Sociology's effects on America: The influence of sociological ideas on American culture / D.H. Wrong. Sociology's critical irony: countering American individualism / J.R. Gusfield
America's effects on sociology: External influences on sociology / N.J. Smelser. The curious importance of small groups in American sociology / A. Silver
Sociology and American public policy: Witnesses, engineers, or storytellers? Roles of sociologists in social policy / P. Marris. Sociology and nuclear war / W.A. Gamson.
Sociology and critical American issues: Sociological foundations of the civil rights movement / C.U. Smith, L.M. Killian. Definitions of the underclass: a critical analysis / R. Aponte. Political dimensions of the underclass concept / W.W. Stafford, J. Ladner. The wrong stuff: reflections on the place of gender in American sociology / R.W. Connell
Sociology and its constituencies: The cultural contradictions of teaching sociology / P.J. Baker, W.C. Rau. Organizations and sociology / M.W. Meyer
Sociology and social criticism: The virtues of dissent in sociology / L.A. Coser. Sociology for whom? criticism for whom? / T. Gitlin. Social criticism and sociological elitism / J. Moore. Born-again sociology / P.H. Rossi.
Foreign sociologists look at U.S. sociology: American sociology viewed from abroad / A. Touraine. General theory and American sociology / N. Luhmann. Notes on American sociology and American power / R.W. Connell
Sociology and the other social sciences: Sociology and history: producing comparative history / J.A. Goldstone. Sociology, economics, and the economy / H. Molotch
Appendix A: the Atlanta thematic sessions
Appendix B: sociology in American: the discipline and the public [from] American Sociological Association, 1988 presidential address / H. J. Gans.
