Denzin asks for a research tradition engaged in social justice, sensitive to identity and indigenous concerns, brave to risk presentation in forms beyond traditional academic writing, and committed to teaching this to their students and colleagues. He outlines a cogent, inclusive blueprint for the future of the field.

Introduction; Chapter 1 A Global Community and the Sociological Imagination; Chapter 2 Critics and Bricoleurs; Chapter 3 Back to the Future; Chapter 4 Pedagogical Practices; Chapter 5 Ethical Disclosure, or, in the Forest but Lost in the Trees, or, a One-Act Play with Many Endings; Chapter 6 Reading, Writing, and Publishing the Experimental Text; Chapter 7 Templates for Social Justice Inquiry; Chapter 8 Coda;