Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Part 1
5. 1 The Historicality of Individuals 3
6. 2 Human Nature in Processual Thinking 16
7. 3 Linked Ecologies 33
8. Part 2
9. 4 Lyrical Sociology 77
10. 5 The Problem of Excess 122
11. Part 3
12. 6 The Idea of Outcome 165
13. 7 Social Order and Process 198
14. Part 4
15. 8 Inequality as Process 233
16. 9 Professionalism Empirical and Moral 253
17. Epilogue 277
18. References 293
19. Index 307