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| Anthony Giddens (New Labour ideologue) | ||||||
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Reflexivity, radicalised modernity, sociology, risk, trust, functionalismWeber, Durkheim, Parsons, Marx (critical) Ulrich Beck New Labour ideologue, bigwig of mainstream sociology |
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| Giddens began his vampirious career by feeding off Marx. He attacks the latter as functionalist but has substantially borrowed and manipulated from him to build the edifice of his pragmatic modernist perspective in sociology. | ||||||
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Giddens in a pint glass � summary of the arguments in Consequences of Modernity Functionalism apres la lutte - short notes on Giddens The concept of structure - Extract from Social Theory and Modern Sociology |
| Bibliography |
Consequences of Modernity (1990) Beyond left and right Modernity and self-identity A contemporary critique of Historical Materialism Social Theory and Modern Sociology |
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