1. An Interim Career Report 2. Bauman's Sociology: His Theory of Modernity 3. The Ways and Means of the Dragoman 4. Freedom and Security in the Liquid Modern Sociality 5. Consumerism as the Liquid Modern Way of Life. Suggestions for Further Reading

This timely book provides the definitive concise introduction to Zygmunt Bauman. A well-written text, it assumes no prior knowledge of his work and will appeal to those wishing to explore the ideas of one of the world's most wide-ranging thinkers.

Tony Blackshaw is Senior Lecturer in sociology at Sheffield Hallam University. He has recently completed two major studies in the sociology of sport and leisure - New Perspectives on Sport and 'Deviance': Consumption, Performativity and Social Control (with Tim Crabbe) (2004) and Leisure Life: Myth, Masculinity and Modernity (2003) - both published by Routledge.