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Tag: late modernity

  • Anthony Giddens – High Modernity and Religious Revival

    Anthony Giddens argues that the shift to late modern society results in religion becoming more popular. Giddens is one of four ‘sociologists of postmodernity’, all of whom argue that postmodernisation results in the nature of religion changing, but not necessarily declining in importance. NB – see this post (forthcoming) on how to avoid getting confused…

  • Critical Responses to Postmodernism

    Anthony Giddens attacks post-modernity firstly because he believes that we have not yet left modernity – and thus the sociology of modernity still provides the correct tools for analysing contemporary society, and secondly because he believes that there is still a social structure with both constrains and enables human action. Structuration Theory Giddens theory is…