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

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

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

- 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 - …

- Anthony Giddens

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

- Anthony Giddens

Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.

- Anthony Giddens

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

- Anthony Giddens