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The flow of action continually produces consequences which are unintended by actors, and these unintended consequences also may form unacknowledged conditions of actions in a feedback fashion. Human history is created by intentional activities but is not an intended project; it persistently eludes efforts to bring it under conscious direction.

Anthony Giddens's Popular Quotes

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…

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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…

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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…

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A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security - …

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The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

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Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering othe…

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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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The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.

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The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.

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