Introduction. The Micro-Sociological Challenge of Macro-Sociology: Towards a Reconstruction of Social Theory and Methodology K. Knorr-Cetina.
Part1. The Micro-Foundations of Social Knowledge
1. Notes on the Integration of Micro- and Macro-levels of Analysis A.V. Cicourel
2. Micro-translation as a Theory-Building Strategy R. Collins
3. Intermediate Steps between Micro- and Macro-Integration: the Case of Screening for Inherited Disorders T. Duster Part2. Action and Structure: The Cognitive Organization of Symbolic Practice
4. Philosophical Aspects of the Micro-Macro Problem R. Harre
5. Agency, Institution and Time-Space Analysis A. Giddens
6. Social Ritual and Relative Truth in Natural Language G. Fauconnier
Part3. Toward a Reconstruction of Systems Perspectives
7. Transformational Theory and the Internal Environment of Action Systems V. Lidz
8. Communication about Law in Interaction Systems N. Luhmann
Part4. The Production of Societal Macro-Structures: Aspects of a Political Economy of Practice
9. Toward a Reconstruction of Historical Materialism J. Habermas
10. Unscrewing the Big Leviathan: How Actors Macro-Structure Reality and How Sociologists Help Them to Do So M. Callon and B. Latour
11. Men and Machines P. Bourdieu