In the most basic terms, Anthony Giddens describes modernity as.
Recently, Giddens(2000) developed a four-fold classification that exists in western societies.
Giddens calls it a'shell institution',
but it is much more than that.
Anthony Giddens doesn't dispute that important changes have occurred,
but he says that we haven't really gone beyond modernity.
Anthony Giddens does not dispute that important changes
have occurred since“high” modernity, but he argues that we have not truly abandoned modernity.
It is a society more technically, a complex of institutions which, unlike any preceding culture, lives
in the future, rather than the past(Giddens 1998, 94).
According to Giddens(2000),“a class is a large-scale grouping
of people who share common economic resources, which strongly influence the type of lifestyle they are able to lead”.
It is a society- more technically, a complex of institutions- which, unlike any preceding culture, lives in the future,
rather than the past(Giddens 1998, 94 as cited in Modernity).
A general outcome of incredulity toward overly-structural or agential thought has been the development
of multidimensional theories, most notably the Action Theory of Talcott Parsons and Anthony Giddens's Theory of Structuration.