List of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrologue: Social Theory as a VocationPart I Custodial Theory Work1 Note on Park, The Crowd and the Public 2 Max Weber's 1908 Note Regarding Simmel 3 Review of the Variorum Edition of Max Weber's Economy and Society 4 Taking the Measure of Auguste Comte 5 emile Durkheim, Univocalist Manque 6 Robert K. Merton On and In Ambivalence 7 Revisiting Georg Simmel 8 Simmel's Stranger and His Followers 9 Simmel and Parsons ReconstructedPart II Heuristic Theory Work: Internal to the Discipline10 The Concept of Cultural Integration 11 The Organism Metaphor in Sociology 12 The Concept of Rationality: From Kant to Weber 13 Rationality and Freedom, Weber and Beyond 14 Putting Voluntarism Back into a Voluntaristic Theory of Action 15 Ambiguity and Modernity: Engaging a Serendipitous Problem 16 Somatic Elements in Social Conflict 17 Reconfiguring Ethiopia's Nationhood in a Global EraPart III Heuristic Theory Work External to the Discipline18 Simmel as a Resource for Sociological Metatheory 19 Sociology after MacIntyre 20 Images and Assumptions in a Scholarly Domain: Ethiopian Studies 21 Missed Opportunities as a Diagnostic Issue:Ethiopia, 1960–2005 22 A Problem of Collective Identity 23 Modernity and Its Endless Discontents 24 Crises in Liberal EducationAppendixesA Syllabus: American Sociological Theory, 1900–1980 B Syllabus: Perspectives on Modern Social Theory C Syllabus: The Forms and Functions of Social Knowledge D Syllabus: Organizations of the Social Sciences E Organizing a Practicum in Social TheoryReferencesIndex