Part I : Introduction: dissolution of the classical project -- Part II : Narrowing of sociological discourse -- Sociological nemesis: Parsons and Foucault on the therapeutic disciplines -- Sociological theory and practical resaon: the restriction of the scope of sociological theory -- State, ethics and public morality in American sociological thought -- Part III : Traditions in dissolution -- Sociological theory and politics -- Morality, self and society: the loss and recapture of the morla self -- The concept of structure in sociology -- The dissolution of the social? -- Part IV : Practice and the reconstruction of sociological theory -- Actors and social relations -- Human rights theory and the classical sociological tradition -- Hermeneutics and axiology: the ethical content of interpretation -- Part V : Epilog

1. Sociology -- Methodology
2. Ethics
3. Criticism (Philosophy)