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<p><p>in This Major Theoretical Statement, The Author Offers A New And Provoctive Interpretation Of Institutional Transformations Associated With Modernity. What Is Modernity? The Author Suggests, “as A First Approximation, Let Us Simply Say The Following: ‘modernity’ Refers To Modes Of Social Life Or Organization Which Emerged In Europe From About The Seventeenth Century Onwards And Which Subsequently Became More Or Less Worldwide In Their Influence.”<br>we Do Not As Yet, The Author Argues, Live In A Post-modern World. The Distinctive Characteristics Of Our Major Social Institutions In The Closing Years Of The Twentieth Century Suggest That, Rather Than Entering Into A Period Of Post-modernity, We Are Moving Into A Period Of “high Modernity” In Which The Consequences Of Modernity Are Becoming More Radicalized And Universalized Than Before. A Post-modern Social Universe May Eventualy Come Into Being, But This As Yet Lies On The Other Side Of The Forms Of Social And Cultural Organization That Currently Dominate World History.<br>in Developing A Fresh Characterization Of The Nature Of Modernity, The Author Concentrates On The Themes Of Security
- Author
- Giddens, Anthony
- Publisher
- Polity Press in association with Basil Blackwell, Oxford, UK
- Published
- 1990
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780745609232
- Subjects
- Sociology, Social Science, Social_sciences
- Rating
- 3.77 / 5 (492 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14