Contents -- Introduction -- Adriana Mica, Arkadiusz Peisert, Jan Winczorek -- Part I: Unintended Consequences- Refinements and Redefinitions -- Introduction -- Adriana Mica -- Individual Reasons as the Causes of Collective Phenomena -- Raymond Boudon -- Limits to Agency: Exploring the Unintended (and Unattended)Consequences of Action -- Colin Campbell -- Elitist Consumption: Revisiting the Question of Utilitarian vs. Symbolic Motives -- Jean-Pascal Daloz -- Existential Uncertainty and its Remedies. On the Shoulders of Robert K. Merton -- Piotr Sztompka -- What about a Sociology of Uncertainty? Jocelyn Pixley -- Waiting to Happen: The Accident in Sociology -- Steve Matthewman -- How Non-Linear is the Linear Model of Innovation? Treatment of Consequences in Diffusion and Translation Models -- Adriana Mica -- Part II: Case Studies of the Unintended -- Introduction -- Arkadiusz Peisert -- Climate Change and Extreme Weather as Risk and Consequence -- Mike Zajko -- Teacher Evaluations over the Life Course: Valid Prognosis or Self-fulfilling Prophecy? Klaus Birkelbach -- Affectivity, Expertise, and Inequality: Three Foundations of Trust in Education. Reflections on Presuppositions, (Unintended) Consequences, and Possible Alternatives -- Federico Farini -- Self-defeating Prophecies and Social Conflict: A Case Study and Some Theoretical Considerations -- Francisco Linares -- Pluralistic Ignorance in Action: The Puzzle of Unintended Consequences during Poland's Transition to Democracy -- Klaus Bachmann -- Nation as a Perverse Effect -- Michal Luczewski -- Part III: Unintended Consequences of Norms and Social Intervention -- Introduction -- Jan Winczorek -- The Beneficial and Unintended Consequences of False Beliefs about Norm Violation. When Is there a "Preventive Effect of Ignorance"? Karl-Dieter Opp.

Amending the Amendments: Whether There Are Any Intended Effects of the Law at All? Jacek Kurczewski -- Why Do Procedures Have Unexpected Outcomes? Jan Winczorek -- Unintended Consequences in Normalization Processes: The Case of Certification of Quality Management Systems in the Social Sector -- Ivo Domingues -- Unintended Consequences of Institutional Work -- Mikolaj Pawlak -- Foreseeably Unforeseeable Risk: Why Unintended Consequences Matter in Political Theory too -- Richard Vernon -- Contributors.