Authors of Their Own Lives
  CONTRIBUTORS
  INTRODUCTION

 collapse sectionPART I—  ACADEMIC MEN
 •Chapter One—  Imagining the Real
 collapse sectionChapter Two—  Becoming an Academic Man
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 collapse sectionChapter Three—  Columbia in the 1950s
 •Introduction
 •The Social System of Columbia Sociology, 1951–55
 •The Power of Two Personalities
 •The Content of Sociology at Columbia
 •The Impact of These Ideas on Me
 •My Traverse through Columbia
 collapse sectionChapter Four—  My Life and Soft Times
 •Growing up in the 1930s
 •The War Years
 •The University of Chicago
 •Graduate Education and Intellectual Tension
 •Graduate Years
 •The Establishing Years
 •The Illinois Years
 •India, 1962–81
 •California
 •On and Off the Wagon
 •The Now and Future Years
 •Afterword

 collapse sectionPART II—  DOING IT THEIR OWN WAY
 •Chapter Five—  The Crooked Lines of God
 •Chapter Six—  Looking for the Interstices
 •Chapter Seven—  Working in Other Fields
 •Chapter Eight—  From Socialism to Sociology

 collapse sectionPART III—  MOBILITY STORIES
 •Chapter Nine—  An Unlikely Story
 •Chapter Ten—  Learning and Living
 collapse sectionChapter Eleven—  Reflections on Academic Success and Failure:  Making It, Forsaking It, Reshaping It
 •Life Could Be a Dream
 •After the Fall
 •Seven Characteristics of Success
 •Practical Lessons
 •Chapter Twelve—  Becoming an Arty Sociologist

 collapse sectionPART IV—  THREE GENERATIONS OF WOMEN SOCIOLOGISTS
 collapse sectionChapter Thirteen—  Seasons of a Woman's Life
 •Birth and Childhood
 •Puberty and Adolescence
 •Early Adulthood
 •The Middle Years
 •Looking Ahead
 •Cohort Characteristics
 •Period Effects
 •Maturational Effects
 •Overview
 •References
 collapse sectionChapter Fourteen—  A Woman's Twentieth Century
 •References
 •Chapter Fifteen—  Personal Reflections with a Sociological Eye
 •Chapter Sixteen—  Research on Relationships

 collapse sectionPART V—  THE EUROPEAN EMIGRATION
 collapse sectionChapter Seventeen—  Partisanship and Scholarship
 •1931–1945
 •1945–1953
 •1953–1984
 •Chapter Eighteen—  From the Popocatepetl to the Limpopo
 collapse sectionChapter Nineteen—  Relativism, Equality, and Popular Culture
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 •Chapter Twenty—  How I Became an American Sociologist

 collapse sectionNotes
 •Chapter Two— Becoming an Academic Man
 •Chapter Eleven— Reflections on Academic Success and Failure: Making It, Forsaking It, Reshaping It
 •Chapter Twelve— Becoming an Arty Sociologist
 •Chapter Fourteen— A Woman's Twentieth Century
 •Chapter Seventeen— Partisanship and Scholarship
 •Chapter Nineteen— Relativism, Equality, and Popular Culture
 collapse sectionINDEX
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