1. Editor’s column: “Incredible goings-on” —Max weber in Pennsylvania

   • Jonathan B. Imber

   EditorialNotes Pages: 3 - 6

2. The Amberst essays: Talcott parsons’s initial foray into sociology

   • Bruce Wearne

   Talcott Parsons’s Undergraduate Exploration In Sociology Pages: 8 - 12

3. The theory of human behavior in its individual and social aspects

   • Talcott Parsons

   Talcott Parsons’s Undergraduate Exploration In Sociology Pages: 13 - 23

4. A behavioristic conception of the nature of morals

   • Talcott Parsons

   Talcott Parsons’s Undergraduate Exploration In Sociology Pages: 24 - 37

5. The young parsons and the mature habermas

   • James J. Chriss

   Talcott Parsons’s Undergraduate Exploration In Sociology Pages: 38 - 40

6. Talcott parsons on economic and social theory: The relevance of the amherst term papers

   • Bryan S. Turner

   Talcott Parsons’s Undergraduate Exploration In Sociology Pages: 41 - 47

7. Beyond the myth of “radical breaks” in talcott parsons’s theory: An analysis of the amherst papers

   • Jens Kaalhauge Nielsen

   Talcott Parsons’s Undergraduate Exploration In Sociology Pages: 48 - 60

8. Edward Shils in memoriam

   • S. N. Eisenstadt

   Remembering Edward Shils (1910–1995) Pages: 61 - 66

9. Praxis pietatis: A tribute to Edward Shils

   • Liah Greenfeld

   Remembering Edward Shils (1910–1995) Pages: 67 - 82

10. Edward Shils

    • Steven Grosby

    Remembering Edward Shils (1910–1995) Pages: 83 - 87

11. The sociology of Robert E. Park

    • Edward Shils

    Remembering Edward Shils (1910–1995) Pages: 88 - 106

12. Review essay

    • Lawrence T. Nichols

    BookReview Pages: 107 - 113