The Third Way enjoyed a dramatic success when it first appeared in the late 1990s. The book helped to provide inspiration for left-of-centre parties in a variety of different countries around the world, and many incorporated elements from it into their political programmes. Its influence in Britain [...]

Now available in a discounted bundle, buy the exciting new seventh edition of Anthony Giddens and Philip W. Sutton's Sociology alongside the specially tailored and revised selection of key sociological works in Sociology: Introductory Readings.[...]

A 'United States of Europe', Winston Churchill proposed in 1946, could 'as if by a miracle transform' that 'turbulent and mighty continent'. 'In this way only', he continued, 'will hundreds of millions of toilers be able to regain the simple joys and hopes which make life worth living'.[...]

The author argues that 'high' or 'late' modernity is a post-traditional order characterized by a developed institutional reflexivity. In the current period, the globalizing tendencies of modern institutions are accompanied by a transformation of day-to-day social life having profound implications fo[...]