Introduction: social theory now / Claudio E. Benzecry, Monika Krause, and Isaac Ariail Reed --
On the very idea of cultural sociology / Isaac Ariail Reed --
Varieties of microsociology / Claudio E. Benzecry and Daniel Winchester --
Globalizing gender / Dorit Geva --
World capitalism, world hegemony, world empires / Ho-Fung Hung --
Postcolonial thought as social theory / Julian Go --
On the frontiers of rational choice / Ivan Ermakoff --
Systems in social theory / Dirk Baecker --
The patterns in between: "field" as a conceptual variable / Monika Krause --
Poststructuralism today / Claire Laurier Decoteau --
Networks and network theory: possible directions for unification / Emily Erikson --
Actor-network theory / Javier Lezaun --
The sociology of conventions and testing / Jörg Potthast --
Norms and mental imagery / Neil Gross and Zachary Hyde.
