Modernity and Self-Identity
Self and Society in the Late Modern Age
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by Anthony Giddens
Stanford University Press
Due/Published
August 1991, 275 pages,
paper
ISBN
0804719446
The author argues that 'high' or 'late' modernity is a post-traditional order characterized by a developed institutional reflexivity. In the current period, the globalizing tendencies of modern institutions are accompanied by a transformation of day-to-day social life having profound implications for personal activities. |
