Böcker av Anthony Giddens

Sociologi är en av världens ledande introduktionsböcker till sociologi och har under snart 25 år lästs av tusentals sociologi¿studenter över hela världen. Boken väver samman en internationell överblick över dagens samhällen med en gedigen genomgån...

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Den brittiske sociologiprofessorn Anthony Giddens är en av samtidens mest inflytelserika samhällsteoretiker. I Modernitetens följder redogör han för sin syn på det moderna samhällets tveeggade karaktär. Han menar att utvecklingen av de moderna sam...

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I Modernitet och självidentitet diskuterar Anthony Giddens, en av samtidens främsta samhällsteoretiker, förhållandet mellan moderniteten och det individuella jaget. Senmoderniteten är en post-traditionell ordning som enligt Giddens kännetecknas av...

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Sociology: A Brief but Critical Introduction offers a lively, discursive and jargon-free introduction to sociology, accessible to the lay reader as well as to the student. It incorporates discussion of recent developments in both social theory and...

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Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade. In The Constitution of Society he outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspe...

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Om globala förändringar och deras inverkan på hela vår tillvaro. Förändringarna är till övervägande delen positiva och bidrar till att befria kvinnorna, sprida demokratin och skapa ökat välstånd. Denna titel har tidigare givits ut av SNS förlag me...

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Now in its eighth edition, this continues to be the indispensable guide to understanding the world we make and the lives we lead. Revised and updated throughout, it remains unrivalled in its vibrant, engaging and authoritative introduction to soci...

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This major study develops a new account of modernity and its relation to the self. Building upon the ideas set out in The Consequences of Modernity, Giddens argues that 'high' or 'late' modernity is a post traditional order characterised by a deve...

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Built upon a series of critical encounters with major figures in classical and present--day social and political thought, this volume offers not only a challenging critique of major traditions of social and political analysis, but unique insights ...

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In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post--modern world. Rather the distinctive character...

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"A landmark study in the struggle to contain climate change, the greatest challenge of our era. I urge everyone to read it." Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States of America Since it first appeared, this book has achieved a c...

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The sexual revolution: an evocative term, but what meaning can be given to it today? How does 'sexuality' come into being and what connections does it have with the changes that have affected personal life on a more general plane? In answering the...

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Den sexuella revolutionen; en suggestiv term. Men vad står den för idag? Hur uppstår "sexualitet", och vilka är sambanden med de förändringar som har påverkat privatlivet på ett mer generellt plan?

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The sexual revolution: an evocative term, but what meaning can be given to it today? How does sexuality come into being and what connections does it have with the changes that have affected personal life on a more general plane? In answering these...

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'Before the current global era it is impossible to imagine that comparable events [like September 11] could have occurred, reflecting as they do our new-found interdependence. The rise of global terrorism, like world-wide networks involving in mon...

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Europe's social model - its system of welfare and social protection - is regarded by many as the jewel in the crown. It is what helps to give the European societies their distinctive qualities of social cohesion and care for the vulnerable. Over r...

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How should one understand the nature and possibilities of political radicalism today? The political radical is normally thought of as someone who stands on the left, opposing backward-looking conservatism. In the present day, however, the left has...

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Social life is in a constant process of change, and sociology can never stand still. As a result, sociology today is a theoretically diverse enterprise, covering a huge range of subjects and drawing on a broad array of research methods. Central to...

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What, if anything, is valid in Marx's work today, following the events of 1989 and after in Eastern Europe? The second edition of this highly regarded critical encounter with historical materialism and other major perspectives in social thought, s...

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What, if anything, is valid in Marx's work today, following the events of 1989 and after in Eastern Europe? The second edition of this highly regarded critical encounter with historical materialism and other major perspectives in social thought, s...

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Taking a topical approach to the subject and treating conceptual material only as it arises in the discussion, Giddens (London School of Economics, UK), Duneier (City U. of New York and Princeton U., US), and Appelbaum (U. of California at Santa B...

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'This little book is full of insights about who we are and where we are going.' - Financial Times The most accessible book yet by one of the most influential thinkers of our time, Runaway World evaluates the ever-increasing impact of globalization...

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In this new and brilliantly organized book of essays, Anthony Giddens discusses three main theoretical traditions in social science that cut across the division between Marxist and non-Marxist sociology: interpretive sociology, functionalism, and ...

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In recent years a remarkable range of new work has been produced dealing with class inequalities, the division of labor, and the state. In these writings scholars previously working in isolation from one another in sociology, economics, political ...

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This book outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described her for the fir...

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The social sciences have long been based upon contrasts drawn between the 'militaristic' societies of the past, and the 'capitalist' or 'industrial' societies of the present. But how valid are such contrasts, given that the current era is one stam...

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