(P/B) THE CONSEQUENCES OF MODERNITY

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In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post-modern world. Rather the distinctive characteristics of our major social institutions in the closing period of the twentieth century express the emergence of a period of 'high modernity,' in which prior trends are radicalised rather than undermined. A post-modern social universe may eventually come into being, but this as yet lies 'on the other side' of the forms of social and cultural organization which currently dominate world history.
In developing an account of the nature of modernity, Giddens concentrates upon analyzing the intersections between trust and risk, and security and danger, in the modern world. Both the trust mechanisms associated with modernity and the distinctive 'risk profile' it produces, he argues, are distinctively different from those characteristic of pre-modern social orders.
This book build upon the author's previous theoretical writings, and will be of fundamental interest to anyone concerned with Gidden's overall project. However, the work covers issues which the author has not previously analyzed and extends the scope of his work into areas of pressing practical concern. This book will be essential reading for second year undergraduates and above in sociology, politics, philosophy, and cultural studies. (From the publisher)

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Part I
Introduction
The Discontinuities of Modernity
Security and Danger, Trust and Risk
Sociology and Modernity
Modernity, Time and Space
Disembedding
Trust
The Reflexivity of Modernity
Modernity and Post- Modernity?
Summary
Part II
The Institutional Dimensions of Modernity
The Globalizing of Modernity
Two Theoretical Perspectives
Dimensions of Globalization
Part III
Trust and Modernity
Trust in Abstract Systems
Trust and Expertise
Trust and Ontological Security
The Pre-Modern and Modern
Part IV:
Abstract Systems and the Transformation of Intimacy
Trust and Personal Relations
Trust and Personal Identity
Risk and Danger in the Modern World
Risk and Ontological Security
Adaptive Reactions
A Phenomonology of Modernity
Deskilling and Reskilling in Everyday Life
Objections to Post-Modernity
Part V
Riding the Juggernaut
Utopian Realism
Future Orientations
The Role of Social Movements
Post-Modernity
Part VI
Is Modernity and Western Project?
Concluding Observations
Notes