Abstract
[Extract]The editors of Profiles in Contemporary Social Theory recognize that the field of social theory has changed dramatically in the last few decades. They admit that in selecting thinkers for inclusion they were faced with 'an embarrassment of riches' (p. 7). The amount of social theorizing seems to be increasing, and its character has changed. Social theory is now an interdisciplinary project (or at least it is carried out in various disciplines) and has to deal with 'a bewildering array of social phenomena, cultural artifacts, and theoretical discourses in the contemporary epoch' (p. 7). The criteria cited in the 'Editor's Introduction' as the basis for selecting thinkers – that 'theorists included in Profiles are generally people who have been active and influential in the second half of the twentieth century, and who will continue to be influential in the twenty-first century' – were designed to avoid 'simply being fashionable' (p. 7).
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