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Author Giddens, Anthony.

Title The consequences of modernity / Anthony Giddens
Published Cambridge : Polity Press in association with Blackwell, 1990
1990

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Description ix, 186 pages : illustrations
Contents Contents: 1. 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 or post-modernity? -- Summary -- 2. The institutional dimensions of modernity -- The globalising of modernity -- Two theoretical perspectives -- Dimensions of globalisation -- 3. Trust and modernity -- Trust in abstract systems -- Trust and expertise -- Trust and ontological security -- The pre-modern and the modern -- 4. 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 phenomenology of modernity -- Deskilling and reskilling in everyday life -- Objections to post-modernity -- 5. Riding the juggernaut -- Utopian realism -- Future orientations -- The role of social movements -- Post-modernity -- 6. Is modernity a Western project? -- Concluding observations
Analysis Western culture Modernism & postmodernism
Notes Based on the Raymond Fred West memorial lectures which the author delivered at Stanford University in April 1988
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 181-186
Subject Civilization, Modern.
Civilization, Western.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Postmodernism.
Social structure.
LC no. 90185590
ISBN 0745607934