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
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