Pt. 1. Critiques of sociology
1. Anti-minotaur: the myth of a value-free sociology
2. The sociologist as partisan: sociology and the welfare state
3. Remembrance and renewal in sociology
4. The politics of the mind
5. Sociology
pt. 2. Backgrounds to sociology
6. Some observations on systematic theory, 1945-55
7. Reciprocity and autonomy in functional theory
8. The norm of reciprocity
9. The importance of something for nothing
10. Personal reality, social theory and the tragic dimension in science
11. Romanticism and classicism: deep structures in social science
pt. 3. Marxisms and sociology
12. Émile Durkheim and the critique of socialism
13. Sociology and Marxism
14. The Red Guard
15. Comments on History and class consciousness
16. The two Marxisms.