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…

This study locates Giddens’ work in the framework of modern social theory and research traditions. Giddens’ work is compared and contrasted with that of Habermas, Foucault, Bourdieu, Elias and Parsons…

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.

Looking both to the past of sociology and the diversity of intellectual trends found in the present-day, the book explores many aspects of the sociological heritage. Comte, Durkheim, Parsons, Marshall…

This book brings together leading experts in the field to develop a new agenda for the centre–left. In his extensive introduction, Anthony Giddens draws the threads together to sketch a…

Since it first appeared, this book has achieved a classic status. It remains the only work that looks in detail at the political issues posed by global warming. This new…

Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade.