Pt. I. Selective Traditions. Ch. 1. Politically engaged social enquiry and images of society -- Pt. II. Cultural Differentiations. Ch. 2. The production of culture in local rebellion. Ch. 3. Secret agents, hidden meanings: domination and resistance re-examined -- Pt. III. Modernity and New Socio-Economic Forms. Ch. 4. Knowing their place: regional economies and the social construction of place in Western Europe. Ch. 5. Towards an ethnographic method for the study of 'informalized' regional economies in Western Europe -- Pt. IV. Disciplined Practices. Ch. 6. Overlapping collectivities: Local concern, state welfare and social membership. Ch. 7. The dialectics of history and will: The Janus face of hegemonic processes