Giddens Anthony

This author's articles

• Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

  25 March 2005
  This the second work that put risk at the centre of European social theory debates and focuses more on the processes that link the late modern individual to contemporary (Western) conditions. A series of arguments support the idea of a reduced sense of security and purport to explain the undermining of the contemporary self in terms of a break with well established social and cultural processes which late modernity makes redundant.