1. Symbolic Power, Climate Change, and the Politics of Event Attribution Science • Zeke Baker, Sonoma State University.

2. Problem Solvers or Professional Scholars? State-Sociologist Relationships and the Professionalization of Chinese Sociology, 1979-2000 • Yunpeng Chen, University of California, San Diego.

3. From Quality, Not Quantity to Quality, as Quantity: Making the ‘Care Economy’ Valuable • Zachary Griffen, NYU.

4. Closing the “Domestic Intelligence Gap”: US Senator Walter Mondale's Proposal for a National Council of Social Advisers and the “Uneasy Partnership” between Social Science and the Federal Government • Mark Solovey, University of Toronto.