Introduction & Chapter 1; Chapter 2. The Uses of History in Sociology; Chapter 3. Current Issues in Comparative Macrosociology; Chapter 4. Socialogical Ethnography Today; Chapter 5. The Quantitative Analysis of Large-Scale Data-Sets and Rational Action Theory; Chapter 6. Rational Action Theory for Sociology; Chapter 7. Causation, Statistics, and Sociology; Chapter 8. Class Analysis and the Reorientation of Class Theory; Chapter 9. Explaining Educational Differentials; Chapter 10. Social Class and the Differentiation of Employment Contracts; Chapter 11. Outline of a Theory of Social Mobility; Chapter 12. Sociology and the Probabilistic Revolution, 1830-1930

John H. Goldthorpe

`On Sociology is a path-breaking book...Goldthorpe's project has all the scope and reach of the postwar fuctionalist program of Parsons and Merton, but it is likely to be more successful precisely becuase it allows a substantial role for empirical scholarship and can therefore contain and encompass the ongoing quantitative revolution...It is not, then, altogether implausible that the publication of On Sociology will come to be seen as a turning point in the history of the discipline.' David Grusky & Matthew Di Carlo, Cornell University, European Sociological Review |d 8/6/01