Larry Ray is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent. His publications include Rethinking Critical Theory (Sage, 1993), Social Theory and the Crisis of State Socialism (Edward Elgar, 1996), and he is co-editor (with Michael Reed) of Organizing Modernity: New Weberian Perspectives on Work and Organization (Routledge, 1994) and (with Andrew Sayer) of Culture and Economy After the Cultural Turn (Sage, 1999).