The Labor Market as a Social Institution

satisfaction: the complexity, breadth and depth in conjunction with the unexplicated. I relish the gaps and the loose ends. They create the necessary climate for inspiration; they allow us to utilise what he has to say; they facilitate development. On Cohen's own admission, 'the most significant contributions to social theory always leave as many unsettled issues as those which they explicitly confront' (IC ?. 287). Closed-off arguments like closed systems are invariably dead. For life to exist and for creativity to flourish there . . . . . . . neec to oe varlatlon, Inconslstencles anc gaps, in other words there has to be room for improvement. There is no doubt that Giddens's work deserves attention but we have to take great care that we don't reneer It Inanlmate In t le process. Barbara Adsm