A creative tour of recent trends in British social science, from the earlier debates on localities and restructuring to the new sociology of nature and culture. List of Tables, Preface, Time and Space in the Consumption of Place, Society and Space, Sociology as a Parasite: Some Vices and Virtues, The New Marxism of Collective Action: A Critical Analysis, Society and Space and Locality, Restructuring and Services, Restructuring the Rural, Capitalist Production and Scientific Management and the Service Class, Is Britain the First ''Post-Industrial Society''?, Consumption and Place and Identity, The Consumption of Tourism, Tourism and Travel and the Modern Subject, Reinterpreting Local Culture, Tourism and Europe and Identity, Consuming Nature, The Tourist Gaze and the Environment, The Making of the Lake District, Social Identity and Leisure and the Countryside, Bibliography, Index.