Why Is Anthony Giddens Influential?
According to Wikipedia , Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens is an English sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern sociologists and is the author of at least 34 books, published in at least 29 languages, issuing on average more than one book every year. In 2007, Giddens was listed as the fifth most-referenced author of books in the humanities. He has academic appointments in approximately twenty different universities throughout the world and has received numerous honorary degrees.
Anthony Giddens's Published Works
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1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 0 2500 5000 7500 10000 12500 15000 17500 20000 22500 25000 27500 Published Papers The Constitution of Society. Outline of the Theory of Structuration (16857) The consequences of modernity (14062) Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age (12945) The Constitution of Society (8659) Central Problems in Social Theory: Action, Structure and Contradiction in Social Analysis (5035) Central Problems In Social Theory (3566) Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order (3088) Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age. (2805) Runaway World: How Globalization is Reshaping Our Lives (2691) The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love, and Eroticism in Modern Societies (2320) The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy (2289) NEW RULES OF SOCIOLOGICAL METHOD (1684) The Nation-State and Violence (1675) A contemporary critique of historical materialism (1606) Beyond Left and Right: The Future of Radical Politics (1517) New Rules of Sociological Method: A Positive Critique of Interpretative Sociologies. (1372) Attachment and Loss, Volume I: Attachment (1212) The Third Way and Its Critics (1168) The Transformation of Intimacy (1000) Risk and Responsibility (956) Modernity and Self-Identity, Self and Society in the Late Modern Age (913) Social theory and modern sociology (878) The Class Structure of the Advanced Societies (721) Modernity and self-identity (714) The Politics of Climate Change (689) Profiles And Critiques In Social Theory (653) Conversations with Anthony Giddens: Making Sense of Modernity (627) The Nation-state and Violence: Volume Two of a Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism (476) Capitalism and Modern Social Theory (444) On the Edge: Living With Global Capitalism (427) Studies in social and political theory (334) The global third way debate (313) New rules of sociological method : a positive critique of interpretative sociologies (295) Social Theory Today (287) Sociology, a brief but critical introduction (280) The Third Way (278) Capitalism and modern social theory : an analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber (240) The Giddens Reader (209) Time, Space and Regionalisation (207) Social Theory and Modern Sociology. (204) The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies. (195) Positivism and sociology (192) A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism, Vol. 1: Power, Property and the State. (188) The Social Meanings of Suicide (166) Europe in the Global Age (154) Politics, Sociology, and Social Theory: Encounters with Classical and Contemporary Social Thought (142) The Nation State and Violence. Volume Two of a Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism (126) Politics and Sociology in the Thought of Max Weber (122) Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings: Contents (122) Reference Groups: Exploration into Conformity and Deviation of Adolescents (122) Classical Social Theory and the Origins of Modern Sociology (111) Social theory of modern societies: A reply to my critics (108) Classes, power, and conflict : classical and contemporary debates (108) Where Now for New Labour (107) 5. Action, Subjectivity, and the Constitution of Meaning (103) Comments on the Theory of Structuration (100) Essentials of sociology (93) Elites in the British Class Structure (92) Affluence, Poverty and the Idea of a Post‐Scarcity Society (87) `Power' in the Recent Writings of Talcott Parsons (86) Classes, Power and Conflict (84) A human security doctrine for Europe: the Barcelona Report of the Study Group on Europe's Security Capabilities (83) The new egalitarianism (83) Durkheim on Politics and the State (82) In Defence of Sociology: Essays, Interpretations and Rejoinders (75) Power, the Dialectic of Control and Class Structuration (69) Global Europe, social Europe (67) Turbulent and Mighty Continent: What Future for Europe? (66) “ What Is Globalization ? The Definitional Issue – Again ” (64) Elites and power in British society (62) Hermeneutics and Social Theory (62) Essential Concepts in Sociology (61) Suicide and the meaning of civilization (57) Durkheim's Political Sociology (55) THE SUICIDE PROBLEM IN FRENCH SOCIOLOGY. (54) Notes on the Concepts of Play and Leisure (54) The Beleaguered Self@@@The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life.