Includes bibliographical references and index

What makes sciences "scientific"? -- Formal theory -- Guillermina jasso -- Computational approaches to sociological theorizing -- The critical dimension in sociological theory -- Metatheorizing in sociology : the basic parameters and the potential contributions of postmodernism -- The strong program in cultural theory : elements of a structural hermeneutics -- Postmodern social theory -- Culture and identity -- Alley art : can we-- see-- at last, the end of ontology? -- Traditional symbolic interactionism, role theory, and structural symbolic interactionism : the road to identity theory -- Role theory -- The emotional/relational world : shame and the social bond -- Action theory -- Accounts of conduct in interaction : interruption, overlap, and turn-taking -- Inequality, status, and the construction of status beliefs -- Macrostructural theory