Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern AgeJohn Wiley & Sons, 30.04.2013 - 264 Seiten This major study develops a new account of modernity and its relation to the self. Building upon the ideas set out in The Consequences of Modernity, Giddens argues that 'high' or 'late' modernity is a post traditional order characterised by a developed institutional reflexivity. In the current period, the globalising tendencies of modern institutions are accompanied by a transformation of day-to-day social life having profound implications for personal activities. The self becomes a 'reflexive project', sustained through a revisable narrative of self identity. The reflexive project of the self, the author seeks to show, is a form of control or mastery which parallels the overall orientation of modern institutions towards 'colonising the future'. Yet it also helps promote tendencies which place that orientation radically in question - and which provide the substance of a new political agenda for late modernity. In this book Giddens concerns himself with themes he has often been accused of unduly neglecting, including especially the psychology of self and self-identity. The volumes are a decisive step in the development of his thinking, and will be essential reading for students and professionals in the areas of social and political theory, sociology, human geography and social psychology. |
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... mechanisms of self-identity which are shaped by — yet also shape — the institutions of modernity. The self is not a passive entity, determined by external influences; in forging their self-identities, no matter how local their specific ...
... mechanisms of self-identity which are shaped by — yet also shape — the institutions of modernity. The self is not a passive entity, determined by external influences; in forging their self-identities, no matter how local their specific ...
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... mechanisms — mechanisms which prise social relations free from the hold of specific locales, recombining them across wide time-space distances. The reorganisation of time and space, plus the disembedding mechanisms, radicalise and ...
... mechanisms — mechanisms which prise social relations free from the hold of specific locales, recombining them across wide time-space distances. The reorganisation of time and space, plus the disembedding mechanisms, radicalise and ...
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... mechanisms and abstract systems. In its generic manifestations, trust is directly linked to achieving an early sense of ontological security. Trust established between an infant and its caretakers provides an 'inoculation' which screens ...
... mechanisms and abstract systems. In its generic manifestations, trust is directly linked to achieving an early sense of ontological security. Trust established between an infant and its caretakers provides an 'inoculation' which screens ...
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... mechanisms, or the rise of totalitarian superstates, are an equally unavoidable part of our contemporary experience. In high modernity, the influence of distant happenings on proximate events, and on intimacies of the self, becomes more ...
... mechanisms, or the rise of totalitarian superstates, are an equally unavoidable part of our contemporary experience. In high modernity, the influence of distant happenings on proximate events, and on intimacies of the self, becomes more ...
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... mechanisms of suppression, rather than actualisation, of self. Yet it would be a major error to suppose that the phenomena analysed in the book are confined in their impact to those in more privileged material circumstances. 'Lifestyle ...
... mechanisms of suppression, rather than actualisation, of self. Yet it would be a major error to suppose that the phenomena analysed in the book are confined in their impact to those in more privileged material circumstances. 'Lifestyle ...
Inhalt
Ontological Security and Existential Anxiety | |
The Trajectory of the Self | |
Fate Risk and Security | |
The Sequestration of Experience | |
Tribulations of the Self | |
The Emergence of Life Politics | |
Notes | |
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Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age Anthony Giddens Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1991 |
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