Prologue : constructed social organization / James S. Coleman. Comments / Michael Hechter, Susan P. Shapiro
Moebius-strip organizations and open labor markets : some consequences of the reintegration of conception and execution in a volatile economy / Charles Sabel. Comments / Richard Biernacki, David Stark
The future of bureaucracy and hierarchy in organizational theory : a report from the field / Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Comments / Peter Hedström, Edward O. Laumann
Indirect relationships and imagined communities : large-scale social integration and the transformation of everyday life / Craig Calhoun. Comments / Gudmund Hernes, Edward Shils
Social structure, institutions, and cultural goods : the case of the United States / Paul DiMaggio. Comments / Wendy Griswold, Richard A. Peterson.
The new and the old in religion / Thomas Luckmann. Comments / Andrew Greeley, Seymour Martin Lipset
Families, childrearing, and education : opening remarks / Charles E. Bidwell
Institutions and human capital development / Mary C. Brinton
Individuals, institutions, and academic achievement / James W. Stigler
On the individualistic theory of social order / Alessandro Pizzorno. Comments / Rogers Brubaker, Donald N. Levine
Discretion, institutions, and the problem of government commitment / Kenneth A. Shepsle. Comments / Russell Hardin
Law without accidents / Kim Lane Scheppele. Comments / Jack Goldstone, Michael Hechter
Bounded states in a global market : the uses of international labor migrations / Aristide R. Zolberg. Comments / Charles C. Ragin, George Steinmetz
Intellectuals and domination in post-Communist societies / George Konrad and Ivan Szelenyi. Comments / Seymour Martin Lipset, Klemens Szaniawski.
Epilogue : on the possibility of a field of world sociology / Pierre Bourdieu.