The Consequences Of Modernity by Anthony Giddens
This work analyzes how modern social life is organized by distinctive institutional forms—industrial capitalism, bureaucratic states and large-scale markets—that separate time and space through processes of time-space distanciation and the disembedding of social relations from local contexts. It explains how symbolic tokens and expert systems extend trust across complex social systems while reflexivity makes practices and identities continually subject to reinterpretation, so individuals construct the self as an ongoing project. The argument emphasizes that modernity enables unprecedented transformation and coordination but also produces manufactured risks and global interdependence, requiring attention to both enabling structures and unintended consequences.
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- 1990
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- British
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- English
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