Editor’s introduction: An invitation to historical sociology Lawrence T. Nichols EditorialNotes Pages: 3 - 3
Contested canon: Simmel scholarship at Columbia and the new school Gary D. Jaworski Article Pages: 4 - 16
The “fragment” on Simmel [from draft Chapter XVIII (structure of social action): Georg Simmel and Ferdinand Toennies: Social relationships and the elements of action] Talcott Parsons Article Pages: 21 - 30
Comments on Parsons’s “Simmel and the methodological problems of formal sociology” Edward Shils Article Pages: 51 - 56
From the “missing fragment” to the “lost manuscript ”: Reflections on Parsons’s engagement with Simmel William J. Buxton Article Pages: 57 - 76
Parsons’s second project: The social system. Sources, development and limitations Bernard Barber Article Pages: 77 - 82
Social relations undone: Disciplinary divergence and departmental politics at Harvard, 1946–1970 Lawrence T. Nichols Article Pages: 83 - 107