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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- PART I CONTINGENCY THEORY -- 1 'Organization Design: An Information Processing View', Interfaces, 4, pp. 28-36. -- 2 'Organizational Structure, Environment and Performance: The Role of Strategic Choice', Sociology, 6, pp. 1-22. -- 3 'Alternative Forms of Fit in Contingency Theory', Administrative Science Quarterly 30, pp. 514-39. -- 4 'Organizational Structures in Japanese and U.S. Manufacturing', Administrative Science Quarterly, 31, pp. 338-64. -- PART II RESOURCE DEPENDENCE THEORY

"Sociology in Action is an introductory text that prompts students to DO sociology through real-world activities that emphasizes hands-on work, application, and learning by example. Each chapter explains sociology's key concepts and theories, and pairs that foundational coverage with a series of carefully-developed learning activities and thought-provoking questions. Instructors choose the activities that will best engage their students, fit the format of their course, and meet their course goals"--

The establishment of organized social science -- An improbable science -- Sociology and other disciplines in the making -- The metamorphoses of Durkheimian scholarship -- Pioneers by default? -- Cycles of expansion and field transformations -- Intellectual styles and the dynamics of research groups