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| ISBN: | 0203980611
9780203980613
0415095727
0415095735
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-231) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Anthony Giddens is arguably the world's leading sociologist. In this controversial contribution to the Giddens debate, Stjepan Mestrovic takes up and criticizes the major themes of his work - particularly the concept of 'high modernity' as opposed to 'postmodernity' and his attempted construction of a 'synthetic' tradition based on human agency and structure. Testing Giddens' theories against what is happening in the real world from genocide in Africa to near secession in Quebec, Mestrovic discerns in the construction of synthetic traditions not the promise of freedom held out by Giddens but r.
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| Other form: | Print version: Meštrović, Stjepan Gabriel. Anthony Giddens. London ; New York : Routledge, 1998 0415095727 0415095735
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