@@@Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age. (53) The politics of the new centre (52) Elites and Power in British Society (50) Sociology: Introductory Readings (49) Positivism and Sociology (48) THE GLOBALIZING OF MODERNITY (46) The Progressive Manifesto: New Ideas for the Centre-Left (42) Time and space in social theory (37) Labour and Interaction (36) Class Structuration and Class Consciousness (36) The Modern Corporate Economy: Interlocking Directorships in Britain, 1906–1970 (35) A typology of suicide (35) Social Class and the Division of Labour: Essays in Honour of Ilya Neustadt (33) The ‘Individual’ in the Writings of Émile Durkheim (32) Human societies : an introductory reader in sociology (32) Four myths in the history of social thought (31) Modernism and post-modernism (30) On Rereading The Presentation of Self: Some Reflections (29) Class Division, Class Conflict and Citizenship Rights (29) Fate, Risk and Security (29) Durkheim as a Review Critic (28) The sociology of suicide : a selection of readings (27) Over to you, Mr. Brown : how Labour can win again (26) Over to You, Mr. Brown (25) The Rise and Fall of New Labour (24) The Growth of the New Middle Class (24) Marx's correct views on everything (24) Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings: The field of sociology (23) Marx, Weber, and the Development of Capitalism (22) Debating the Social Model: Thoughts and Suggestions (21) Power, property and the state (19) Revised Portrait of Human Agency : A Critical Engagement with Hans Joas ’ s Creative Appropriation of the Pragmatic Approach (19) Four Theses on Ideology (18) Modernity, history, democracy (18) Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings: Preface (18) Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings: Religion and ritual (18) 136. Suicide, Attempted Suicide, and the Suicidal Threat (17) Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings: Introduction: Durkheim's writings in sociology and social philosophy (17) Action, Structure, Power (15) The Aufhebung of Social Theory@@@Central Problems in Social Theory: Action, Structure and Contradiction in Social Analysis. (15) The Nation-State and Violence (15) Schutz and Parsons: Problems of Meaning and Subjectivity (14) The constitution of society : teori strukturasi untuk analisis sosial / oleh Anthony Giddens (13) Time-Space Distanciation and the Generation of Power (12) Mother's boy (12) Habermas's Social and Political Theory (12) Social Theory and the Lifeworld@@@The Structures of the Lifeworld@@@The Constitution of Society (11) Schutz and Parsons: Problems of Meaning and Subjectivity@@@The Theory of Social Action: The Correspondence of Alfred Schutz and Talcott Parsons. (10) The Time-Space Constitution of Social Systems (10) The Prospects for Social Theory Today (10) Social Class and the Division of Labour: Essays in Honour of Ilya Neustadt (9) Group Dynamics Research and Theory (Third Edition) (9) From Marx to Nietzsche? Neo-Conservatism, Foucault, and Problems in Contemporary Political Theory (8) Social Theory and Problems of Macroeconomics (8) Beneath the Hijab: A Woman (8) Comments on Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers@@@The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500-2000 (7) A discussion of Frank Parkin, Marxism and Class Theory: A Bourgeois Critique (London: Tavistock Publications, 1979). (7) New Labour: Tony Blair and After (7) Capitalism and modern social theory: Social differentiation and the division of labour (7) Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings: The social bases of education (7) Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings: Anomie and the moral structure of industry (7) A Third Way for the European Union (6) Giddens' Golden Gloves@@@The Nation-State and Violence: Vol. 2 of a Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism. (5) Talcott Parsons and American Sociology (5) The Crisis of Industrial Civilisation, the Early Essays of Auguste Comte (5) Aspects of the Social Structure of a University Hall of Residence (5) Europe's Existential Crisis (5) Time, Space, Social Change (5) Habermas's Social and Political Theory (5) Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings: The division of labour and social differentiation (4) Society as Time-Traveller@@@A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism, Vol. 1: Power, Property, and the State. (4) Class, Crisis and the State.Erik Olin Wright (4) Book Review:The Cement of Society: A Study of Social Order. Jon Elster (4) Introduction to Sociology, 6th Edition (4) Capitalism and modern social theory: Preface (4) Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings: The science of morality (4) Marx and Weber: A Reply to Mr. Walton (4) Book Review:The Society of Individuals. Norbert Elias, Michael Schroter, Edmund Jephcott (4) Response to Atkins and Leggett (4) Sociology : A brief but critical introduction / by Anthony Giddens (4) Durkheim, Socialism and Marxism (4) Sociology's Role in Addressing Society's Problems Is Undervalued and Misunderstood in Academe (3) A Reply to My Critics (3) Structuralism and the Theory of the Subject (3) Classes, capitalism, and the state (3) Literature and Society: Raymond Williams (3) 2. Recent Works on the position and prospects of contemporary sociology (3) Contradiction, Power, Historical Materialism (3) Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings: Forms of social solidarity (3) Capitalism and modern social theory: Capitalism, socialism and social theory (3) Capitalism and modern social theory: Marx's early writings (3) Profiting from a Comprehensive School: A Critical Comment (2) Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings: Methods of explanation and analysis (2) Can Climate Change Modernize Russia (2) Capitalism and the World System (2) What is social stratification (2) The Class Structure of the Advanced Societies.