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	Anthony Giddens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens (born January 18, 1938) is a British sociologist who is renowned for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies.
		Giddens writes that the connection between structure and action is a fundamental element of social theory, structure and agency are a duality that cannot be conceived of apart from one another and his main argument is contained in his expression "duality of structure".
		Giddens agrees that there are very specific changes that mark our current era, but argues that it is not a "post-modern era", but just a "radicalised modernity era" (similar to Zygmunt Bauman's concept of liquid modernity), produced by the extension of the same social forces that shaped the previous age.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anthony_Giddens (5156 words)

	Structuration Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The handout from Giddens examines a number of different issues, four aspects of society that are seemingly contradictory and are "dilemmas of the self" but which may also be resolvable as different aspects of contemporary society.
		Anthony Giddens is one of the foremost contemporary sociological theorists.
		Giddens notes how time and space, or at least our concepts and understanding of these, as well as their material implications, have changed dramatically in recent years, and the relation of people to these in the contemporary social world differs from that of earlier societies.
	uregina.ca /~gingrich/f300.htm (1760 words)

	Edge: THE SECOND GLOBALIZATION DEBATE
		As Anthony Giddens, director of the London School of Economics, writes, "we have the chance to take over where the 20th century failed, and a key project for us is to drag the history of the 21st century away from that of the 20th."
		According to Giddens, "the driving force of the new globalization is the communications revolution," and beyond its effects on the individual, this revolution is fundamentally altering the way public institutions interact.
		Giddens uses the idea of risk as an essential component of this future-oriented environment, asserting that scientific innovation explores "the edge between the positive and negative sides of risk." Risk management, then, becomes a necessary a field of analysis.
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/giddens/giddens_index.html (455 words)

	Edge: ANTHONY GIDDENS
		Appointed as Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 1997, ANTHONY GIDDENS was previously a Fellow and Professor of Sociology at King's College, Cambridge.
		Anthony Giddens is the most widely-read and cited social theorist of his generation.
		Anthony Giddens has travelled to many countries around the world talking to political leaders and heads of state about the development of third way politics.
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/bios/giddens.html (346 words)

	Stjepan Mestrovic. Anthony Giddens: The Last Modernist.
		Giddens is a modernist because, like these ancestors, he believes in an absolute rupture between tradition and modernity, in emancipation through universal reason, and the possibility of a globally applicable social theory.
		Giddens irons out the contradictions and ‘wildness of enlightenment thought to give us an image of agency as cognitive reason that, free of all non-rational and emotional demands, is able to rationally synthesize its own traditions and create social order.
		Giddens’ social theory is not only an unfaithful picture of the social world then, it is directly implicated in these sorts of horrors : “The West’s complicity in the genocide in Bosnia is the most serious indictment of the goals and values that Giddens holds dear” (p.
	www.cjsonline.ca /reviews/giddens.html (1146 words)

	Anthony Giddens' Major Works
		Giddens argues that the transformation of intimacy, in which women have played the major part, holds out the possibility of a radical democratization of the personal sphere.
		Anthony Giddens has described been as "the most important English social philosopher of our time." Over 25 years, with a dazzling series of books that attest to his unrelenting productivity, he has established himself as today's most widely read and widely cited social theorist.
		Giddens concentrates primarily upon the implications of these various perspectives for an account of human action and its intelligibility.
	www.faculty.rsu.edu /~felwell/Theorists/Giddens/MajorWorks.html (887 words)

	Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity
		Instead, Giddens proposes that, theoretically, we need to take account of the fact that modernity precisely entails the rapid expansion of interconnections and ties across social, cultural, and class systems; which in the process redefines the interrelationships and boundaries between these abstract categories and the real people who fall within them.
		Then, Giddens reflects on the capability of contemporary contours of identity/agency to "ride the juggernaut" of globalization and foster social movements for labor, democracy, peace, and ecology, within the stance of "utopian realism", as ways to mitigate collective risks and bring greater social accountability and responsibility to globalizing institutions.
		Finally, Giddens concludes by suggesting that "social movements provide glimpses of possible futures and are in some part vehicles for their realization." Thus, he is cautiously hopeful, but by no means suggests that the future fate of globalization or its global institutions is clear.
	www.columbia.edu /~ps319/review/Giddens.html (621 words)

	Anthony Giddens - Book Information
		Anthony Giddens is one of the world's most prominent and prolific sociologists, and yet he is also a difficult study for the beginning student of sociology.
		This is the first introduction to the work of Giddens, including the major part of his sociological and social theoretical project.
		The author traces Giddens' development from the late sixties to the nineties in a straightforward, readable style, covering all parts of Giddens's sociology in a well-arranged summary.
	www.blackwellpublishing.com /book.asp?ref=0631207341 (272 words)

	Anthony Giddens: Introduction to Structuration Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Giddens deplores the way that sociologists seem to focus either on individual agency or on social structure.
		The structure to which Giddens refers is much more complex than the old fixed and immutable structure of which we commonly speak.
		Giddens sees the modern construct of structuration as not external to the individual, but as interdependent with the individual.
	www.csudh.edu /dearhabermas/giddens01.htm (127 words)

	Anthony Giddens
		Das gelang ihr auch weitgehend und zumeist zum Wohl ihres Landes, was Giddens in diesem Kontext verschweigt.
		Giddens plädiert für eine , die Wohlstand schafft durch Investierung in Humankapital anstelle von direkten Zahlungen.
		Anthony Giddens, geboren 1938, aus einfachen Verhältnissen stammend, studierte an der University of Hull Soziologie und Psychologie, machte ein masters on sport and society an der London School of Economics (LSE).
	www.cosmopolis.ch /cosmo4/Giddens.htm (1930 words)

