Giddens The Consequences of Modernity

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-7711-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new andprovocative interpretation of the institutional transformationsassociated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in apost-modern world. Rather the distinctive characteristics of ourmajor social institutions in the closing period of the twentiethcentury express the emergence of a period of 'high modernity,' inwhich prior trends are radicalised rather than undermined. Apost-modern social universe may eventually come into being, butthis as yet lies 'on the other side' of the forms of social andcultural organization which currently dominate world history.
In developing an account of the nature of modernity, Giddensconcentrates upon analyzing the intersections between trust andrisk, and security and danger, in the modern world. Both the trustmechanisms associated with modernity and the distinctive 'riskprofile' it produces, he argues, are distinctively different fromthose characteristic of pre-modern social orders.
This book build upon the author's previous theoretical writings,and will be of fundamental interest to anyone concerned withGidden's overall project. However, the work covers issues which theauthor has not previously analyzed and extends the scope of hiswork into areas of pressing practical concern. This book will beessential reading for second year undergraduates and above insociology, politics, philosophy, and cultural studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giddens, Anthony

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I:.
Introduction.
The Discontinuities of Modernity.
Security and Danger, Trust and Risk.
Sociology and Modernity.
Modernity, Time and Space.
Disembedding.
Trust.
The Reflexivity of Modernity.
Modernity and Post- Modernity?.
Summary.
Part II:.
The Institutional Dimensions of Modernity.
The Globalizing of Modernity.
Two Theoretical Perspectives.
Dimensions of Globalization.
Part III:.
Trust and Modernity.
Trust in Abstract Systems.
Trust and Expertise.
Trust and Ontological Security.
The Pre-Modern and Modern.
Part IV:.
Abstract Systems and the Transformation of Intimacy.
Trust and Personal Relations.
Trust and Personal Identity.
Risk and Danger in the Modern World.
Risk and Ontological Security.
Adaptive Reactions.
A Phenomonology of Modernity.
Deskilling and Reskilling in Everyday Life.
Objections to Post-Modernity.
Part V:.
Riding the Juggernaut.
Utopian Realism.
Future Orientations.
The Role of Social Movements.
Post-Modernity.
Part VI: .
Is Modernity and Western Project?.
Concluding Observations.
Notes.

Über Autor(innen)

Anthony Giddens is a Fellow of King's College and Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Other books to his credit include The Constitution of Society (1984, Polity Press) and The Nation-State and Violence (1985, Polity Press).