@@@The Political Economy of Social Class.@@@The Aristocracy of Labor: The Position of Skilled Craftsmen in the American Class Structure. (2) Capitalism and modern social theory: Marx's influence (2) Commentary on the Reviews (2) A Magna Carta For The Digital Age (2) Ideology and Consciousness (2) Time, Labour and the City (2) Positivism and Sociology.Empiricism and Sociology (2) Society as Time-Traveller: Capitalism and World History (2) The construction of belonging in post-modern times . Narrative accounts of joining a volunteer organisation as constructions of social selves (2) The relations of production and class structure (2) Between Capitalism and Socialism: Contradiction and Exploitation (2) Social Theory of Modern Societies: Anthony Giddens and His Critics@@@The Consequences of Modernity (2) Classes, Capitalism and the State (2) Capitalism and modern social theory: Durkheim's conception of sociological method (2) Human Territoriality: its History and Theory, Robert David Sack. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1986), ix, +256. £25.00 and $34.50 hardback; £8.95 and $12.95 softback (2) Author's Response to Reviewers (2) Capitalism and modern social theory: Max Weber: Protestantism and capitalism (2) Statecraft and security: Affluence, poverty and the idea of a post-scarcity society (2) Tony Blair, 1997–2007 (2) Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings: Moral obligation, duty and freedom (2) Hermeneutics and Social Theory@@@Contemporary Hermeneutics: Hermeneutics as Method, Philosophy and Critique. (1) Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age (1) The Structure of Sociological Inference@@@New Rules of Sociological Method (1) Readings and study guide for Introduction to sociology by Anthony Giddens (1) The City: Urbanism and Everyday Life (1) The State: Class Conflict and Political Order (1) Capitalism and modern social theory: Weber's methodological essays (1) Social Theory of Modern Societies: Anthony Giddens and His Critics.@@@The Consequences of Modernity. (1) Images of Society. Essays on the Sociological Theories of Tocqueville, Marx and Durkheim (1) Endnote@@@Classes, Power, and Conflict: Classical and Contemporary Debates (1) Beyond the Sociology of Conflict (1) Rejoinder to Mackenzie and Spinardi (1) Recession, Climate Change and the Return of Planning (1) Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order@@@Critique of Modernity (1) The Modern State (1) French Riots Show Need to Reform European Social Model (1) Climate Change Meets Geopolitical Reality in Copenhagen (1) The Moral Fog of Progress ‐ Fall 2003 (1) Entrevista com Anthony Giddens. (1) The Improbable Guru: Re-Reading Marcuse (1) Post-capitalist Economies and the Generative Time Regime (1) The End of the "Waiting for Newton" Syndrome@@@Studies in Social and Political Theory. (1) Still a Third Way for Europe (1) To Begin Anew@@@The Consequences of Modernity.@@@Social Theory of Modern Societies: Anthony Giddens and His Critics. (1) The Nation-State, Nationalism and Capitalist Development (1) Globalization and the European Social Model (1) Institutions, Reproduction, Socialisation (1) Essential Concepts in Sociology (excerpts) (1) Property and Class Society (1) Debating the Third Way (1) Sociology: Issues and Problems (1) THEORIES OF AGENCY IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES: (0) NWS volume 8 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (0) Notes on Contributors (0) Anthony Giddens on Structuration (0) Get Over It ‐ Winter 2006 (0) Capitalism, socialism and social theory (0) Rationalisation, the ‘world religions’, and western capitalism (0) Sociology [Giddens, 1993] (0) Capitalism and modern social theory: List of abbreviations used (0) Capitalism and modern social theory: Contents (0) Competing Interpretations: Industrial Society or Capitalism? (0) Towards Post-Empiricist Sociological Theorising@@@Sociological Theory Since 1945@@@Social Theory Today (0) Why sociology matters (0) Capitalism and modern social theory: Bibliography of works cited in text (0) The Political Context of Weber’s Sociology (0) Back Matter (0) An Interview with Anthony Giddens (0) NWS volume 7 issue 2 Cover and Back matter (0) Sociology [Giddens, 1997] (0) The Transformation of Intimacy. Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies (0) What role does an individual play in history ? (0) Conclusion: Sociology as Critical Theory (0) Liberalism and Sociology@@@From Philosophy to Sociology. The Evolution of French Liberalism, 1870-1914.@@@Liberalism and the Origins of European Social Theory. (0) Approaches to Social Theory.@@@Social Theory Today. (0) Nationstate in the Global Age (0) Overview on Anthony Giddens (0) Introduction to sociology / Anthony Giddens ... [et al.] (0) Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings@@@Politics and Sociology in the Thought of Max Weber (0) Turkish Crisis: The Biggest Test Since 9/11 - Summer 2007 (0) 2 Spaces of Informalization : playscapes , power and the governance of conduct (0) Essentials of sociology : Anthony Giddens, Mitchell Dunieier, Richard P. Appelbaum (0) The Sociological Framework of Weber’s Political Thought (0) Review Notices : Politics and Sociology in the Thought of Max Weber. By Anthony Giddens. London: Mac millan. 1972. 64 pp. £0.60 (0) Myth and Education in the Development of Human Existence : Existential , Cultural and Social Space (0) Main Themes in Weber’s Political Writings (0) Religion and moral discipline (0) ICS volume 37 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (0) Editorial (0) Capitalism and modern social theory: Historical materialism (0) Book Review: The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory (0) Book Reviews (0) Book Review:The Political Philosophy of the Frankfurt School George Friedman (0) THE MODERNLAWREVIEW Volume 62 No 1 January 1999 Risk and Responsibility (0) Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism.Michael Burawoy (0) Towards Combining the Sociological Theories of (0) When Janet Jackson Meets Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani - Spring 2004 (0) Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings: Secularisation and rationality (0) Capitalism and modern social theory: The theory of capitalist development (0) Elites and Power in British Society.@@@Elites in Western Democracy: British Political Sociology Yearbook. Vol. 1. (0) Climate Change Policy in the European Union: Foreword (0) Capitalism and modern social theory: Fundamental concepts of sociology (0) Five minutes with Anthony Giddens: “The European social model can and must survive the crisis” (0) Sarkozy Has Half of What France Needs (0) Individualism, socialism and the ‘occupational groups’ (0) Analysis of socialist doctrines (0) Volume Information (0) Volume Information (0) Capitalism and modern social theory: Postscript: Marx and modern sociology (0) Is the American Dream Over?@@@America at Century's End. (0) Review symposium (0) Critical Hermeneutics: Foreword by Anthony Giddens (0) ' Structuration Theory to Committee Governance-Translating theoretical propositions into methodological principles Working Paper by Dr Mark J Lock (0) Capitalism and modern social theory: Dedication (0) Myth and Metropolis FOR AUDREY AND PETER MYTH AND METROPOLIS (0) Social exclusion, the poor and the world of work: New times, old times (0) Domination, Power and Exploitation: an Analysis (0) Prositivism and sociology (0) Capitalism: Integration, Surveillance and Class Power (0) Wither Marxism?@@@After Marxism.@@@Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International.@@@Beyond Left and Right: The Future of Radical Politics.@@@Whither Marxism? Global Crises in International Perspective. (0) Suicide@@@Suicide and Attempted Suicide@@@Status, Integration and Suicide@@@Suicide and Homicide (0) NWS volume 7 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (0) Capitalism and modern social theory: Religion, ideology and society (0) NWS volume 7 issue 3 Cover and Back matter (0) The Search for Theory: Synthesis or Dissonance? (0) A Europe unifying in the midst of 21st century challenges* (0) Youngsters ́ Opinions on Religion and God in the World of Relativism (0) Comprar Global Europe, Social Europe | Anthony Giddens | 9780745639345 | Wiley (0) Introduction to Sociology@@@Readings for Sociology (0) FOURTHESES ON IDEOLOGY* (0) Readings for Sociology (0) Volume Information (0) Capitalism and modern social theory: Introduction (0) Breaking New Ground in the Analysis of Capitalism@@@A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism, Vol. 1: Power, Property, and the State. (0) The Family and Gender (0) Culture in Globalization Processes (0) Book reviews (0) The High Priest of Positivism: Auguste Comte (0) Class Division and Social Transformation (0) Managing the Heart (0) Narcissism, kropp och modernitet (0) Volume Information (0) Capitalism and modern social theory: Durkheim's early works (0) The shrinking of socialism (0) Book Review: Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work (0) The Impact of Globalization on the Bureaucratic Structures : Strategies and Prospects (0) Endnote@@@Sociology: A Brief but Critical Introduction (0) SUGGESTED READING FOR: THE EUROPEAN UNION (0) NWS volume 7 issue 4 Cover and Back matter (0) Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings: Sociology of knowledge (0) More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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