Preface to the Japanese translation
Preface to the revised edition
Words of thanks

Introduction
Section 1: Integration of social theory and social research
Section 2: Systematic organization of sociological theory

Part 1: Sociological theory

I: Manifest and latent functions – for a systematic organization of functional analysis in sociology
Section 1: Vocabulary of functional analysis
Section 2: Postulates commonly used in functional analysis
Section 3: Functional analysis as ideology
Section 4: Procedural logic
Section 5: Paradigms of functional analysis in sociology
Section 6: Topics to which functional analysis can be applied
Section 7: Manifest and latent functions
Conclusion
Supplementary literature

II: Significance of sociological theory for empirical research
Section 1: Methodology
Section 2: General sociological approach
Section 3: Analysis of sociological concepts
Section 4: Sociological post-interpretation
Section 5: Empirical generalization in sociology
Section 6: Sociological theory
Section 7: Formative derivation and systematic organization

III: The significance of empirical research for sociological theory – the theoretical function of research
Section 1: Excavation type
Section 2: Reworking the theory
Section 3: Shifting the theoretical focus
Section 4: Clarification of concepts

Part 2: Studies of social and cultural structures
Introduction

IV: Social structure and anomie
Section 1: Types of cultural goals and institutional norms
Section 2: Typology of personal adaptation patterns
Section 3: Tendency to anomie
Section 4: Role of the family
Conclusion

V: Social structure and anomie (continued)
Section 1: Expanded concept of anomie
Section 2: Signs of anomie
Section Section 3: The theme of success in American culture
Section 4: Various aspects of the assimilation of success values
Section 5: Forms of anomie and deviant behavior
Section 6: Changes in social structure and deviant behavior

VI: The structure of bureaucracy and personality
Section 1: The structure of bureaucracy
Section 2: Dysfunctions of bureaucracy
Section 3: Structural sources of excessive conformity
Section 4: Primary relations versus secondary relations
Section 5: Issues requiring research

VII: The role of intellectuals in public bureaucracy
Section 1: Intellectuals as a type of occupation
Section 2: The status of intellectuals and social policy
Section 3: Intellectuals who belong to the bureaucracy and those who do not
Section 4: The role of intellectuals in public bureaucracy Replenishing intellectuals

Section 5: Status and visibility within the bureaucracy

Section 6: Policy makers and intellectuals

Section 7: Frustration of intellectuals belonging to the bureaucracy

VIII: Theory of reference group behavior

Section 1: The concept of relative dissatisfaction

Section 2: Relative dissatisfaction or relative dissatisfaction?

Section 3: Belonging groups as reference groups

Section 4: Multiple reference groups

Section 5: Uniformity of behavior derived from reference group theory

Section 6: Statistical indicators of social structure

Section 7: Reference group theory and social mobility

Section 8: Psychological function and social function

Section 9: Analogous concepts in reference group theory

IX: Theory of reference groups and social structure (continued)——Problems with reference group theory

Section 1: Basic concepts

Section 2: Selection of reference group—its Determinants
Section 3: Reference group behavior – its structural elements
Section 4: Consequences of reference group behavior

X: Types of influence – local and cosmopolitan influencers
Section 1: The shift from applied research to theoretical research
Section 2: Types of influencers – local and cosmopolitan
Section 3: The structure of social relations
Section 4: Channels of interpersonal influence
Section 5: Social status in action – interpersonal influence
Section 6: Communicative behavior of influencers
Section 7: Types of reciprocal evaluation
Section 8: Influencers and influenced
Section 9: Monomorphic and polymorphic spheres of influence
Section 10: Appendix: A tentative concept of interpersonal influence

XI: Self-fulfilling prophecy
Section 1: Thomas’s axioms
Section 2: Sociological fables
Section 3: Section Social beliefs and social reality
Section 4 In-group virtues and out-group vices
Section 5 Social functions and dysfunctions
Section 6 Planned institutional change

Part 3 Sociology of knowledge and mass communication
Introduction
Comparison of sociology of knowledge and mass communication research

XII Sociology of knowledge
Section 1 Social context
Section 2 Paradigms of sociology of knowledge
Section 3 Foundations of existence
Section 4 Types of knowledge
Section 5 Relationship between knowledge and foundations of existence
Section 6 Functions of knowledge constrained by existence
Section 7 Future issues and recent research

XIII Karl Mannheim and sociology of knowledge
Section 1 Theoretical antecedents
Section 2 Theory of ideology
Section 3 Substantive theorems
Section 4 Types of knowledge
Section 5 The connection between knowledge and society
Section 6 Relativism

XIV Studies of radio and film propaganda
Section 1 Modes of propaganda analysis
Section 2 Content analysis
Section 3 Response analysis
Section 4 Technical or factual propaganda

Part 4 Sociology of science
Introduction

XV Science and social order
Section 1 Sources of hostility towards science
Section 2 Social pressures on the autonomy of science
Section 3 Function of the norms of pure science
Section 4 Esoteric science as popular mysticism
Section 5 Public hostility towards systematic skepticism
Section 6 Conclusion

XVI Science and democratic social structures
Section 1 Science and society
Section 2 The ethos of science
Section 3 Public domain
Section 4 Transcendence of interests
Section 5 Systematic skepticism

X VII Machines, workers, and engineers
Section 1: Social consequences of technological change
Section 2: Implications for engineers
Section 3: The need for social research

XVIII: Puritanism, Pietism, and science
Section 1: The ethos of Puritanism
Section 2: Puritanism’s influence on science
Section 3: The influence of the Puritans on science education
Section 4: Puritanism and the integration of values ​​in science
Section 5: Pietism and the integration of values ​​in science
Section 6: Religious affiliation of scientists
Supplementary bibliography

XIX: Science and economy in 17th-century England
Section 1: Formulation of the problem
Section 2: Transportation and science
Section 3: An example: the problem of longitude
Section 4: Navigation and science
Section 5: The scope of economic influence

Translator’s afterword
Bibliography
Subject index
Personal index