DR STEVE TAYLOR is based in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics. His publications include Durkheim and the Study of Suicide (Macmillan), Suicide (Addison Wesley Longman) and, with David Field, Sociology of Health and Health Care and Sociological Perspectives of Health, Illness and Health Care (both Blackwell Science).

'In fourteen substantive chapters, Taylor and his co-authors offer a coherent and accessible account of the 'massive and diverse' enterprise that is contemporary sociology...The expertise in all chapters is evident in the authoritative account of how sociological thought and research in each area has reached its current state as a basis for discussing the indications and prospects for further work...The collection is exemplary. While accessible to lay readers as well as undergraduates, it does not compromise the scale or complexity of the topics addressed.' - The Times Higher Education Supplement

• Sociology: The Individual and Society; S.Taylor Methodology; RayPawson From Classical to Modern Social Theory; Alan Swingewood Power; Barry Hindess & Christine Helliwell Class and Stratification; Rosemary Crompton Women, Men and Gender Relations; Mary Maynard Race and Ethnicity; Robert Miles & Stephen Small Families, Households and Domestic Life; Stevi Jackson Education; Robert Burgess & Andrew Parker Religion; Grace Davie The Mass Media; Natalie Fenton Crime and Deviance; David Downes Health and Illness; Steve Taylor Work and Organisations; Glenn Morgan Globalisation; Leslie Sklair.