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Anthony Giddens is arguably the world's leading sociologist. In this controversial contribution to the Giddens debate, Stjepan Mestrovic takes up and criticizes the major themes of his work - particularly the concept of 'high modernity' as opposed to 'postmodernity' and his attempted construction of a 'synthetic' tradition based on human agency and structure. Testing Giddens' theories against... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Anthony Giddens: The Last Modernist 3. The New Versus the Old Rules of Sociological Method 4. The Role of Desire in Agency and Structure 5. Gidden’s Political Sociology 6. Gidden’s Modernism Lite 7. Unlimited Agency as the New Anomie 8. Conclusions
Biography
Dr Stjepan Mestrovic (Author)
