Anthony Giddens

Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens () adalah sosiolog asal Britania Raya. Ia adalah seorang sosiolog Inggris yang terkenal karena teori strukturasi dan pandangan menyeluruh tentang masyarakat modern.

Ia dianggap sebagai salah satu kontributor sosiologi modern. Tiga tahap terpenting dapat diidentifikasi di dalam kehidupan akademisnya. Hal yang pertama yaitu melibatkan penjabaran sebuah visi baru tentang apa sosiologi itu, menyajikan pemahaman teoritis dan metodologis dari bidang itu, berdasarkan reinterpretasi kritis terhadap klasik. Pada tahap kedua Giddens mengembangkan teori strukturasi, analisis agen dan struktur, di mana keutamaan diberikan kepada keduanya. Karya-Nya periode itu, seperti Pusat Permasalahan dalam Teori Sosial (1979) dan Konstitusi Masyarakat (1.984), membawa dia terkenal di dunia internasional pada arena sosiologis.

Hasil karya 

 Giddens, Anthony (1971) Capitalism and Modern Social Theory. An Analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 Giddens, Anthony (1973) The Class Structure of the Advanced Societies. London: Hutchinson.
 Giddens, Anthony (1976) Functionalism: apres la lutte, Social Research, 43, 325-66
 Giddens, Anthony (1976) New Rules of Sociological Method: a Positive Critique of interpretative Sociologies. London: Hutchinson.
 Giddens, Anthony (1977) Studies in Social and Political Theory. London: Hutchinson.
 Giddens, Anthony (1979) Central problems in Social Theory: Action, Structure and Contradiction in Social Analysis. London: Macmillan.
 Giddens, Anthony (1981) A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism. Vol. 1. Power, Property and the State. London: Macmillan.
 Giddens, Anthony (1982) Sociology: a Brief but Critical Introduction. London: Macmillan.
 Giddens, Anthony (1982) Profiles and Critiques in Social Theory. London: Macmillan.
 Giddens, Anthony & Mackenzie, Gavin (Eds.) (1982) Social Class and the Division of Labour. Essays in Honour of Ilya Neustadt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 Giddens, Anthony (1984) The Constitution of Society. Outline of the Theory of Structuration. Cambridge: Polity (publisher).
 Giddens, Anthony (1985) A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism. Vol. 2. The Nation State and Violence. Cambridge: Polity (publisher).
 Giddens, Anthony (1986) Durkheim. London: Fontana Modern Masters.
 Giddens, Anthony (1990) The Consequences of Modernity. Cambridge: Polity (publisher).
 Giddens, Anthony (1991) Modernity and Self-Identity. Self and Society in the Late Modern Age. Cambridge: Polity (publisher).
 Giddens, Anthony (1992) The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies. Cambridge: Polity (publisher).
 Beck, Ulrich & Giddens, Anthony & Lash, Scott (1994) Reflexive Modernization. Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order. Cambridge: Polity (publisher).
 Giddens, Anthony (1994) Beyond Left and Right — the Future of Radical Politics. Cambridge: Polity (publisher).
 Giddens, Anthony (1995) Politics, Sociology and Social Theory: Encounters with Classical and Contemporary Social Thought. Cambridge: Polity (publisher).
 Giddens, Anthony (1996) In Defence of Sociology. Cambridge: Polity (publisher).
 Giddens, Anthony (1996) Durkheim on Politics and the State. Cambridge: Polity (publisher).
 Giddens, Anthony (1998) The Third Way. The Renewal of Social Democracy. Cambridge: Polity (publisher).
 Giddens, Anthony (1999) Runaway World: How Globalization is Reshaping Our Lives. London: Profile.
 Hutton, Will & Giddens, Anthony (Eds.) (2000) On The Edge. Living with Global Capitalism. London: Vintage.
 Giddens, Anthony (2000) The Third Way and Its Critics. Cambridge: Polity (publisher).
 Giddens, Anthony (2000) Runaway World. London: Routledge.
 Giddens, Anthony (Ed.) (2001) The Global Third Way Debate. Cambridge: Polity (publisher).
 Giddens, Anthony (2002) Where Now for New Labour? Cambridge: Polity (publisher).
 Giddens, Anthony (Ed.) (2003) The Progressive Manifesto. New Ideas for the Centre-Left. Cambridge: Polity (publisher).
 Giddens, Anthony (Ed.) (2005) The New Egalitarianism Cambridge: Polity (publisher).
 Giddens, Anthony (2006) Sociology (Fifth Edition). Cambridge: Polity (publisher).
 Giddens, Anthony (2007) Europe In The Global Age. Cambridge: Polity (publisher).
 Giddens, Anthony (2007) Over to You, Mr Brown - How Labour Can Win Again. Cambridge: Polity (publisher).
 Giddens, Anthony (2009) The Politics of Climate Change. Cambridge: Polity (publisher).
 Giddens, Anthony (2009) Sociology (Sixth Edition)''. Cambridge: Polity (publisher).

Referensi

Pranala luar 

 Interview with Al Jazeera English's Riz Khan
 Short bio at edge.org 
 BBC Interview with Giddens. 1999 BBC Reith Lectures interview with Giddens on the topic of "The Runaway World" and reflections on globalisation.
 Interview with Giddens . Anthony Giddens talks about his own inspiration as well as the nature and value of studying sociology today.
 THE SECOND GLOBALIZATION DEBATE A Talk With Anthony Giddens (a video is also available)
 Anthony Giddens' Structuration Resource Page
 Selection of Giddens quotes
 Anthony Giddens - Current LSE page 
 Anthony Giddens - Archived LSE page 
 Excerpts of Giddens, Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age, pp. 187-201 
 Review of the Third Way and Its Critics
 Review of Anthony Giddens: The Last Modernist, a book by Stjepan Mestrovic 
 A pint of Giddens
 A Comparison of Conceptions of "Post-Modernity" (PM) and "Radicalised Modernity" (RM)
 The Anthony Giddens trading card
 The Anthony Giddens 'Sociology' (5th edition) site - featuring regular updates from Giddens 
 The official website of Policy Network includes articles and essays by Giddens
 Audio: Anthony Giddens in conversation on the BBC World Service discussion show The Forum

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