The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also the site of illnesses and strains. (...) [I]t is an action-system, a mode of praxis, and its practical immersion in the interactions of day-to-day life is an essential part of the sustaining of a coherent sense of self-identity.
To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system geared to the dom… - Anthony Giddens
To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system geared to the dom…
- Anthony Giddens
Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of colonising t… - Anthony Giddens
Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of colonising t…
To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit of artificially… - Anthony Giddens
To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit of artificially…
Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering othe… - Anthony Giddens
Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering othe…
The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes. - Anthony Giddens
The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.
A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security - … - Anthony Giddens
A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security - …
The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices. - Anthony Giddens
The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.
The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events. - Anthony Giddens
The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.
Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it. - Anthony Giddens
Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.
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