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Anthony Giddens (sfortunatamenti vive) Reflexivity,
radicalised modernity, sociology, risk, trust Weber,
Durkheim, Marx (critical) Beck New
Labour ideologue – big- wig on sociological scene, at some stage LSE
director, and possibly also proprietor of Polity Press? Cambridge too. |
Giddens began his vampirious career by feeding of Marx. He attacks the latter as functionalist but has substantially borrowed and manipulated from him to build the edifice of his pragmatic modernist perspective in sociology.
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Resources Biographical |
Giddens in
a pint glass – summary of the arguments in Consequences of Modernity |
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Consequences of Modernity (1990) Beyond left and right Modernity and Self Identity A contemporary critique of
Historical Materialism |
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