September 2007, Volume 50, No. 3


EDITORIAL NOTE

ARTICLES

Maarten H. J. Wolbers
Patterns of Labour Market Entry: A comparative perspective on school-to-work transitions in eleven European countries

Michelle Jackson, Robert Erikson, John H Goldthorpe and Meir Yaish
Primary and Secondary Effects in Class Differentials in Educational Attainment:
the Transition to A--Level Courses in England and Wales

Osmo Kivinen, Juha Hedman and Päivi Kaipainen
From Elite University to Mass Higher Education: Educational Expansion, Equality of Opportunity and Returns to University Education

Dietmar Rauch
Is There Really a Scandinavian Social Service Model? A Comparison of Childcare and Elderlycare in Six European Countries

Mikaela Sundberg
Mobilizing Networks: Researcher Roles in Atmospheric Science

Thomas Kurtz
Sociological Theory and Sociological Practice

Thomas Olesen
The Porous Public and the Transnational Dialectic: The Muhammed Cartoons Conflict

Kaspar Villadsen
The Emergence of 'Neo-Philanthropy' - A new discursive space in welfare policy?

Pekka Sulkunen
Re-inventing the Social Contract

BOOK REVIEWS

Jeffrey C. Alexander, Bernhard Giesen, and Jason L. Mast (eds):
Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual

Reviewed by Valerio Bacak
Bengt Furåker: Sociological Perspectives on Labor Markets

Reviewed by John MacInnes
Nico Stehr: Knowledge Politics: Governing the Consequences of Science and Technology
Reviewed by Anders Blok

Håkan Thörn: Anti-Apartheid and the Emergence of a Global Civil Society
Reviewed by Jan Aart Scholte


LIST OF INCOMING BOOKS