Alan S. Miller is Professor of behavioural Science at Hokkaido University, Japan and is an Affiliate Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. He has worked for the Environmental Sciences wing of the Science Applications International Corporation. Miller holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Washington. He is the author of over 20 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals concerned with the areas of crime and deviant behaviour, religion, and comparative social psychology.Satoshi Kanazawais Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He has written widely in the areas of social psychology, political sociology, marriage and the family, criminology, macrosociology, mathematical sociology, theory, and methodology. His recent articles have appeared in American Sociological Review,American Journal of Sociology,Social Forces, Journal of Politics, Sociological Theory, and Evolution and Human behaviour. Alan S. Miller is Professor of behavioural Science at Hokkaido University, Japan and is an Affiliate Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. He has worked for the Environmental Sciences wing of the Science Applications International Corporation. Miller holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Washington. He is the author of over 20 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals concerned with the areas of crime and deviant behaviour, religion, and comparative social psychology.Satoshi Kanazawais Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He has written widely in the areas of social psychology, political sociology, marriage and the family, criminology, macrosociology, mathematical sociology, theory, and methodology. His recent articles have appeared in American Sociological Review,American Journal of Sociology,Social Forces, Journal of Politics, Sociological Theory, and Evolution and Human behaviour.

• Theoretical Orientation -- Social Order and Social Control: An Introduction -- The Solidaristic Theory of Social Order -- Social Institutions -- The Education System: Social Initiation -- Work: A Continuation -- The Family -- Crime -- Nonintuitive Consequences -- Crime Revisited: White-Collar Crimes -- The Religious Landscape of Japan -- Trust -- Speculations and Conclusions -- The Emergence of Cooperative Social Institutions -- Conclusion