• Introduction; 1. Rationality and social structure: an introduction; Part I. Stratification: 2. Agricultural enterprise and rural class relations; 3. Some empirical consequences of the Davis–Moore theory of stratification; 4. Interdependence and inequality: a specification of the Davis–Moore theory; 5. Marxist theories of power and empirical research; 6. Social mobility in industrial labor markets; 7. The sociology of ethnic loyalties; 8. The deep structure of moral categories, eighteenth-century French stratification and the Revolution; Part II. Organizations: 9. Bureaucratic and craft administration of production: a comparative study; 10. Social structure and the founding of organizations; 11. On social factors in administrative organization; 12. Norms of exchange; Part III. Sociology as a Profession: 13. On getting 'hung up' and other assorted illnesses; 14. Review of Max Weber's Economy and Society; 15. Merton's theory of social structure; 16. A structural analysis of sociology; 17. The mathematical biology of survey research centres; 18. On journal editing as a probabilistic process; 19. Should sociologists forget their mothers and fathers?; Bibliography; Name and place-name index; Subject index.

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