Sociology as an individual pastime -- Sociology as a form of consciousness -- Excursus : alternation and biography (or : how to acquire a prefabricated past) -- Sociological perspective : man in society -- Sociological perspective : society in man -- Sociological perspective : society as drama -- Excursus : sociological Machiavellianism and ethics (or : how to acquire scruples and keep on cheating) -- Sociology as a humanistic discipline.