吉登斯晚期现代性理论述评

吉登斯晚期现代性理论中关于时空分离、脱域、信任、焦虑与自我认同、现代性制度、全球化等问题的探讨,展现出其作为后现代社会学理论代表人物,试图超脱主客二元对立,在主体与客体、主观与客观的统一中把握经验性和整体性社会的思维方式和理论风格.但在探讨这些问题的过程中,吉登斯对科技这一给社会及社会学研究带来日益深刻影响的重要因素,缺乏更深入、更系统的思考.

A Critical Review of Giddens''''Theory of Late Modernity

In Anthony Giddens' theory of late modernity,he explores such issues as disintegration of time and space,disembedding,trust,anxiety,self-identification,institutionalization of modernity and globalization,which reflects his theoretical orientation in which he,as one of the representatives of post-modernist theories of sociology,tries to go beyond the binary thinking of the subjective and the objective to understand the empirical and integrative nature of society by unifying the subject and the object,and the subjective and the objective.However,this paper points out that Giddens fails to give an in-depth and systematic treatment to science and technology,which have an increasingly far-reaching impact on social and sociological studies.