| 1 | Introduction and Assignments |
| 2-3 | The Social, the Ethnographic Method and the Durkheimean Challenge |
| 4-5 | Disciplines, Communities of Expertise and Epistemological Cultural Critique |
| 6 | Ecology and Systems: You Can't Change Only One Thing |
| 7 | System Transformation, Social Formations, Multiple Historical Horizons: The Marxian Challenge |
| 8 | Meaningful Social Action in Post-Bureaucratic Worlds: The Weberian Challenge |
| 9 | Media, the Culture Industry, and the Transformation of Social Relations: The Challenge of the Frankfurt School |
| 10 | Bodies, Multitudes, Codes and Flows: The Challenge of 1970s-90s French "Theory" |
| 11 | Material-Semiotic Objects: Cyborg and Companionate Anthropologies |
| 12 | Trauma, Human Rights, the Humanitarian Industry, and the Reconstruction of Society after Violent Distruction |