David R. Maines is Associate Professor of Sociology at Pennsylvania State University. His work has focused on articulating issues of social organization and social struc[1]ture from an interactionist perspective as weil as the fundamental relevance of temporality and communication for the development of social theory. He is the current Editor of the journal Symbolic lnteraction, and his recent books include Communication and Social Structure (with Carl Couch), Friendship in Context (with Helena Z. Lopata), and Jndustrialization as an Agent of Social Change: A Critical Analysis by Herbert Blumer (with Thomas J. Morrione). His current research focuses on the narrative aspects of social life

• PART I. INTRODUCTION 1. Reflections, Framings, and Appreciations 2. In Honor of Anselm Strauss: Collaboration 3. Anselm Strauss: An Intellectual Biography PART II. IDENTITIES AND THE DEVELOPING PERSON4. Children's Conceptions of Money: Concepts and Social Organization 5. On the Empirical Investigation of Self-Concepts 6. Turning Points and Fictional Identities 7. Affirming Social Value: Women without Children 8. Identity Ambivalence in Clothing: The Dialectic of the Erotic and the Chaste PART III. SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND SOCIAL WORLDS 9. Social Worlds/Arenas Theory as Organizational Theory 10. AIDS and Outreach Work 11. Arenas and Careers: The Complex Interweaving of Personal and Organizational Destiny 12. The Urban Milieu: Locales, Public Sociability, and Moral Concern 13. On Methods, Ontologies, and Representation in the Sociology of Science: Where do We Stand? 14. Reaching the Invisible: A Case Study of Experimental Work in Microbiology (1880-1900); Portrait of Anselm L. Strauss; Conversation with Anselm L. Strauss PART IV. METHODS, ANALYSIS, AND THEORY 15. The Sociology of the Invisible: The Primacy of Work in the Writings of Anselm Strauss 16. Supplementing Grounded Theory 17. Dimensional Analysis: Notes on an Alternative Approach to the Grounding of Theory in Qualitative Research 18. Wandering through the Caves: Phenomenological Field Research in a Social World of Dementia 19. Trajectory as a Basic Theoretical Concept for Analyzing Suffering and Disorderly Social Processes 20. Trajectory as Intended Fragment: The Critique of Empirical Reason According to Anselm Strauss 21. Reality of Social Worlds and Trajectories of Working; The Scholarly Writings of Anselm L. Strauss