About the Book: New Rules Of Sociological Method
This is a new and revised edition of a book which has established itself as a
basic text in social theory. The first section of the work provides a concise
critical analysis of some leading schools of thought in social philosophy,
giving particular attention to phenomenology, ethnomethodology and
Wittgensteinian thought. Giddens concentrates primarily upon the implications of
these various perspectives for an account of human action and its
intelligibility. An 'action approach on its own, however, will not do; in human
social life, action and structure presuppose one another. The author therefore
moves on to provide a series of