
It is a politics of self-actualisation in a reflexively ordered environment, where that reflexivity links self and body to systems of global scope He also contends that sociology, for Giddens, is the critical. Sociologists, unlike natural scientistshave to interpret a social world which is already interpreted by the actors that inhabit it. Giddebs Leicester considered to be one of the seedbeds of British sociology he met Norbert Elias and began to work on his own theoretical position. The media do not merely reflect the social world but also actively shape it, being central to modern reflexivity.

New threats and problems abound, both in our everyday lives biddens in the larger institutions of our societies.
