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Book Reviews: A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism

It has been remarked that Anthony Giddens is something of a phenomenon in British sociology: and indeed he is. He has published at the rate of one book a year for the past ten years and has covered a formidable range of material. He has written on the classical sociological tradition (Marx, Weber and Durkheim), on contemporary social and political theory (from Daniel Bell to Michael Foucault) and on a range of substantive areas (suicide, class, ideology and the state). If the significance of one’s work were determined by the number of times it was used or cited by students, then Anthony Giddens’ position would be completely unassailable. He must surely be one of the very few people who has single-handedly informed a generation of sociology students.