| List of Figures | |
| Preface | |
| 1 | Introduction to Identity and Control | 3 |
| Identities from Contingencies | 5 |
| Control and Decoupling | 9 |
| Scope and Terms of Social Organization | 14 |
| 2 | Disciplines | 22 |
| Pecking Orders | 23 |
| Three Species from Valuation Orderings | 28 |
| Embedding and Variations | 32 |
| Interfaces | 38 |
| Arenas | 48 |
| Councils | 54 |
| Catnets for Black Hole in Index Space | 60 |
| 3 | Network and Stories | 65 |
| Ties and Stories | 66 |
| Tracings of Social Space | 70 |
| Network as Population | 78 |
| Types of Tie | 84 |
| Blockmodels of Structural Equivalence | 93 |
| Ambiguity versus Ambage | 102 |
| 4 | Institutions | 116 |
| Village Caste and University Science | 118 |
| Boundaries | 126 |
| Values | 136 |
| Corporatism | 142 |
| Clientelism | 150 |
| Norman Feudalism | 156 |
| Positions across Role Frames | 160 |
| 5 | Styles and Person | 166 |
| Styles | 167 |
| Profiles | 177 |
| Entourages | 191 |
| Persons | 196 |
| Careers | 212 |
| Professionalism and Regimes | 222 |
| 6 | Getting Action | 230 |
| Further Control in Time | 232 |
| Hieratic Styles | 237 |
| Agenda for Agency | 245 |
| Getting Action | 254 |
| Dual Hierarchy and Servile Elite | 267 |
| General Management | 273 |
| Annealing | 281 |
| 7 | Rhetoric and Theory | 287 |
| Rhetorics and Systems | 288 |
| Rationality | 297 |
| History and Natural Science as Guides | 303 |
| Identity and Control | 312 |
| Appendix 1: One Hundred Topics | 317 |
| Conjectures 1-27 | 317 |
| Speculations 1-19 | 321 |
| Questions 1-54 | 323 |
| Appendix 2: Some Models | 328 |
| A | Disciplines and Networks | 328 |
| B | Space-Times | 337 |
| C | Persons as Kalman Filters | 346 |
| Appendix 3: List of Software | 350 |
| Works Cited | 351 |
| Index | 415 |
