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Anthony Giddens - Understanding Social Change (seminar 9)
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Seminar notes on week 9 of the module Understanding Social Change. This is a Sociology degree module. This document contains notes on: Anthony Giddens, What is modernity for Giddens? What is the problem with modernity for Giddens? Ontological security, How do we get round this problem of ontologica...

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  • April 11, 2021
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  • 2020/2021
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  • Anthony giddens

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  • anthony giddens
  • social change
  • sociology
  • modernity
  • ontological security
  • society
  • anomic consciousness
  • understanding social change

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Module: Understanding Social Change


Week 9 – Giddens


Giddens is much more complex than the others.

In his own words – globalization
https://tinyurl.com/b2Inmt

He looks to the past and future to understand the social world around us.

Modernity? What does all this mean for Gidden’s notion of society?

What is modernity for Giddens?
 The institutions of modernity according to Giddens: capitalism,
industrialisation, surveillance, military power.
 Risk and trust
 Technical development
 Giddens argued that we live in late modernity NOT postmodernity – we have
come to the end of the modern process. We are living in the later version of it.
 Giddens states that modernity has become more established and intensified
overtime, referring to modern society and industrial civilisation. He describes
our contemporary experience as one of being in late modernity.
 Post feudalism
 Modernity still has tradition.


What is the problem with modernity for Giddens?
 Loss of control
 We need to find out who we are
 Dominance of risk. We cannot protect ourselves from risks.
 We must trust abstract systems. Some of them are expert systems and
some are symbolic.
 Unpredictability in society
 Ontological security – we are constantly searching for it. Nothing that you
think is real or true is actually the case. Life is the great unknown and can
never be known. You can never feel secure. You need to accept that it’s
not real; to go with the flow instead. It can only be relevant to that moment
in time.
 Deep psychological angst – we don’t know much about anything.

How do we get round this problem of ontological insecurity?

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