Contents
Introduction
On W. I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki
Opening of the Conference - James S. Coleman
Prologue - Robert McCormick Adams
How Sociological Theory Lost Its Central Issue and What Can Be Done About It - Siegwart Lindenberg
The Analysis of Diversity and the Diversity of Analysis - Morris Janowitz
The Hidden Issues: A New Agenda - Immanuel Wallerstein
General Discussion
Three Sociological Traditions: On Creating the Future While Creating the Past - Randall Collins
The Development of Scholasticism - Arthur L. Stinchcombe
Two Traditions: Substantive Analysis and Empirical Research - Edward Shils
General Discussion
Academic Market, Ideology, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge: Physiology in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany - Joseph Ben-David
Comment - Randall Collins
General Discussion
Social Network Theory - Edward O. Laumann and David Knoke
Comment - Ronald S. Burt
General Discussion
The California Gold Rush: Social Structure and Transaction Costs - Anthony Oberschall
Comment - Peter M. Blau
General Discussion
Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families - Gary S. Becker and Nigel Tomes
Comment - Russell Hardin
General Discussion
The Ecology of Organizations: Structural Inertia and Organizational Change - Michael T. Hannan and John Freeman
Comment - Howard Aldrich
General Discussion
Public Problems as Phenomena: The Shape of a Humanistic Social Science - Joseph R. Gusfield
Comment - John Kitsuse
General Discussion
Firm and Market Interfaces of Profit Center Control - Robert G. Eccles and Harrison C. White
Comment - John Padgett
General Discussion
Explaining the Origins of Welfare States: A Comparison of Britain and the United States, 1880s-1920s - Theda Skocpol and Ann Shola Orloff
Comment - Arthur Mann
Comment - David L. Featherman
General Discussion
Language Structure and Social Structure - William Labov
Comment - Allen Grimshaw
General Discussion
Modeling Symbolic Interaction - David R. Heise
Comment - Fred L. Strodtbeck
General Discussion
A Theory of Social Movements, Social Classes, and Castes - Mancur Olson
Comment - Michael Hechter
General Discussion
Micro Foundations and Macrosocial Theory - James S. Coleman
General Discussion
References
Contributors
Index