	Amazon.fr : Runaway World: Livres en anglais: Anthony Giddens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		As director of the London School of Economics, Anthony Giddens is one of the world's foremost academics.
		In this brief book on globalization (drawn from a series of lectures delivered in 1999), Giddens writes, "We are living through a major period of historical transition." Globalization is reordering societies all over the planet, and although the results are sometimes unpredictable, they are heading in a generally positive direction.
		Giddens is not coy about where he stands: "We can legitimately hope that a cosmopolitan outlook will win out." In what is sure to be a controversial chapter, he examines sex and family life through the prism of this fundamentalist-cosmopolitan divide.
	www.amazon.fr /Runaway-World-Anthony-Giddens/dp/1861974299 (613 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Sociology: Books: Anthony Giddens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Giddens has endeavoured to pitch his textbook at the 'cutting edge' of sociology and he has succeeded.
		Giddens tells us that Sociology starts with Comte and ends with Giddens and that it is extremely politically correct.
		Giddens text is captivating and intriguing to those who already have an interest in the subject, and basic enough for those who haven't yet got a grounding in sociology to develop one.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Sociology-Anthony-Giddens/dp/0745623115 (744 words)

	Reviewed: Anthony Giddens "The Third Way & Its Critics"
		The basic thrust of the Third Way as championed by Giddens is an argument to balance the undoubted energy of capitalism with the need to foster social solidarity and civic values.
		Giddens points out that national governments are limited by historical developments in how far they can manage economic life and provide social benefits.
		Giddens talks about structural constitutional reforms but unless we also seek to encourage a diversified and critical media the active citizens he would like to see will be in short supply.
	www.thirdway.org /files/reviews/giddens2.html (904 words)

	Amazon.ca: On the Edge: Books: Anthony Giddens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Anthony Giddens is the Director and Will Hutton is a governor of the London School of Economics.
		Giddens tells the German government to reform its labour market and welfare system to make it more like the market, because "existing structures of the welfare state are no longer able to deliver".
		Hutton and Giddens tell us that after the coal-based industrial revolution, then the oil-fired economy, we are now in the third revolution, the third way of the 'knowledge-based', 'weightless', 'dematerialised' economy.
	www.amazon.ca /Edge-Anthony-Giddens/dp/0224059378 (1026 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Reith Lectures 1999 - Runaway World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In 1999 Professor Anthony Giddens was director of the London School of Economics.
		Anthony Giddens was born in London in 1938 and educated at Minchenden School, Southgate.
		He studied sociology and psychology at the University of Hull, and gained post-graduate degrees from the LSE and the University of Cambridge.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/reith1999/lecturer.shtml (284 words)

	Transformation of Intimacyby Anthony Giddens, , Search Cheap Books, Discount Books, ISBN 0745612393
		It is Giddens' thesis that women have been the revolutionaries in a sea change that has occurred within the nature and structure of the family.
		Giddens introduces the idea of "pure relationship", a relationship freely entered into for mutual benefit for as long as it is beneficial as a contrast with earlier notions of marriage as role and obligation.
		Giddens feels this change is part of a radical "democratization" of society going on at its most micro levels.
	www.comparebookprices.ca /book_detail/0745612393 (439 words)

	Amazon.com: Introduction to Sociology: Books: Anthony Giddens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In Anthony Giddens's Introduction to Sociology, students learn from a perspective unmatched by other texts: one that applies a global perspective to the core introductory topics and recognizes the field;'' historical foundations without losing sight of contemporary theory and research.
		Giddens builds the basic introductory material around several central themes-the changing world, the globalization of social life, life in other societies, history and gender-that provide students with a useful organizational structure to help them learn the multiplicity of idea and topics presented in the introductory course.
		Anthony Giddens, a world-renowned social theorist, is director of the London School of Economics and Political Science and serves as an adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair.
	www.amazon.com /Introduction-Sociology-Anthony-Giddens/dp/0393968685 (1469 words)

	SAGE Publications - Anthony Giddens and Modern Social Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Giddens is widely recognized as one of the most important sociologists of the post-war period.
		Giddens himself saw this duality as a major failing of social theories of modernity.
		His attempt to resolve the problem can be regarded as the key to the development of his brandmark "structuration theory." The book investigates the ways in which Giddens's approach to agency and institutions draws on theorists such as Wittgenstein and Goffman, who failed to develop a "macro" approach to sociology.
	www.sagepub.com /booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book205069 (316 words)

	NS Library - Anthony Giddens
		He is on the short side and balding, although he carries himself with the demeanour of the devoted sportsman, which in fact he is. A group of 30 of us met him on Saturday last to discuss the political future of Russia, concentrating mainly on oil, gas and geopolitics.
		NS Labour conference 2004 - Anthony Giddens argues that new Labour needs to embrace a new egalitarianism if it is to take further its commitment to social justice.
		Anthony Giddens hails the Swedes, Danes and Finns as true followers of the Third Way.
	www.newstatesman.com /writers/Anthony_Giddens (503 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Anthony Giddens, the Positive Critic: the Dialogue with Classical and Modern Sociology.
		2 Giddens as Constructor: the Theory of Structuration as a Response to the Dualism of Social Theory.
		6 Giddens and Politics: toward Positive Welfare, Generative Politics, and the Radical Center.
	www.blackwellpublishing.com /bookxml.asp?isbn=0631207341 (167 words)

	Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Anthony Giddens is by common agreement the most widely cited contemporary sociologist in the world.
		Since coming to the LSE as Director in 1997, Giddens has devoted himself to further elevating the reputation and profile of the School.
		Anthony Giddens has been awarded 14 honorary degrees.
	old.lse.ac.uk /collections/meetthedirector/introduction.htm (456 words)

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