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Modernity and Self-Identity
Self and Society in the Late Modern Age
Langbeschreibung
Modernity differs from all preceding forms of social order because of its dynamism, its deep undercutting of traditional habits and customs, and its global impact. It also radicallly alters the general nature of daily life and the most personal aspects of human activity. In fact, one of the most distinctive features of modernity is the increasing interconnection between globalizing influences and personal dispositions. The author analyzes the nature of this interconnection and provides a conceptual vocabulary for it, in the process providing a major rethinking of the nature of modernity and a reworking of basic premises of sociological analysis.Building on the ideas set out in the authors The Consequences of Modernity
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The contours of high modernity; 2. The self: ontological security and existential anxiety; 3. The trajectory of the self; 4. Fate, risk, and security; 5. The sequestration of experience; 6. Tribulations of the self; 7. The emergence of life politics; Notes; Glossary of concepts; Index.
Anthony Giddens
ISBN-13:
9780804719445
Veröffentl:
1991
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.07.1991
Seiten:
264
Autor:
Anthony Giddens
Gewicht:
390 g
Format:
228x155x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch