Quotes from Anthony Giddens

Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.

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

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

When the image of Nelson Mandela may be more familiar to us than the face of our next-door neighbour, something has changed in the nature of our everyday experience.

A person's identity is not to be found in behavior...but in the capacity to keep a particular narrative going

All so-called 'quantitative' data, when scrutinized, turn out to be composites of 'qualitative' – i.e., contextually located and indexical – interpretations produced by situated researchers, coders, government officials and others. The

sociological research is part of a continuous 'two-way' process between sociologists and the subjects they study.

Theories in the natural sciences which have been replaced by others which do the same job better are of no interest to the current practice of science. This cannot be the case where those theories have helped to constitute what they interpret or explicate. The

The formulation of critical theory is not an option; theories and findings in the social sciences are likely to have practical (and political) consequences regardless of whether or not the sociological observer or policy-maker decides that they can be 'applied' to a given practical issue.

Old Conservatism, at least in its more principled forms, is, as has been aptly said, the 'other God that failed' alongside Communism and radical socialism.4

Religion provides a feeling that life is ultimately meaningful. It does so by explaining coherently and compellingly what transcends or overshadows everyday life, in ways that other aspects of culture (such as an educational system or a belief in democracy) cannot (Geertz, 1973; Wuthnow, 1988).

Dívky neusilují o sexuální svobodu - tu mají. Jejich problémem je, jak z ní udÄ›lat nÄ›co smysluplného tváÃ…â"¢í v tváÃ…â"¢ mužským postoj?m, zatížených minulostí...

las personas no poseen una libertad total para pensar, decir o hacer lo que quieran, ya que hay límites en la capacidad de agencia humana.

Capitalism has disappeared as an object of study, just when it has removed any alternative to itself.

Una adicción es una incapacidad de colonizar el futuro y, en cuanto tal, realiza una transgresión de las primeras preocupaciones con las que deben lidiar reflexivamente los individuos.

La comunicación de los sentimientos, además, no es en sí ni por sí misma suficiente para la intimidad. En la medida en que tal comunicación está ligada con el narcisismo, se trata de una oferta de poder más que de una contribución al desarrollo del amor confluente.

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.