Table of Contents:
  • The micro-sociological challenge of macro-sociology / K. Knorr-Cetina
  • Notes on the integration of micro- and macro-levels of analysis / A.V. Cicourel
  • Micro-translation as a theory-building strategy / R. Collins
  • Intermediate steps between micro- and macro-integration / T. Duster
  • Philosophical aspects of the micro-macro problem / R. Harrè
  • Agency, institution and time-space analysis / A. Giddens
  • Social ritual and relative truth in natural language / G. Fauconnier
  • Transformational theory and the internal environment of action systems / V. Lidz
  • Communication about law in interaction systems / N. Luhmann
  • Toward a reconstruction of historical materialism / J. Habermas
  • Unscrewing the big Leviathan / M. Callon and B. Latour
  • Men and machines / P. Bourdieu