1. Editor’s introduction: Literature and professional practices

   • Lawrence T. Nichols

   EditorialNotes Pages: 3 - 4

2. “Status! Yes!”: Tom Wolfe as a sociological thinker

   • Joel Best

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 22

3. Sociologists as characters in twentieth-century novels

   • Diane Bjorklund

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 41

4. Sociologists on trial: Theoretical competition and juror reasoning

   • Mark Peyrot
   • Stacy Lee Burns

   OriginalPaper Pages: 42 - 69

5. The professional ideology of social pathologists transformed: The new political orthodoxy in sociology

   • Myles J. Kelleher

   OriginalPaper Pages: 70 - 88

6. Ceremonial degradation of a doctoral candidate: An essay on the social situation of graduate student ethnographers and other inmates

   • Norman Conti

   OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 97

7. Recent trends in faculty employment in sociology

   • Patricia M. Odeix
   • Kathleen Odell Korgen
   • Alejandro del Carmen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 98 - 106

8. In memoriam: Athena Theodore (1919–2001)

   • Jane Knowles Webb

   OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 108