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Chapter 1. Introduction: The Roots and Fruits of Population Growth and Social Structures: Demographic and Sociological Vistas (Jon Anson) -- Part 1: Demography and Social Structure -- Chapter 2. The Demographic Transition in the Nasa Indigenous People and Black Populations of Northern Cauca (Colombia) (Fernando Urrea-Giraldo) -- Chapter 3. Intermarriage and Assimilation Among Arabs in the United States: Estimates, Causes, and Trends, 1990-2010 (Andrzej Kulczycki) -- Chapter 4. Occupational Classes of Immigrants and their descendants in East-Germany (Oliver Winkler) -- Chapter 5. Violence, Firearms and Life Expectancy In Mexico (Guillermo Julián González-Pérez) -- Part 2: Population Structure -- Chapter 6. Sex ratios in old age: Comparing Countries in Middle Eastern Asia to East and Southeast Asia (Sehar Ezdi) -- Chapter 7. From ageing-driven growth towards the ending of growth: Subnational population trends in New Zealand (Natalie Jackson) -- Chapter 8. Natural Decrease in Semi-Peripheral Nations: County-Level Analyses of Mexico and Turkey (Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde) -- Chapter 9. From Topic to Problem: Organisational Mechanisms of constructing demographic change (Sven Kette) -- Part 3: Social Policy -- Chapter 10. Minorities in Spanish Secondary Education: School Segregation, Between Reality and Official Statistics (Brahim El-Habib Draoui) -- Chapter 11. Small School Closures in Rural Areas – the Beginning or the End of a Downward Spiral? Some evidence from Austria (Sigrid Kroismayr) -- Chapter 12. Maternal outcomes in the context of free maternal healthcare provisioning in North Central and Southwestern Nigeria (Anthony Ajayi) -- Chapter 13. The Association between Household and Community Single Motherhood and Adolescent Pregnancy in South Africa (Sibusiso Mkwananzi) -- Chapter 14. Tobacco use among men in sub-Saharan Africa: Does family structure matter? (Favour L.C. Ntoimo).

In this recent history of British sociology, Andrew Halsey suggests an intriguing connection between political economic régimes in the twentieth century and the development of sociology as an academic discipline, dividing British sociology into four periods, 1900-1950, 1950-1967, 1968-1975, and 1975-2000. In this way, by connecting disciplinary developments with contemporaneous régimes of economic regulation, Halsey begins to outline a sociology of sociology. However, although much of Halsey's book is informative, especially his description of the period from 1950-1967 when he personally entered the discipline, Halsey ultimately fails to develop his sociology of the discipline sufficiently, especially after 1967. Although it does not claim to be comprehensive, this essay attempts to develop Halsey's sociology of the discipline.