2. How does Giddens characterise modern societies of the 21st century?

Late-modern Post-modern Post-human Post-everything

3. Whatever Giddens calls this period of modernity, he suggests that the period is characterised by individuals who:

are singularly unreflexive are doubly reflexive are doubly conscious

4. What does Giddens mean by 'ontological insecurity'?

A propensity for modern individuals to doubt the existence of god

A propensity for modern individuals to feel fundamental and existential anxieties about their social reality

A propensity for modern individuals to feel anxiety about the prospects of war.

5. Giddens is famous for his theory of 'structuration'. Which of the statements below best exemplifies the essential aim of this theory? 

An attempt to re-invigorate Durkheim's notion of society sui-generis

An attempt to transcend the 'individual versus society' debate in sociology

An attempt to demonstrate that the individual is 'free' of the influence of social institutions in modern societies  

6. In the structuration theory, Giddens argues that 'social structures are both the medium and the outcome of individuals' choices and actions.' What does he mean by this?

Individuals are enabled to use social structures as well as being constrained by those same structures

Individuals must choose between those structures that enable them to act, and those structures which constrain them from acting freely. 

Individuals are themselves embodiments of  'social structures' and vice versa. Individuals and social structures are, as it were, 'two sides of the same coin'. 

7. Giddens argues that 'plastic sex' predominates in modern times. What is plastic sex? 

Sex involving synthetic fibres

Sex that has no reproductive function or objective

The increase, in modernity, of distinct and perverse sexual practices

8. What for Giddens is the chief consequence of globalisation for individuals' identities?

Making tourists of us all

A process of consolidation of individuals' and communities' identities

A process of disembedding of individuals' and communities' identities

9. What does Giddens mean by the term 'time-space distanciation'?

The alarming increase in digital timepieces

The process whereby the technology of 'clock-time' has shaped and influenced modern individuals and behaviour 

The process whereby the technology of 'clock-time' has, in tandem with social processes, dissolved the connection between 'time' and 'place' 

10. Giddens argues there to be four 'institutional complexes' of modernity. Two of these are 'capitalism' and 'industrialism'. Which of the pairs given below represent the remaining two in Giddens' formulation?

Administrative Power and Cultural Power

Administrative Power and Social Power

Administrative Power and Military Power