A compilation of Goldmann's essays on method in the sociology of literature, such as:

1. Subject and Object in the Human Science
2. The Epistemology of Sociology
3. The Concept of Significant Structure in the History of Culture
4. The Social Structure and the CollectiveC onsciousneess of Structure
5. The Subject of The Cultural Creation
6. Theses on the Use of the Concept 'World View' in the history of Philosophy
7. Sociological and Cultural Denunciation
8. Genetic Structuralism and Stylistic Analysis