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List of contents
Introduction
Introduction: The Intellectual Contributions of James S. Coleman by Aage B. Sørensen and Seymour Spilerman
Policy-Relevant Social TheoryThe Individual as Participant in Political Exchange by James Buchanan
The Conditions of Fruitfulness of Theorizing about Mechanisms in Social Science by Arthur L. Stinchcombe
Beyond the Alternative between the Homo Sociologicus and the Homo Oeconomicus: Toward a Theory of Cold Beliefs by Raymond Boudon
Organizational Puzzles by Gordon Tullock
Rational Models of Charismatic Influence by Benjamin D. Zablocki
Hobbes and Coleman by Gudmund Hernes
Sociology of EducationEducational Goals and Political Plans by Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The Coleman Reports and American Education by Diane Ravitch
Games with Simulated Environments: Educational Innovation and Research Technology by Sarane Boocock
Social Structure and Social PolicyWealth, Intergenerational Transfers and Life Chances by Seymour Spilerman
The Production of Social Order with Special Reference to Contemporary Japan by Michael Hechter and Satoshi Kanazawa
Two Americas, Two Value Systems: Blacks and Whites by Seymour Martin Lipset
The Practice of Sociology in Public Affairs by Erik Van Hove
Rationality without Responsibility? A Dynamic Model of Responsible Behavior by Henrik Kreutz
About the author
AAGE B. SORENSEN is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. He is coeditor of
Human Development and the Life Course and author of numerous articles and books in Europe and the United States.
SEYMOUR SPILERMAN is Julian C. Levi Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. He has published extensively in the fields stratitization, collective violence, and mathematical sociology.
