Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity. — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events. — Anthony Giddens Copy Share
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… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share
High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share
High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what we risk:… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share
To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share
“Old Conservatism, at least in its more principled forms, is, as has been aptly said, the ‘other God that failed’ alongside Communism and radical… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share
Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see this phenomenon… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share
Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share
The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes. — Anthony Giddens Copy Share
The flow of action continually produces consequences which are unintended by actors, and these unintended consequences also may form unacknowledged conditions of actions in… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share
The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk. — Anthony Giddens Copy Share
To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share
The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices. — Anthony Giddens Copy Share
Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it. — Anthony Giddens Copy Share
Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share
