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unusual facts about Anthony Giddens


Wanda Orlikowski

for her work in studying the implementation and use of technologies within organisations by drawing on Giddens' Theory of Structuration.


History of the London School of Economics

Anthony Giddens, the former Director of the LSE, stands as the creator of the "Third Way" followed by both Tony Blair (who unveiled the Fabian Window at LSE in 2005) and Bill Clinton.

Jonas Baes

At the beginning of the new century, Baes experiments with notions of structure-agency integration after Anthony Giddens and simulacrum after Jean Baudrillard.

Late modernity

Social theorists and sociologists such as Scott Lash, Ulrich Beck, Zygmunt Bauman and Anthony Giddens maintain (against postmodernists) that modernization continues into the contemporary era, which is thus better conceived as a radical state of late modernity.

Lehman Brothers Centre for Women in Business

The groundbreaking seminar attempted to expose business academics and practitioners to current research and knowledge in the social sciences and saw two talks by (Lord) Anthony Giddens and Richard Sennett.

Roger Liddle, Baron Liddle

Most recently Global Europe, Social Europe with Anthony Giddens and Patrick Diamond.

World Social Summit

The main protagonists of the WSS 2008 Edition are : the sociologists Anthony Giddens and Zygmunt Bauman, the economist Jacques Attali, the economist and Nobel laureate Gary Becker, the psychologist James Hillman, the journalist Bill Emmot, the architect Massimiliano Fuksas, the scientist Edoardo Boncinelli, the writer and journalist Roberto Saviano, the writer Suketu Mehta.


see also

Constitutive criminology

# Structuration Theory, introduced by Anthony Giddens in 1984, claims that not only is society socially constructed, but that it is formed by human agents through their everyday activities.