The consequences of modernity / Anthony Giddens.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge : Polity Press, 1991Description: ix, 186 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: 0745609236Subject(s): Social changeDDC classification: 303.44 Summary: Giddens argues that we are living in a high modernity period, rather than a postmodern period. He believes that the themes of security versus danger, and trust versus risk inform issues such as modern industry, military power and weaponry and the threats of totalitarianism, and environmental devastation.
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Originally published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1990.
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Giddens argues that we are living in a high modernity period, rather than a postmodern period. He believes that the themes of security versus danger, and trust versus risk inform issues such as modern industry, military power and weaponry and the threats of totalitarianism, and environmental devastation.
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