Social theory and social structure

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pt. I. Sociological theory

I. Manifest and latent functions

II. The bearing of sociological theory on empirical research

III. The bearing of empirical research on sociological theory

pt. II. Studies in social and cultural structure

Introduction

IV. Social structure and anomie

V. Continuities in the theory of social structure and anomie

VI. Bureaucratic structure and personality

VII. Role of the intellectual in public bureaucracy

VIII. Contributions to the theory of reference group behavior (with Alice S. Rossi)

IX. Continuities in the theory of reference groups and social structure

X. Patterns of influence : local and cosmopolitan influentials

XI. The self-fulfilling prophecy

pt. III. The sociology of knowledge and mass communications

Introduction

XII. The sociology of knowledge

XIII. Karl Mannheim and the sociology of knowledge

XIV. Studies in radio and film propaganda (with Paul F. Lazarsfeld

pt. IV. Studies in the sociology of science

Introduction

XV. Science and the social order

XVI. Science and democratic social structure

XVII. The machine, the worker, and the engineer

XVIII. Puritanism, pietism, and science

XIX. Science and economy of 17th century England