1. Editor’s inaugural statement

   • Lawrence T. Nichols

   EditorialNotes Pages: 3 - 6

2. Fated to be a professor?

   • Dennis H. Wrong

   Articles Pages: 7 - 15

3. Rethinking sociology: Applied and basic research

   • William Foote Whyte

   Articles Pages: 16 - 19

4. Two deadly diseases and one nearly fatal cure: The sorry state of American sociology

   • Larry T. Reynolds

   Articles Pages: 20 - 37

5. Comparative studies and sociological theory: Autobiographical notes

   • S. N. Eisenstadt

   Articles Pages: 38 - 58

6. Michael Polanyi and the sociology of a free society

   • Louis H. Swartz

   Articles Pages: 59 - 70

7. Caroline Bartlett Crane and the history of sociology: Salvation, sanitation, and the social gospel

   • Linda J. Rynbrandt

   Research Articles Pages: 71 - 82

8. Different habits, different hearts: The moral languages of the culture war

   • Lene Arnett Jensen

   Research Articles Pages: 83 - 101

9. The American Sociological Association dues structure

   • David N. Laband
   • Richard O. Beil

   Research Note Pages: 102 - 106