Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors PART I: INTRODUCTION Anthony Giddens: A Global Social Theorist; C.Bryant & D.Jary PART II: THE USES OF GIDDENS' STRUCTURATION THEORY The Uses of Structuration Theory: A Typology; C.Bryant & D.Jary The Duality of Technology: Rethinking the Concept of Technology in Organizations; W.J.Orlikowski Environmental and Medical Bioethics in Late Modernity: Anthony Giddens, Genetic Engineering and the Postmodern State; R.McNally & P.Wheale PART III: SELF-IDENTITY, LATE MODERNITY AND GLOBALIZATION The Body, Self-Identity and Social Transformation; C.Bryant & D.Jary Embodiment, Structuration Theory and Modernity: Mind/Body Dualism and the Repression of Sensuality; C.Shilling & P.A.Mellor The Constitution of Global Society; T.Spybey PART IV: THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL The Public Intellectual and the Third Way; C.Bryant & D.Jary The Future of Post-Socialism; M.Rustin The Two Tonys: Why is the Prime Minister so Interested in what Anthony Giddens Thinks?; R.S.Boynton Anthony Giddens, Tony Blair and the Third Way; M.Temple PART V: A DIALOGUE WITH ANTHONY GIDDENS The Reflexive Giddens: Christopher Bryant and David Jary in Dialogue with Anthony Giddens PART VI: BIBLIOGRAPHIES Works by Anthony Giddens 1960-2000 Works on Giddens or which Use Giddens Index

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ROBERT S. BOYNTON Visiting Professor of Journalism, New York University ANTHONY GIDDENS Director, London School of Economics RUTH MCNALLY Lecturer in Sociology, Brunel University PHILIP A. MELLOR Senior Lecturer, Sociology of Religion, University of Leeds WANDA J. ORLIKOWSKI Associate Professor, Information Technologies and Organization, MIT Sloan School of Management MICHAEL RUSTIN Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of East London CHRIS SHILLING Professor of Sociology, School of Social and Historical Studies, University of Portsmouth TONY SPYBEY Professor of Sociology, Staffordshire University MICHAEL TEMPLE Senior Lecturer in Media and Politics, Staffordshire University PETER WHEALE Senior Lecturer in Business Administration, University of North London

About the Author

CHRISTOPHER BRYANT is Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Media and Social Sciences at the University of Salford. His publications include, as author, Positivism in Social Theory and Research (1985) and as co-editor with David Jary, Anthony Giddens: Critical Reassessments and Giddens' Theory of Structuration. - DAVID JARY is Research Professor at Staffordshire University and Visiting Professor at Birmingham University where he is co-ordinator for sociology. He is co-editor with Christopher Bryant of Anthony Giddens: Critical Reassessments and Giddens' Theory of Structuration.