Includes bibliographical references.

Canon and Anti-Canon for a Fragmented Discipline / Dan Clawson and Robert Zussman -- Best-Sellers by American Sociologists: An Exploratory Study / Herbert J. Gans -- On Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions - How to Become a Dominant American Social Scientist: The Case of Theda Skocpol / Jeff Goodwin -- On Charles Tilly, From Mobilization to Revolution - Historicization of Protest as a Route to General Theory: Stepping Back to Move Forward / Roger V. Gould -- On Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish - Discipline and Punish: The Birth of a Postmodern Middle-Range / Jonathan Simon -- On Charles Murray, Losing Ground - Charles Murray: Losing Ground, Gaining Power / Theodore J. Lowi and Gwendolyn Mink -- On Norman H. Nie, Dale H. Bent, and C. Hadlai Hull, SPSS - Doing It Ourselves / Barry Wellman -- On Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Culture - Geertz's Ambiguous Legacy / Ann Swidler --

On Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice - Sociology's Other Poststructuralism / Craig Calhoun -- On Gary Becker, A Treatise on the Family Gary Becker on the Family: His Genius, Impact, and Blind Spots / Paula England and Michelle J. Budig -- On Arlie Hochschild, The Managed Heart - Emotion Management as Emotional Labor / Lynn Smith-Lovin -- On David Featherman and Robert Hauser, Opportunity and Change - Models of Influence / David B. Grusky and Kim A. Weeden -- On Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital - A Classic of Its Time / Michael Burawoy -- On Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Men and Women of the Corporation - What's Gender Got to Do with It? / Christine L. Williams -- On Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World System - Promethean Sociology / Harriet Friedmann -- On William J. Wilson, The Declining Significance of Race - What's Race Got to Do with It? / Aldon Morris --

On Edward Said, Orientalism - Empire and Knowledge: More Troubles, New Opportunities for Sociology / Steven Seidman -- On Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering - The Gendering of Social Theory: Sociology and Its Discontents / Barbara Laslett -- On Boston's Women's Health Book Collective, Our Bodies, Ourselves - Feminist Subversions / Linda Gordon and Barrie Thorne -- Sociological Politics and Contemporary Sociology's Ten Most Influential Books / Gerald Marwell -- Taking the List as It Stands: What Does It Say about Sociology Today? / Rachel A. Rosenfeld -- Who's In? Who's Out? / Charles Lemert.