Table of Contents

Acknowledgements The Contributors 1. Introduction - Sue Penna, Martin O'Brien and Colin Hay 2. Theorising Modernity: Reflexivity, Identity and Environments in Giddens' Social Theory - Martin O'Brien 3. Radical Politics - Neither Left Nor Right? - Ted Benton 4. Beyond Emancipation? the reflexivity of social movements - Paul Bagguley 5. Exploring Post-Traditional Orders: Individual Reflexivity, 'Pure Relations and Duality of Structure - Nicos Mouzelis 6. Life Politics, the Environment and the Limits of Sociology - Peter Dickens 7. Criminality, Social Environments and Late Modernity - Dave Smith 8. Modernity and the Politics of Identity - Martin O'Brien and Jenny Harris 9. Theorising Identity, Difference and Social Divisions - Floya Anthios 10. A World of Differences: What if it's so? How will we know? - Charles Lemert 11. Responses and Reflections: An Interview with Anthony Giddens Bibliography Index

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Martin O'Brien