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Book Reviews Sociology in America : A History Edited by Craig Calhoun University of Chicago Press. 2007. 913 pages. $85 cloth, $30 paper. Reviewer: Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill As part of its Centennial Observation in 2005, the American Sociological Association asked Craig Calhoun to edit a volume documenting the history of sociology in the United States. The resulting book. Sociology in America: A History, is a massive, monumental and masterful compendium of the intellectual and institutional currents underlying the development of sociology as a discipline in this country. Ably assisted by an editorial advisory committee of distinguished sociologists (Andrew Abbott, Troy Duster, Barbara Laslett, Alan Sica and Margaret Somers), Calhoun has assembled a set of high quality and well-written essays that collectively provide a valuable synopsis of our discipline from its roots in the 19 century to the present. Calhoun notes that this volume represents sociological history in three senses: it is written by sociologists; it focuses on the development of the discipline (not on the implications for broader intellectual history); and it emphasizes institutional patterns shaping the field . Coverage of the field was but one goal of many and thus some areas have not been covered as much as they could have been, such as: rural and urban sociology, ethnicity as distinct from race, relations to other disciplines, medical sociology, and the history of teaching of sociology. Calhouns introductory essay provides a useful overview of the history of sociology in the United States. It also outlines a number of key themes that serve as unifying ideas for many of the chapters that follow. These themes include: the diversity and heterogeneity of American sociology, the on-going tension between the pursuit of scientific knowle