AAGE B. SORENSEN is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. He is coeditor of Human Development and the Life Course and author of numerous articles and books in Europe and the United States.SEYMOUR SPILERMAN is Julian C. Levi Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. He has published extensively in the fields stratitization, collective violence, and mathematical sociology.

• IntroductionIntroduction: The Intellectual Contributions of James S. Coleman by Aage B. Sørensen and Seymour SpilermanPolicy-Relevant Social TheoryThe Individual as Participant in Political Exchange by James BuchananThe Conditions of Fruitfulness of Theorizing about Mechanisms in Social Science by Arthur L. StinchcombeBeyond the Alternative between the Homo Sociologicus and the Homo Oeconomicus: Toward a Theory of Cold Beliefs by Raymond BoudonOrganizational Puzzles by Gordon TullockRational Models of Charismatic Influence by Benjamin D. ZablockiHobbes and Coleman by Gudmund HernesSociology of EducationEducational Goals and Political Plans by Daniel Patrick MoynihanThe Coleman Reports and American Education by Diane RavitchGames with Simulated Environments: Educational Innovation and Research Technology by Sarane BoocockSocial Structure and Social PolicyWealth, Intergenerational Transfers and Life Chances by Seymour SpilermanThe Production of Social Order with Special Reference to Contemporary Japan by Michael Hechter and Satoshi KanazawaTwo Americas, Two Value Systems: Blacks and Whites by Seymour Martin LipsetThe Practice of Sociology in Public Affairs by Erik Van HoveRationality without Responsibility? A Dynamic Model of Responsible Behavior by Henrik Kreutz

AAGE B. SORENSEN is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. He is coeditor of Human Development and the Life Course and author of numerous articles and books in Europe and the United States.SEYMOUR SPILERMAN is Julian C. Levi Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. He has published extensively in the fields stratitization, collective violence, and mathematical sociology.

• IntroductionIntroduction: The Intellectual Contributions of James S. Coleman by Aage B. Sørensen and Seymour SpilermanPolicy-Relevant Social TheoryThe Individual as Participant in Political Exchange by James BuchananThe Conditions of Fruitfulness of Theorizing about Mechanisms in Social Science by Arthur L. StinchcombeBeyond the Alternative between the Homo Sociologicus and the Homo Oeconomicus: Toward a Theory of Cold Beliefs by Raymond BoudonOrganizational Puzzles by Gordon TullockRational Models of Charismatic Influence by Benjamin D. ZablockiHobbes and Coleman by Gudmund HernesSociology of EducationEducational Goals and Political Plans by Daniel Patrick MoynihanThe Coleman Reports and American Education by Diane RavitchGames with Simulated Environments: Educational Innovation and Research Technology by Sarane BoocockSocial Structure and Social PolicyWealth, Intergenerational Transfers and Life Chances by Seymour SpilermanThe Production of Social Order with Special Reference to Contemporary Japan by Michael Hechter and Satoshi KanazawaTwo Americas, Two Value Systems: Blacks and Whites by Seymour Martin LipsetThe Practice of Sociology in Public Affairs by Erik Van HoveRationality without Responsibility? A Dynamic Model of Responsible Behavior by Henrik Kreutz