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Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

Book by Anthony Giddens · 12 quotes · Risk, Body, Consequence

This book delves into the complexities of self-identity as it intersects with societal changes in the late modern era, examining how individuals navigate personal identity in a rapidly evolving social landscape.

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This book delves into the complexities of self-identity as it intersects with societal changes in the late modern era, examining how individuals navigate personal identity in a rapidly evolving social landscape.

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“Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.”

Existence Risk Apocalypse Parameters

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“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 domination of nature and the reflexive making of history. Fate and destiny have no formal part to play in such a system, which operates (as a matter of principle) via what I shall call open human control of the natural and social worlds.”

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“The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings.”

Body Risk Possibility Familiar Injury Surroundings

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“The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.”

Wells Risk Subjects Health Psychological Sustaining Psychological Health

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“'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.”

Life Mean Risk Possibility Diversity Confronting Taking Charge

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

Choices Culture Risk Importance Difficulty Lifestyle Secular Lifestyle Choices

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“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 mediated by expert systems.”

Form Risk Particular Late Consequence Claims Climate Experts Characteristics Modernity

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

Risk Climate Modernity

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“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 if things 'go wrong', it is already too late.”

Ifs Real Quality Risk Late Consequence Too Late Hazards Distinctive

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“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.”

Practice Risk Happenings Concern Setting Settings Related Organised

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“Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available in traditional settings from the moral frameworks within which everyday life was undertaken. Moreover, the wholesale penetration of abstract systems into daily life creates risks which the individual is not well placed to confront; high-consequence risks fall into this category. Greater interdependence, up to and including globally independent systems, means greater vulnerability when untoward events occur that affect those systems as a whole.”

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“The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.”

Risk Consequence Areas Assessment Thesis

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