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Science 27 November 2009:
Vol. 326. no. 5957, pp. 1190 - 1191
DOI: 10.1126/science.1181550
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Sociology:

Asking About Origins

Gagan D. S. Sood

Social Structures by John Levi Martin Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2009. 408 pp. $39.50, £27.95. ISBN 9780691127118.

To consider how social relations structure individual behavior and vice versa, Martin examines relationships over scales ranging from families and gangs to armies and nation-states.

The reviewer is at the Department of History and Civilisation, European University Institute, Villa Schifanoia, Via Boccaccio 121, I-50133 Firenze, Italy.

E-mail: gsood{at}eui.eu

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