Anthony Giddens Quotes

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• Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'
• 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…
• The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.
• 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 only…
• Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits, organised in some…
• The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings.
• 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 sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.
• In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind or another are…
• 'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.
• 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…
• Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.
• The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.
• A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security -…
• 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…
• 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 as…
• The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.
• 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: for…
• Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some…
• [C]ultivated risk-taking represents an 'experiment with trust' (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual's self-identity. (...) In cultivated risk-taking,…

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