British sociologist. PhD, University of Cambridge, 1971. Emeritus Professor, University of Wales. Emeritus Professor in the Social Sciences, Roehampton Institute, London. Senior Fellow, Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Studies "Law as Culture", University of Bonn. President of the British Sociological Association, 1985-1987. Editor-in-chief of its journal Sociology, 1981-1984. Guest Professor, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, London School of Economics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Beijing Foreign Studies University, University of Bonn.