Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some of which are institutionally organised.
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
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…
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…
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 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.
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.
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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