The consequences of modernity/ Anthony Giddens
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TextSeries: (Social theory)Publication details: Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990Description: ix, 186 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780745609232Subject(s): Postmodernism | Social structure | Civilization | Globalization--Social aspectsDDC classification: 305.5 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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I. Introduction. --
2. The discontinuities of modernity. --
3. Security and danger, trust and risk. --
4. Sociology and modernity. --
5. Modernity, time, and space. --
6. Disembedding. --
7. Trust. --
8. The reflexivity of modernity. --
9. Modernity or post-modernity? --
10. Summary. --
II. The institutional dimensions of modernity. --
2. The globalising of modernity. --
3. Two theoretical perspectives. --
4. Dimensions of globalisation. --
III. Trust and modernity. --
2. Trust in abstract systems. --
3. Trust and expertise. --
4. Trust and ontological security. --
5. The pre-modern and the modern. --
IV. Abstract systems and the transformation of intimacy. --
2. Trust and personal relations. --
3. Trust and personal identity. --
4. Risk and danger in the modern world. --
5. Risk and ontological security. --
6. Adaptive reactions. --
7. A phenomenology of modernity. --
8. Deskilling and reskilling in everyday life. --
9. Objections to post-modernity. --
V. Riding the juggernaut. --
2. Utopian realism. --
3. Future orientations: the role of social movements. --
4. Post-modernity. --
VI. Is modernity a Western project? --
2. Concluding observations.
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