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- | # Anthony Giddens # | ||
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- | Anthony Giddens is an influential theorist of society most known for his concept of structuration, | ||
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- | Giddens saw that social theories of modernity were also biased in another, related way. Theorists of modernity in the Western tradition tended to describe social change as a liberation of individuals from groups, traditions, religion and the power of institutional structures. In these theories, "city air makes you free," or increasing complexity creates more choices and opportunities for individuals, | ||
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- | ## References ## | ||
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- | Giddens, Anthony. 1979. Central Problems in Social Theory: Action, Structure, and Contradiction in Social Analysis. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. | ||
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- | ———. 1990. The Consequences of Modernity. London: Polity Press. | ||
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