in political science generally. The article outlines the current state of the field, focusing on the rationalist mainstream & then on the reflectivist alternatives, before looking at social constructivism, seeing it as the likely acceptable alternative to rationalism in the mainstream literature of the next decade. It then turns to examine whether international relations is still an American social science, before looking at the situation in the UK. It concludes that the editors' comments were indeed accurate, but that the fact that there is both more opposition to positivism in international relations & more openness in the UK academic community does not mean that the mainstream US literature is anything like as open or pluralist. The UK community is indeed more able to develop theory relevant to the globalized world at the new millennium, but the US academic community still dominates the discipline. 48 References. Adapted from the source document.