THE GUIDELINES OF THE UNDP REPORTS AND THE THIRD WAY IN ANTHONY GIDDENS

Abstract

Giddens participated in debates on globalization, reflexivity, and the need to expand actions and procedures that should be renewed due to the new contexts of interactions arising from the changes experienced after the 1970s. He built a theoretical and methodological framework that helps to interpret the prospects formulated by the HDRs / UNDP / UN. In a two-way hermeneutics exercise, the writers of the respective reports resort to various reflections present in the current sociological debate. In this article, we seek to make two simultaneous movements: one seeks to demonstrate that the set of knowledge mobilized by Giddens, about the role of the actor (and his social, recursive and reflective capacity) and human agency in transmuting the rules, norms, social institutions and organizations, is somehow reflected in the HDRs; the other seeks to demonstrate that the prescriptions of actions to achieve human development have some proximity to the political platform, embraced by Giddens, called the Third Way.