Anthony Giddens : the last modernist /

Anthony Giddens : the last modernist /

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Author / Creator:	Meštrović, Stjepan Gabriel.
Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 242 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Giddens, Anthony. Giddens, Anthony. Sociology -- Methodology. Postmodernism. Social structure. Sociology -- Great Britain. Postmodernism. Social structure. Sociology. Sociology -- Methodology. Great Britain. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12010969

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ISBN:	0203980611 9780203980613 0415095727 0415095735
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-231) and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Meštrović, Stjepan Gabriel. Anthony Giddens. London ; New York : Routledge, 1998 0415095727 0415095735

Table of Contents:

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 ANTHONY GIDDENS; 3 THE NEW VERSUS THE OLD RULES OF SOCIOLOGICAL METHOD; 4 THE ROLE OF DESIRE IN AGENCY AND STRUCTURE; 5 GIDDENS'S POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY; 6 GIDDENS'S MODERNISM LITE; 7 UNLIMITED AGENCY AS THE NEW ANOMIE; 8 CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX.