CONTENTS • Introduction • Manifest and Latent Functions • The Bearing of Sociological Theory on Empirical Research • The Bearing of Empirical Research on Sociological Theory • Social Structure and Anomie • Continuities in the Theory of Social Structure and Anomie • Bureaucratic Structure and Personality • Role of the Intellectual in Public Bureaucracy • Contributions to the Theory of Reference Group Behavior (with Alice S. Rossi) • Continuities in the Theory of Reference Groups and Social Structure • Patterns of Influence: Local and Cosmopolitan Influentials • The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy • The Sociology of Knowledge • Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge • Studies in Radio and Film Propaganda (with Paul F. Lazarsfeld) • Science and the Social Order • Science and Democratic Social Structure • The Machine, the Worker, and the Engineer • Puritanism, Pietism, and Science • Science and Economy of 17th Century England