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The Right Honourable
The Lord Giddens
GCIH MAE
Giddens in 2004
Born
Anthony Giddens
(1938-01-18) 18 January 1938 (age 86)
London, England
Other names
Tony Giddens
Title
Director of the London School of Economics (1996–2003)
Political party
Labour
Academic background
Alma mater
University of Hull
London School of Economics
King's College, Cambridge
Thesis
Sport and Society in Contemporary Britain (1961)
Academic advisors
David Lockwood
Influences
Ulrich Beck
Cornelius Castoriadis
Noam Chomsky
Wilhelm Dilthey
Émile Durkheim
Norbert Elias
Michel Foucault
Sigmund Freud
Erving Goffman
Jürgen Habermas
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Niklas Luhmann
Karl Marx
Robert K. Merton
Talcott Parsons
Alfred Schütz
Max Weber
Academic work
Discipline
Sociology
Sub-discipline
Political sociology
social theory
Institutions
University of Leicester
King's College, Cambridge
London School of Economics
Doctoral students
Nigel Dodd
Notable works
The Constitution of Society (1984)
The Third Way (1998)
Notable ideas
Double hermeneutic
duality of structure
structuration theory
third way
Influenced
Margaret Archer
Stephen R. Barley
Zygmunt Bauman
Helen A. Berger[1]
Tony Blair
Colin J. McInnes[2]
Wanda Orlikowski
Jeffrey Weeks[3]
Alexander Wendt
Anthony Giddens, Baron GiddensGCIH MAE (born 18 January 1938) is an English sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern sociologists and is the author of at least 34 books, published in at least 29 languages, issuing on average more than one book every year. In 2007, Giddens was listed as the fifth most-referenced author of books in the humanities.[4][5] He has academic appointments in approximately twenty different universities throughout the world and has received numerous honorary degrees.[6]
Four notable stages can be identified in his academic life. The first one involved outlining a new vision of what sociology is, presenting a theoretical and methodological understanding of that field based on a critical reinterpretation of the classics. His major publications of that era include Capitalism and Modern Social Theory (1971) and The Class Structure of the Advanced Societies (1973). In the second stage, Giddens developed the theory of structuration, an analysis of agency and structure in which primacy is granted to neither. His works of that period, such as New Rules of Sociological Method (1976), Central Problems in Social Theory (1979) and The Constitution of Society (1984), brought him international fame on the sociological arena. The third stage of Giddens's academic work was concerned with modernity, globalisation and politics, especially the impact of modernity on social and personal life. This stage is reflected by his critique of postmodernity and discussions of a new "utopian-realist"[7] Third Way in politics which is visible in The Consequences of Modernity (1990), Modernity and Self-Identity (1991), The Transformation of Intimacy (1992), Beyond Left and Right (1994) and The Third Way (1998). Giddens' ambition was both to recast social theory and to re-examine our understanding of the development and trajectory of modernity.
In the most recent stage, Giddens has turned his attention to a more concrete range of problems relevant to the evolution of world society, namely environmental issues, focussing especially upon debates about climate change, analysed in successive editions of his book The Politics of Climate Change (2009); the role and nature of the European Union in Turbulent and Mighty Continent (2014); and in a series of lectures and speeches also the nature and consequences of the Digital Revolution.
Giddens served as Director of the London School of Economics from 1997 to 2003, where he is now Emeritus Professor at the Department of Sociology. He is a life fellow of King's College, Cambridge.[8] According to the Open Syllabus Project, Giddens is the most frequently cited author on college syllabi for sociology courses.[9]
^Berger, Helen A. (1999). A Community of Witches: Contemporary Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft in the United States. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press. pp. xiii, 6. ISBN 978-1-57003-246-2.
^McInnes, Colin J.; Roemer-Mahler, Anne (2017). "From Security to Risk: Reframing Global Health Threats". International Affairs. 93 (6): 1319–1321. doi:10.1093/ia/iix187. ISSN 1468-2346.
