1. Editor’s introduction: Reflections — theoretical and personal

   • Lawrence T. Nichols

   EditorialNotes Pages: 3 - 3

2. Some remarks on Talcott Parsons’s family

   • Charles Parsons

   OriginalPaper Pages: 4 - 22

3. Merton as a general theorist: Structures, choices, mechanisms, and consequences

   • Charles Crothers

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 36

4. The quality of life concept in sociology

   • Abbott L. Ferriss

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 51

5. The journal of the history of sociology: Its origins and scope

   • Jack Nusan Porter

   OriginalPaper Pages: 52 - 63

6. Geezer talk: An emeritus professor looks back

   • Bennett M. Berger

   OriginalPaper Pages: 64 - 70