Introduction

Judith Burnett, Syd Jeffers, Graham Thomas

1-13

Sociology and the sociological imagination

reflections on, disciplinarity and intellectual specialisation

John Scott

14-30

Nouns and verbs

old and new strategies for sociology

Michael Rustin

31-53

Sociological theory

still going wrong?

Gregor McLennan

54-71

A plea for earthly sciences

Bruno Latour

72-84

Complexity, "nature" and social domination

towards a sociology of species relations

Erika Cudworth

85-104

The death of history in British sociology

presentism, intellectual entrepreneurship, and the conundra of historical consciousness

David Inglis

105-124

Sociology and post-colonialism

another "missing" revolution?

Bhambra

125-140

Towards a multiplication of specialised assemblages of territory, authority, and rights

Saskia Sassen

141-153

The changing life-course in British sociology

Gayle Letherby

154-172

Aspirations and opportunities

a career in sociology

Michael Banton

173-179

Cracking the Ivory tower

proposing "an interpretive public sociology"

Max Farrar

180-203

Sand in the machine

encouraging academic activism with sociology he students today

Joyce E. Canaan

204-232

The sociological imagination as popular culture

David Beer, Roger Burrows

233-252