The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes. - Anthony Giddens

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The comfort of our peer-connections is reflected in our most honest and direct hand-holding. When we trip, they are the first ones to pull us back up.

Anthony Giddens

The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

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'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.

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Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.

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Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity.

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To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system geared to the domination of nature and the reflexive making of history. Fate and destiny have no formal part to play in such a system, which operates (as a matter of principle) via what I shall call open human control of the natural and social worlds.

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A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security - that connects options in a more or less ordered pattern. (. . . ) [T]he selection or creation of lifestyles is influenced by group pressures and the visibility of role models, as well as by socioeconomic circumstances.

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