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Anthony Giddens is a British sociologist and political theorist, born on January 18, 1938. He is one of the most influential sociologists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, known for his work on structuration theory and the study of modernity.

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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.”

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

“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

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

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

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

Risk Climate Modernity

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

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

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Born: January 18, 1938
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