Anthony Giddens: Consensus and Controversy.

Part 1 Editorial introduction: Anthony Giddens - consensus and controversy, Jon Clark et al general introduction Anthony Giddens and The Classics, Gianfranco Poggi Anthony Giddens, sociology and modern social theory, Jon Clark. Part 2 Consensus and controversy: structuration theory - structuration theory and social order - five issues in brief, Ira Cohen milieu and structure updated - a critique of the theory of structuration, Arthur Stinchcombe interchange - Cohen replies to Stinchcombe - Stinchcombe replies to Cohen agency and structures, William Outhwaite human agency and social structure - a critique of Giddens, Margaret Archer interchange - Outhwaite replies to Archer - Archer replies to Outhwaite functionalism - Giddens' critique of functionalism, Hans Joas Giddens' analysis of functionalism - a critique, Jonathon Turner interchange - Joas replies to Turner - Turner replies to Joas time and space - context and bodies in flux - some comments on space and time in the work of Anthony Giddens, Allan Pred the temporal and the temporizing in structuration theory, Gregor McLennan interchange - Pred replies to McLennan - McLennan replies to Pred interpretive theory/hermeneutics - hermeneutics and Giddens' theory of structuration, Hamish Dickie-Clark hermeneutics and the crisis of social theory - a critique of Giddens's epistemology, Susan Hekman interchange - Dickie-Clark replies to Hekman - Hekman replies to Dickie-Clark class structure and class analysis - Giddens on classes and class structure, Dennis Wrong Giddens on social class - a critique, John Urry interchange - Wrong replies to Urry - Urry replies to Wrong historical materialism - Giddens on historical materialism, Lewis Coser Giddens's view of historical materialism, Tom Bottomore interchange - Coser replies to Bottomore - Bottomore replies to Coser theories of history and social change - Grand Maps of History - structuration theory and social change, Derek Gregory reinventing the wheel - Anthony Giddens, Karl Marx and social change, Derek Sayer interchange - Gregory replies to Sayer - Sayer replies to Gregory the nation-state and the modern world system, Christopher Dandeker the nation-state and violence - a critique of Giddens, John Breuilly interchange - Dandeker replies to Breuilly - Breuilly replies to Dandeker. Part 3: structuration theory and sociological analysis, Anthony Giddens.