Pregledni rad

https://doi.org/10.5613/rzs.48.1.3

The Concept of Modernity in the Work of Anthony Giddens

Elmir Karadži orcid.org/0000-0002-1972-9737 ; Prizren, Kosovo

Sažetak

In this paper the author deals with social discourses of modernity as a principal concept of sociological theory. His aim was to indicate the fundamental postulates of modern society by referring to the concept of modernity as laid out by Anthony Giddens in his work when analysing a multitude of changes in society, economics, politics, culture, religion, science and technology in the past few centuries. In the first part of the paper, the author presented the elementary features of pre-modern and modern society contrasted by tradition and modernity and the rise of an essentially different way of perceiving and organising social life. Then he proceeds to the main characteristics of contemporary multidimensional social orders concerning the speed and width of transformation. This is followed by the author’s reference to the main characteristics of modern, multidimensional social orders in terms of the dynamics and extent of change. Giddens’ fundamental theoretical concepts of modernity are laid out next: the phenomenology of modernity, insecurity and the risks of the management of the “Moloch” of modernity and the term “radicalised modernity”. The latter concept was used by Giddens to challenge the postmodernist interpretation of society in terms of uselessness of the “great narratives” and the transformation from modern to postmodern society. Concluding remarks summarised analytically and critically Giddens’ innovative projections of “utopian realism” and his vision of postmodernity.

Ključne riječi

Giddens; modernity; tradition; reflexivity; globalisation; risk; radicalised modernity; postmodernity

Hrčak ID:

202186

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/202186

Datum izdavanja:

30.4.2018.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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