^Waites, Matthew (2010). "Jeffrey Weeks and the History of Sexuality". History Workshop Journal. 69 (69): 262. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.1029.4950. doi:10.1093/hwj/dbq005. ISSN 1477-4569. JSTOR 40646109. S2CID 145387588.
^Gill, J. (2009) Giddens trumps Marx but French thinkers triumph, Times Higher Education, 26 March 2009
^Times Higher Education Most cited authors of books in the humanities, 2007, Times Higher Education, 26 March 2009.
^Caves, R. W. (2004). Encyclopedia of the City. Routledge. p. 304.
^Halpin, David, Hope and Education: The Role of the Utopian Imagination, Routledge, 2003, ISBN 0-415-23368-2, Google Print p. 63.
^"UniSA honours influential social theorist Professor Lord Anthony Giddens". unisa.edu.au. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
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2011. Retrieved 4 November 2011. Giddens, Anthony. "The Constitution of Society". In Philip Cassell (ed.). The Giddens Reader. MacMillan Press. p. 88....
launched by a joint effort of three of the leading European sociologists: AnthonyGiddens, Ulrich Beck and Scott Lash. The introduction of this concept served...
A., & Jary, D. (1991). Coming to terms with AnthonyGiddens. In C.G.A. Bryant & D. Jary (Eds.), Giddens' theory of structuration: A critical appreciation...
Giddens 1979, p. 69. Giddens, Anthony (1979). Central Problems in Social Theory. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-0-333-27293-0. Giddens, Anthony (1984)...
refer to the concept of legal transfers and inheritance. According to AnthonyGiddens and others, the modern meaning of tradition evolved during the Enlightenment...
of Intimacy is a book by AnthonyGiddens published in 1992. Bryant, Christopher G. A.; Jary, David (1997). AnthonyGiddens: Critical Assessments. Taylor...
incorporated into a single world society." In The Consequences of Modernity, AnthonyGiddens writes: "Globalization can thus be defined as the intensification of...
social structure with agency are AnthonyGiddens' theory of structuration and Pierre Bourdieu's practice theory. Giddens emphasizes the duality of structure...
we have done to nature." AnthonyGiddens (1999) “Risk and Responsibility” Modern Law Review 62(1): 4 Professor AnthonyGiddens. "Runaway World, Lecture...
individual parts (i.e. its constituent actors, human subjects). — AnthonyGiddens, The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration...
Giddens, Anthony (1998b). The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy. Cambridge, England: Polity Press. ISBN 978-0-7456-2266-8. Giddens, Anthony (2003)...
p. 221. Giddens, The Constitution of Society (Cambridge: Polity, 1984), p. 20. Giddens, A., & Pierson, C., Conversations with AnthonyGiddens (Cambridge:...
philosophy of New Labour was influenced by the party's development of AnthonyGiddens' Third Way which attempted to provide a synthesis between capitalism...
product of dynamic interactions between social actors and structure. AnthonyGiddens and Michel de Certeau, who also wrote on practice theory in the late...
original on 2017-09-04. Retrieved 12 February 2001. Anthony Elliott, Concepts of the Self AnthonyGiddens, Modernity and self-identity: self and society in...
Risk society was coined by Ulrich Beck and AnthonyGiddens during the 1980s. According to Beck and Giddens, the traditional industrial class structure...
Geschichtsforschung 4, Cologne and Graz: Böhlau Verlag. Giddens, Anthony. 1998. Conversations with AnthonyGiddens: Making Sense of Modernity. Stanford, Calif.:...
has been largely traditional to a post-traditional time is AnthonyGiddens, Baron Giddens. Personal development Economic freedom, Individualism and Economic...
improved as global inequality has been reduced. Patrick Diamond and AnthonyGiddens (professors of Economics and Sociology, respectively) hold that 'pure...
Postmodernism (1996), which was itself inspired by AnthonyGiddens' The Constitution of Society (1984), where Giddens outlined his "theory of structuration". In...
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