1. Editor’s comments

   • Richard H. Hall

   EditorialNotes Pages: 3 - 4

2. The demographic transformation and the sociological enterprise

   • Maxine Baca Zinn
   • D. Stanley Eitzen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 12

3. When job “openings” weren’t: Estimates of the extent of informal network hiring in sociology, 1965–1972

   • Richard A. Wright

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 15

4. Sociologists, social policy and the Estranged poor: The selective inattention to the limits of success

   • Richard H. P. Mendes

   OriginalPaper Pages: 16 - 36

5. Theory-bashing and answer-improving in the study of social movements

   • John Lofland

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 58

6. Sociological theory: A case of multiple personality disorder

   • Janet Saltzman Chafetz

   A Symposium—Positivism Again Pages: 59 - 62

7. Talmudic exegesis or identification with the aggressor?

   • Charles Camic

   A Symposium—Positivism Again Pages: 63 - 65

8. On Chafetz on theory

   • James D. Miley

   A Symposium—Positivism Again Pages: 66 - 66

9. What Disorder? A response to Chafetz

   • Charles W. Smith

   A Symposium—Positivism Again Pages: 67 - 68

10. Creative disorder: A response to Chafetz

    • Bert N. Adams

    A Symposium—Positivism Again Pages: 69 - 70

11. Does Chafetz need any defense?: All over but the shouting

    • David Sciulli

    A Symposium—Positivism Again Pages: 71 - 72

12. The editors talk

    • Keith Doubt
    • Richard Moodey

    A Symposium—Positivism Again Pages: 73 - 74