Individualization institutionalized individualism and its social and political consequences
The authors perceive that we humans are in the midst of a fundamental change in the nature of society and politics. This change hinges on the two processes of globalisation and individualisation.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
SAGE
c2002.
London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : 2002. |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009623412106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: 1 Losing the traditional: Individualization
- and 'precarious freedoms' 1
- 2 A life of one's own in a runaway world: Individualization,
- globalization and politics 22
- 3 Beyond status and class? 30
- 4 The ambivalent social structure: Poverty and wealth
- in a 'self-driven culture' 42
- 5 From 'living for others' to 'a life of one's own':
- Individualization and women 54
- 6 On the way to a post-familial family: From a community
- of need to elective affinities 85
- 7 Division of labour, self-image and life projects:
- New conflicts in the family 101
- 8 Declining birthrates and the wish to have children 119
- 9 Apparatuses do not care for people 129
- 10 Health and responsibility in the age of genetic technology 139
- 11 Death of one's own, life of one's own: Hopes from transience 151
- 12 Freedom's children 156
- 13 Freedom's fathers 172
- 14 Zombie categories: Interview with Ulrich Beck 202.
