Description
Product ID: | 9780745609324 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Modernity and Self-Identity |
Subtitle: | Self and Society in the Late Modern Age |
Authors: | Author: Anthony Giddens |
Page Count: | 264 |
Subjects: | Sociology and anthropology, Sociology & anthropology, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, The self, ego, identity, personality |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 developed institutional reflexivity. |
Imprint Name: | Polity Press |
Publisher Name: | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 1991-07-11 |