The Consequences of Modernity

Produktbeschreibung

In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post--modern world. 

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. 

Autoreninfo

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).