pt. 1. Paul F. Lazarsfeld: work-style and thought-style: PFL: hedgehog or fox? / Marie Jahoda
The Vienna years / Hans Zeisel
Recollections of PFL / Bernard Bailyn
Remembering Paul Lazarsfeld / Robert K. Merton
Organizational innovation for social science research and training / Charles Y. Glock
The evolution of a thesis: utilization of social research as a sociological problem / Ann K. Pasanella
pt. 2. Quantitative methods and reasoning: Generating models as a research strategy / Raymond Boudon
The meaning of causal ordering / Herbert A. Simon
Panels and time series analysis: Markov chains and autogressive processes / T.W. Anderson
Purposive actors and mutual effects / James S. Coleman
The analysis of qualitative variables using more parsimonious quasi-independence models, scaling models, and latent structures / Leo A. Goodman
The choice axiom after twenty years / R. Duncan Luce
Social exchange and choice / Anthony Oberschall
Vignette analysis: uncovering the normative structure of complex judgments / Peter H. Rossi
pt. 3. Qualitative methods and reasoning: Marx's general and middle-range theories of social conflict / Lee Benson
Ethical and practical dilemmas of fieldwork in academic settings: a personal memoir / David Riesman
On following in someone's footsteps: two examples of Lazarsfeldian methodology / Hanan C. Selvin
Disposition concepts in behavioral science / Morris Rosenberg
pt. 4. Substantive social research: Immigration, citizenship, and social change: intention and outcome in American history / Sigmund Diamond
The effects of unemployment: a neglected problem in modern social research / Herbert H. Hyman
With what effect?: the lessons from international communications research / Elihu Katz
The changing social origins of American academics / Seymour Martin Lipset and Everett C. Ladd, Jr.
The professional and academic context of professional schools / Peter M. Blau, Rebecca Z. Margulies, and John B. Cullen.