constitutes a shared foundation for sociological analysis. Thus, concepts of 'structure' and 'action', for example, may inform a variety of competing accounts of particular social phenomena, but there is no necessary opposition between structural and agential accounts. Conceptualisations of the social world can be seen as complementary to each other, and sociologist should eschew the overemphasis of difference if comprehensive, cooperative endeavours are to be produced. Scott's latest work highlights the achievement of sociology as a discipline in establishing a set of fundamental principles of sociological analysis that can be used cooperatively. These are culture, nature, structure, action, system, space-time, mind, and development. The view that these basic principles of sociological analysis were established early in the history of the discipline and have subsequently been developed and elaborated underpins Scott's interest in the history of sociology. His books on theory have concentrated on the earliest statements of the various arguments considered and have led him to investigate the ideas of many now-forgotten figures. He has, in particular, explored early British sociology and has begun to establish the reputation of Victor Branford, the founder of the Sociological Society and the Sociological Review and the only British sociologist to have been made an Honorary Life member of the American Sociological Society. Publications Scott's book publications on stratification and on economic and political sociology include: Corporations, Classes and Capitalism, London, Hutchinson, 1979. American edition, St Martins Press. Reprinted 1981. (Japanese translation: Tokyo, Bunshindo, 1983). Completely revised Second Edition 1985 The Anatomy of Scottish Capital, with M. Hughes, London, Croom Helm, 1980. Canadian edition, McGill Queens. The Upper Classes: Property and Privilege in Britain, London, Macmillan, 1982. Directors of Industry, with C. Griff, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1984. (Japanese translation: Tokyo, Horitsu Bunka Sha, 1987). Networks of Corporate Power, editor with F. Stokman and R. Zeigler, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1985. (Japanese translation: Tokyo, Bunshindo, 1993). Capitalist Property and Financial Power, Brighton, Wheatsheaf, 1986. American edition, New York University Press. (Japanese translation: Kyoto, Zeimukeiri Kyokai, 1989). Who Rules Britain? Cambridge, Polity Press, 1991, reprinted 1992. Poverty and Wealth: Citizenship, Deprivation and Privilege, Harlow, Longman, 1994. Stratification and Power: Structures of Class, Status and Domination, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1996. Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1997. Power, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2001. (Polish translation: Warszawa, Wydawnictwo SIC, 2006) His edited collections and compilations in this area include: The Sociology of Elites, Three Volumes, editor, Cheltenham,