Spatial and social mobility

This paper analyzes the relationship between spatial mobility and social mobility. It develops a two‐skill‐type spatial equilibrium model of two regions with location preferences where each region consists of an urban area that is home to workplaces and residences and an exclusively residential suburban area. The paper demonstrates that relative regional social mobility is negatively correlated with segregation and inequality. In the model, segregation, income inequality, and social mobility are driven by differences between urban and residential areas in commuting cost differences between high‐skilled and low‐skilled workers, and also by the magnitude of taste heterogeneity.     

Literary and social criticism

John Docker, Australian Cultural Elites: Intellectual Traditions in Sydney and Melbourne, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1974, pp. xii + 182. $5.95, paper.     

Rural sociology and social change

Charles P. Loomis and J. Allan Beegle., A Strategy for Rural Change. New York: Halsted Press, 1975. xv + 525 pp. Tables, figures, references, author and subject indices. $19.50.     

Phenomenology and the social sciences

Edmund Husserl, Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy, edited with an introduction by Quentin Lauer, N.Y., Harper Torchbooks, 1965, pp. 192. Australian distributor, Book and Film Services. $A2.90, paper.

Edmund Husserl. Experience and Judgement, Investigations in a Geneology of Logic, revised and edited by Ludwig Landgrebe, translated with an introduction by James S. Churchill, London, Rout‐ledge and Kegan Paul, 1973, pp. xxvii + 443. Australian distributor, Cambridge University Press Australia. $A20.80, cloth.

Edo Pivcevic, Husserl and Phenomenology, London, Hutchinson University Library, 1970, pp. 160. Australian distributor, Hutchinson Australia. $A5.30 cloth, $A2.20 paper.

Werner Marx, Heidegger and the Tradition, Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1971, pp. xxxiii + 275. $US10.00, cloth.

Alfred Schutz, The Phenomenology of the Social World, translated by George Walsh and Frederick Lehnert, with an introduction by George Walsh, London, Heinemann Educational Books, 1972, pp. xxxii + 255. Australian distributor, Heinemann Educational Australia. $A11.20 cloth, $A5.60 paper.

Alfred Schutz and Thomas Luckmann, The Structures of the Life‐World, translated by Richard M. Zaner and H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr, London, Heinemann Educational Books, 1974, pp. xxx + 335. Australian distributor, Heinemann Educational Australia. $A12.80 cloth, $A6.55 paper.

Alfred Schutz, Reflections on the Problem of Relevance, edited, annotated and with an introduction by Richard M. Zaner, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1970, pp. xxiv + 186. Australian distributor, John Wiley and Sons. $A11.50, cloth.

Alfred Schutz, On Phenomenology and Social Relations. Selected Writings, edited with an introduction by Helmut R. Wagner, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1970, pp. 327. Australian distributor, John Wiley and Sons. $A15.80 cloth, $A3.95 paper.

Maurice Natanson, ed., Phenomenology and Social Reality. Essays in Memory of Alfred Schutz, The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1970, pp. 306, guilders 40.50.

Maurice Merleau‐Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception, translated by Colin Smith, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, sixth impression 1974, pp. xxi + 466. Australian distributor, Cambridge University Press Australia. $A19.60, cloth.

Maurice Merleau‐Ponty, Phenomenology, Language and Sociology. Selected Essays, edited with an introduction by John O'Neill, London, Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, 1974, pp. lxii + 352. Australian distributor, Heinemann Educational Australia. $A17.75 cloth, $A9.30 paper.

Maurice Merleau‐Ponty, Adventures of the Dialectic, translated by Joseph Bein, London, Heinemann Educational Books, 1974, pp. xxvii + 237. Australian distributor, Heinemann Educational Australia. $A9.60, cloth.

Joseph J. Kockelmans, ed., Phenomenology, The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl and Its Interpretation, N.Y., Doubleday and Co., Anchor Books, 1969, pp. 555. Australian stockists, Tudor Distributors. $A2.80, paper.

Hwa Yol Jung, ed., Existential Phenomenology and Political Theory. A Reader, Chicago, Henry Reg‐nery, 1972, pp. iv + 444. Australian distributor, Feffer and Simons. $US3.95.

Edward N. Lee and Maurice Mandelbaum, eds, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1969, pp. x + 265. Australian distributor, The Australia and New Zealand Book Company. $A9.60 cloth, $A3.55 paper.

Anthony Giddens, ed., Positivism and Sociology, London, Heinemann Educational Books, 1974, pp. x + 244. Australian distributor, Heinemann Educational Australia. $A11.20 cloth, $A5.25 paper.

George Psathas, ed., Phenomenological Sociology, Issues and Applications, N.Y., John Wiley and Sons, 1973, pp. x + 369. Australian distributor, John Wiley and Sons Australia. $A15.80, cloth.

James Edie, ed., Patterns of the Life World. Essays in Honour of John Wild, Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1970, pp. xi + 414. $US15.00, cloth.

Maurice Roche, Phenomenology, Language and the Social Sciences, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973, pp. x + 361. Australian distributor, Cambridge University Press Australia. $A18.40, cloth.     

Early Americans and their social environment

Recent studies, cast in a more or less populist vein, underestimate the accumulative impulse among early Americans. As in England at the time, land was recognized as property and scarce, not neutral and free. The pursuit of status by leaders drew ordinary people into the commoditizing of land and labor. Many to their detriment materially and psychologically were unable to fulfill the call. Commodity markets, though not up to subsequent levels, were important. Early Americans came close to recognizing the free self-regulating quality of markets. Countervailing forces and institutions in religion, local government and families, however limited, held back the drive for accumulation and power. Yet, economic growth and areal expansion were the chief forces keeping these overseas British societies together.