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Craig Calhounis University Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University. He was previously Director of the London School of Economics, President of the Social Science Research Council, and a professor of sociology at NYU, Columbia, and UNC Chapel Hill. Calhoun’s newest book is Degenerations of Democracy (Harvard 2022) with Dilip Gaonkar and Charles Taylor.

Joseph Gerteisis Professor of Sociology and Co-Principal Investigator of the American Mosaic Project at the University of Minnesota. He is author of Class and the Color Line (Duke University Press). His work explores issues of race and ethnicity, social boundaries and identities, and political culture. It has appeared in The Sociological Quarterly, Sociological Forum , American Sociological Review , Social Problems , and elsewhere.

James Moodyis Professor of Sociology at Duke University and Director of the Duke Network Analysis Center. He has published extensively in the field of social networks, methods, and social theory with over 70 peer reviewed publications. His work focuses theoretically on the network foundations of social cohesion and diffusion, with a particular emphasis on building tools and methods for understanding dynamic social networks. He has used network models to help understand organizational performance, school racial segregation, adolescent health, disease spread, economic development, and the development of scientific disciplines.

Steven Pfaffis Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. He is the author of Exit-Voice Dynamics and the Collapse of East Germany (Duke, 2006) and, with Mimi Goldman, The Spiritual Virtuoso (Bloomsbury, 200717), and with Michael Hechter, The Genesis of Rebellion (Cambridge, 2020). He has been awarded the Social Science History Association’s President’s Award and the best book award from the European Academy of Sociology.

Indermohan Virkis the Executive Director of the Patten Foundation and the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions at Indiana University Bloomington, and she works in the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs. She was previously a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Indiana University.

The editors and publisher gratefully acknowledge the permission granted to reproduce the copyright material in this book.

Chapter 1

Erving Goffman, pp. 17–25 from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life . New York: Doubleday, 1959. © 1959 Erving Goffman. Reproduced with permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. and Penguin Books, UK.

Chapter 2

Herbert Blumer, pp. 46–8, 50–2, 78–89 from Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method , 1st edn. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1969. Reproduced with permission of Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ.

Chapter 3

Randall Collins, pp. 3–4, 5, 15, 42–5, 47–54, 55–61, 62–3, 81–3, 87 from Interaction Ritual Chains . Princeton University Press, 2004. © 2004 Princeton University Press. Reproduced with permission of Princeton University Press.

Chapter 4

Michael Hechter, “A Theory of Group Solidarity,” pp. 40–54 from Principles of Group Solidarity . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1987. Reproduced with permission of University of California Press.

Chapter 5

James S. Coleman, “Metatheory” from Foundations of Social Theory . Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1990. © 1990 The President and Fellows of Harvard College. Reproduced with permission of Harvard University Press.

Chapter 6

Harrison White, “Catnets,” from “Notes on the Constituents of Social Structure,” unpublished manuscript, 1966. Reproduced with permission of Prof. Peter S. Bearman.

Chapter 7

Anthony Giddens, “Some New Rules of Sociological Method,” pp. 155–162 from New Rules of Sociological Method: A Positive Critique of Interpretive Sociologies . Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993. Reproduced with permission of Polity Press and Stanford University Press.

Chapter 8

Mark Granovetter, “Economic Embeddedness,” pp. 481–2, 482–8, 488–9, 490–2, 492–3, 508–10 from “Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness,” American Journal of Sociology 91: 3 (November 1985). © 1985 American Journal of Sociology. Reproduced with permission of University of Chicago Press.

Chapter 9