1. Editor's note

   EditorialNotes Pages: 359 - 359

2. Georg Simmel reconsidered

   • Albert Salomon
   • D. Jaworski

   The Cultures of Sociology and the Sociologies of Culture Pages: 361 - 378

3. Straight thinking about queer theory

   • Guy Oakes

   The Cultures of Sociology and the Sociologies of Culture Pages: 379 - 388

4. Simmel in early American sociology: Translation as social action

   • Gary Dean Jaworski

   The Cultures of Sociology and the Sociologies of Culture Pages: 389 - 417

5. From difference to exclusion: multiculturalism and postcolonialism

   • Amaryll Chanady

   Multi-Culture/Music Culture: Two Studies Pages: 419 - 437

6. Musical responses to oppression and alienation: Blues, spirituals, secular thrash, and Christian thrash metal music

   • Charles M. Brown

   Multi-Culture/Music Culture: Two Studies Pages: 439 - 452

7. The Philosophical origin of the black-white system of Chinese painting

   • Dongfang Hu

   Innovations and Legitimation in East Asian Cultural Formations Pages: 453 - 465

8. Adaptation and resistance to Chinese literary hegemony: Korea and Japan

   • K. Peter Takayama

   Innovations and Legitimation in East Asian Cultural Formations Pages: 467 - 488

9. Unconstrained Freehand Cursive Script: A revolution in Chinese calligraphic art

   • Jia Chen
   • Kwong Lum

   Innovations and Legitimation in East Asian Cultural Formations Pages: 489 - 497

10. Atomic bombs and American democracy

    • Arthur J. Vidich

    The Culture of the Cold War: A Symposium Pages: 499 - 506

11. Reason and unreason in Civil Defense

    • John Lukacs

    The Culture of the Cold War: A Symposium Pages: 507 - 510

12. Gullible leaders and followers

    • Franco Ferrarotti

    The Culture of the Cold War: A Symposium Pages: 511 - 516