03230nam 2200601 a 450 991045560980332120200520144314.01-84964-112-90-585-48883-5(CKB)111087027772072(StDuBDS)AH22933411(SSID)ssj0000247965(PQKBManifestationID)12050448(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000247965(PQKBWorkID)10200161(PQKB)10542647(MiAaPQ)EBC3386235(Au-PeEL)EBL3386235(CaPaEBR)ebr10479729(CaONFJC)MIL987616(OCoLC)53981931(EXLCZ)9911108702777207220030212d2003 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe sociology of Anthony Giddens[electronic resource] /Steven LoyalLondon ;Sterling, Va. Pluto Press20031 online resource (256 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7453-1780-4 0-7453-1781-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.The political and sociological project -- Knowledge and epistemology -- Agency -- Social structure -- Time, space, and historical sociology -- Modernity -- Rationality and reflexivity -- Politics and the third way -- An alternative sociology.Anthony Giddens is one of the most famous and influential sociologists of recent decades. Largely credited with the concept of the 'Third Way', he continues to be a key advisor to Tony Blair, and is generally presented as an exponent of liberalism and socialism. He was the 1999 BBC Reith lecturer and he has been Professor of Sociology at Cambridge University since 1986.This original and controversial book provides an excellent introduction to Giddens' work, covering the wide range of his writing from theory to self-reflexivity, modernity and politics, placing them all within the illuminating framework of a historical context. Steven Loyal argues that Giddens' writing has always embodied a political and ethical position, one that has changed considerably over the years and is best understood through the social context in which it was written. Giddens' work in the 1970's attempted to marry liberalism and socialism, but, following the collapse of Communism in the 1990 East-European revolutions, his worldview became liberal rather than socialist, and his later work on reflexivity and the 'Third Way' embodies this. Loyal explores how this world-view accounts for many tensions and failures in Giddens' theory and that, overall, his work is fundamentally flawed.SociologyPhilosophySocial structureCivilization, ModernElectronic books.SociologyPhilosophy.Social structure.Civilization, Modern.301/.01Loyal Steven476416MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455609803321Sociology of Anthony Giddens244113UNINA