Introduction

1-9

Religious faith in an intellectual's world

13-28

Reason and the individual

the Kantian unity

29-45

The Nietzschean challenge

46-61

The scientist in search of salvation

62-77

Towards a science of social reality

78-94

The scholarly and polemical context

97-114

The meaning of rationality

115-134

From premises to constructs

modelling social life

135-157

The structure of collective action

158-176

The historical development of rationality

177-196

Understanding and social structure

199-226

The empirical study of values

227-246

Society and the market

247-269

Conclusion

from social theory to sociology

Amy E. Varela

271-289