ギデンズとサッチャリズム─社会理論と社会変動─

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  • Anthony Giddens and Thatcherism:Social Theory and Social Change
  • ギデンズ ト サッチャリズム : シャカイ リロン ト シャカイ ヘンドウ

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How do social theorists construct theories on the social change in which they are concurrently living, experiencing, and studying? This paper answers this question through examining Anthony Giddens' social theoretical work on the social transformation during Margaret Thatcher's term as the UK Prime Minister (1979-1990). Clearly Giddens produced his major theories on national authority, social movements, and power out of the social change affected by Thatcherism during the1980s; yet, his publications, except for passages in textbooks, never mentioned Thatcher or her ideology. Analyzing the social transformation in the United Kingdom and Giddens' theoretical points during Thatcher's time, my paper demonstrates how his sensitive responses to the social change in rethinking socialism and welfare state actually critiqued power focusing on the causes of social movements and violence, without directly mentioning Thatcher and/or Thatcherism. My findings suggest that Giddens' social theorization was clever enough to shift attention to structural problems and away from particular individuals and social events, and contributed to sociological knowledge construction of the social transformation.

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