Is the idea that people have selves nothing more than a mere assumption? This anthology traces the origins of the idea that people have unique destinies to unde

What it socialization? What is interaction? What do we mean by identity? How can we explain the notion of self? What do we mean by intra-action? The Sociology o

Society in the Self: A Theory of Identity in Democracy shows how society is working in the deeper regions of self and identity. This book is an exploration of t

This 1985 book studies the relation between the individual and collective processes, which is central to the social sciences.

This major study develops a new account of modernity and its relation to the self. Building upon the ideas set out in The Consequences of Modernity, Giddens arg