Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. In bridging two arenas of social thought, George Simmel can be thought of as both a modernist and a postmodernist.
2. anthony Giddens’s Juggernaut of Modernity is a grand theory with a unidirectional prediction of where society is headed.
3. Anthony Giddens’s Juggernaut of Modernity is fitting with his ideas on structuration because it accounts for both time and space.
4. Anthony Giddens’s Juggernaut of Modernity is fitting with his ideas on agency because it affords human actors great power of their destiny.
5. Anthony Giddens argues that modernity entails a breaking down of trust throughout society.


1. true
2. false
3. true
4. false
5. false

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