The article is a survey of the opus of the late Stephen Crook. The work is analysed in three phases: meta-theoretical treatments of foundationalism and mundaneity; substantive theoretical analyses of postmodernization, especially in the areas of culture, science and the environment; and principles along which everyday life is ordered under conditions of structural complexity, uncertainty and radical change. Crook’s work is found to have the potential to offer superior analytic capacity relative to other arguments.
Crook, S. (1991) Modernist Radicalism and its Aftermath: Foundationalism and Anti-foundationalism in Radical Social Theory. London: Routledge .
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Crook, S. (ed.) (1994) Adorno: The Stars Down to Earth and Other Essays on the Irrational in Culture. London: Routledge .
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Crook, S. (1998a) ‘Biotechnology, Risk and Sociocultural (Dis)order’, in R. Hindmarsh , G. Lawrence and J. Norton (eds) Altered Genes: Reconstructing Nature – the Debate. Sydney: Allen and Unwin .
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Crook, S. (1998b) ‘Minotaurs and Other Monsters: “Everyday Life” in Recent Social Theory’ , Sociology32(3): 523–540 .
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Crook, S. , J. Pakulski and M. Waters (1992) Postmodernization: Change in Advanced Society. London: Sage .
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Crook, S. and L. Taylor (1980) ‘Goffman’s Version of Reality’, in J. Ditton (ed.) The View from Goffman. New York: St Martin’s Press .
