Contributors to this volume respond to the "normative capsule" framing economic behaviour that Amitai Etzioni has explored. The text also looks at his works on organisations, public policy, socio-economics and communitarianism.

Introduction By Etzioni: Theory, Research, and Policy; 1: Frameworks and Findings: Assessing Etzioni's Contributions to Sociology; I: The Active Society; 2: Economic Action, Social Action, and the Genesis of Values: An Essay on Amitai Etzioni's Contribution to Social Theory; 3: A Theoretical Framework on the Interaction of Politics and News Media: A Dialogue with Etzioni's The Active Society; II: Socioeconomics and Communitarianism: Theory; 4: Community and the Moral Dimension: The Hidden Agenda of Etzioni and Parsons; 5: Contesting the Fiducial Line: Legal Theory and the Duty to Be Loyal; 6: Sociology, Economics, and Normative Action: Notes Toward a Theory of Middle Height; 7: Another Look at Etzioni's Concepts; III: Socioeconomics and Communitarianism: Research; 8: Family Values: A Communitarian Position; 9: Community Building in Industrial Relations: Creating Conditions for Workplace Participation; 10: Decoding the Language of Etzioni's Moral Dimension in Complex Organizations; IV: Obstacles to Community; 11: The Moral Dimension of Feminist Theories: Implications for Pay Equity; 12: Middle-Class Avoidance, Indifference, and Discrete Nihilism; 13: The Human Rights Challenge to Communitarianism: Formal Organizations and Race and Ethnicity