Author: Anthony Gidde
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: lives, reshaping, globalization, world, runaway
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 2002-12-26
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0415944872
ISBN-13: 9780415944878

As director of the London School of Economics, Anthony Giddens is one of the world’s foremost academics. He has served as an advisor to both President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair, and is closely tied to the center-left idea of "third-way" politics. 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 direct

Author: Anthony Gidde
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: modernity, consequences
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 1991-03-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0804718911
ISBN-13: 9780804718912

In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provoctive interpretation of institutional transformations associated with modernity. What is modernity? The author suggests, “As a first approximation, let us simply say the following: ‘modernity’ refers to modes of social life or organization which emerged in Europe from about the seventeenth century onwards and which subsequently became more or less worldwide in their influence.”We do not as yet, the author argues, live in a post-modern world. The distinctive characteristics of our major social institutions

Author: Anthony Gidde
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: modern, society, identity, modernity
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1991-07-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0804719446
ISBN-13: 9780804719445

Modernity differs from all preceding forms of social order because of its dynamism, its deep undercutting of traditional habits and customs, and its global impact. It also radicallly alters the general nature of daily life and the most personal aspects of human activity. In fact, one of the most distinctive features of modernity is the increasing interconnection between globalizing influences and personal dispositions. The author analyzes the nature of this interconnection and provides a conceptual vocabulary for it, in the process providing a major rethinking of the nature of modernity and a

Author: Anthony Gidde
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: marx, durkheim, max, weber, writings, analysis, modern, social, theory, capitalism
Number of Pages: 261
Published: 1973-03-30
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0521097851
ISBN-13: 9780521097857

Giddens’s analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim and Weber has become the classic text for any student seeking to understand the three thinkers who established the basic framework of contemporary sociology. The first three sections of the book, based on close textual examination of the original sources, contain separate treatments of each writer. The author demonstrates the internal coherence of their respective contributions to social theory. The concluding section discusses the principal ways in which Marx can be compared with the other two authors, and discusses misconceptions of

Author: Anthony Gidde
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: change, climate, politics
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-05-04
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 074564693X
ISBN-13: 9780745646930

"A landmark study in the struggle to contain climate change, the greatest challenge of our era. I urge everyone to read it." Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States of America Climate change differs from any other problem that, as collective humanity, we face today. If it goes unchecked, the consequences are likely to be catastrophic for human life on earth. Yet for most people, and for many policy-makers too, it tends to be a ’back of the mind’ issue. We recognise its importance and even its urgency, but for the most part it is swamped by more immediate concerns. Polit

Author: Anthony Gidde
Publisher: Polity Pr
Keywords: readings, introductory, sociology
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0745648843
ISBN-13: 9780745648842

This is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the best-selling introductory reader in sociology. The book offers a comprehensive, yet challenging set of readings for students approaching the study of sociology for the first time. A strong emphasis has been placed upon readability and liveliness. The volume includes contributions from newspapers and weekly periodicals, as well as from academic journals. It is designed as a companion to Giddens’s Sociology, but can also be used independently, or alongside other textbooks.The book maintains the distinctive approach which Sociology pio

Author: Anthony Gidde
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Keywords: materialism, historical, critique, contemporary
Number of Pages: 2
Published: 1982-06-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0520044908
ISBN-13: 9780520044906

The social sciences have long been based upon contrasts drawn between the ’militaristic’ societies of the past, and the ’capitalist’ or ’industrial’ societies of the present. But how valid are such contrasts, given that the current era is one stamped by the impact of war and by the intensive development of sophisticated weaponry?In setting out to address this and similar questions, this book investigates issues that have been substantially neglected by those working in sociology and social theory. Anthony Giddens offers a sociological analysis of the nature