LEADER 03196nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910780209903321 005 20230207223214.0 010 $a1-84964-112-9 010 $a0-585-48883-5 035 $a(CKB)111087027772072 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH22933411 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000247965 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12050448 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000247965 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10200161 035 $a(PQKB)10542647 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3386235 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3386235 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10479729 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL987616 035 $a(OCoLC)53981931 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027772072 100 $a20030212d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe sociology of Anthony Giddens$b[electronic resource] /$fSteven Loyal 210 $aLondon ;$aSterling, Va. $cPluto Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7453-1780-4 311 $a0-7453-1781-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $bAnthony 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. 606 $aSociology$xPhilosophy 606 $aSocial structure 606 $aCivilization, Modern 615 0$aSociology$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aSocial structure. 615 0$aCivilization, Modern. 676 $a301/.01 700 $aLoyal$b Steven$0476416 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780209903321 996 $aSociology of Anthony Giddens$9244113 997 $aUNINA