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999			_c147497 _d147497
020			_a9780745609232
040			_cCUS
082			_a305.5 _bGID/T
100			_aGiddens, Anthony
245		4	_aThe consequences of modernity/ _cAnthony Giddens
260			_aCambridge: _bPolity Press, _c1990.
300			_aix, 186 p. : _bill. ; _c23 cm.
440			_a(Social theory)
505			_aI. Introduction. -- 2. The discontinuities of modernity. -- 3. Security and danger, trust and risk. -- 4. Sociology and modernity. -- 5. Modernity, time, and space. -- 6. Disembedding. -- 7. Trust. -- 8. The reflexivity of modernity. -- 9. Modernity or post-modernity? -- 10. Summary. -- II. The institutional dimensions of modernity. -- 2. The globalising of modernity. -- 3. Two theoretical perspectives. -- 4. Dimensions of globalisation. -- III. Trust and modernity. -- 2. Trust in abstract systems. -- 3. Trust and expertise. -- 4. Trust and ontological security. -- 5. The pre-modern and the modern. -- IV. Abstract systems and the transformation of intimacy. -- 2. Trust and personal relations. -- 3. Trust and personal identity. -- 4. Risk and danger in the modern world. -- 5. Risk and ontological security. -- 6. Adaptive reactions. -- 7. A phenomenology of modernity. -- 8. Deskilling and reskilling in everyday life. -- 9. Objections to post-modernity. -- V. Riding the juggernaut. -- 2. Utopian realism. -- 3. Future orientations: the role of social movements. -- 4. Post-modernity. -- VI. Is modernity a Western project? -- 2. Concluding observations.
650			_aPostmodernism
650			_aSocial structure
650			_aCivilization
650			_aGlobalization--Social aspects
942			_cWB16