Stjepan Mestrovic takes up and criticises the major themes of Giddens’ work - the concept of ‘high modernity’ as opposed to ‘postmodernity’ and his attempted construction of a ‘synthetic’ tradition…

The studies which comprise this book are essentially organized around a critical encounter with European social theory in its ‘classical period’ - i.e. from the middle years of the nineteenth…

Discusses three main theoretical traditions in social science that cut across the division between Marxist and non-Marxist sociology: interpretive sociology, functionalism, and structuralism. The author argues that it is essential…

An interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. The author focuses on analysing the the intersections between trust and risk,and security and danger in the modern world.

Giddens disputes many of the dominant interpretations of the role of sexuality in modern culture, arguing that the transformation of intimacy, in which women have played the major part, heralds…

Breaking with the insularity that has marked much political debate in the UK, this title draws on the experience of social democrats in other countries. It argues that New Labour…

Anthony Giddens sets out his agenda for the New Labour of today, who stand once again at a decisive point in its history. He argues that a change of leadership…

These interviews of one of the leading social theorists of the contemporary period, conducted shortly after he became Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science, cover the…