1. Theoretical and political perspectives

   • Lawrence T. Nichols

   EditorialNotes Pages: 3 - 4

2. Worlds come apart: Systems theory versus critical theory. Drama in the history of sociology in the twentieth century

   • Uta Gerhardt

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 39

3. Dialectical sociology in Québec: About and around Michel Freitag’s dialectique et société

   • Jean-François Côté
   • Daniel Dagenais

   OriginalPaper Pages: 40 - 56

4. Prophetic versus priestly sociology: The salient case study of Arthur K. Davis

   • David A. Nock

   OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 85

5. Bernard Barber’s social system theory

   • Bruce C. Wearne

   OriginalPaper Pages: 86 - 104

6. Much ado about Goffman

   • Norman K. Denzin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 117

7. Reflections on Riesman

   • Irving Louis Horowitz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 118 - 122

8. From vice cop to sociology prof.: A long journey to a familiar place

   • James J. Nolan III

   OriginalPaper Pages: 123 - 129