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Individualization [electronic resource] : institutionalized individualism and its social and political consequences / Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim

Author
Beck, Ulrich, 1944-2015
Published
London : SAGE, [2002]
Copyright Date
©2002
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxv, 221 pages).
Additional Creators
Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth, 1946-
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: Individualization in a Non-Linear Mode -- Individually, Together -- Institutionalized Individualism -- Losing the Traditional -- Individualization and 'Precarious Freedoms' -- A Life of One's Own in a Runaway World -- Individualization, Globalization and Politics -- Beyond Status and Class? -- The Ambivalent Social Structure -- Poverty and Wealth in a áSelf-Driven Culture' -- From áLiving for Others' to áA Life of One's Own' -- Individualization and Women -- On the Way to the Post-Familial Family -- From a Community of Need to Elective Affinities -- Division of Labour, Self-Imaging and Life Projects -- New Conflicts in the Family -- Declining Birthrates and the Wish to Have Children -- Apparatuses Do Not Care for People -- Health and Responsibility in the Age of Genetic Technology -- Death of One's Own, Life of One's Own -- Hopes from Transience -- Freedom's Children -- Freedom's Fathers -- Zombie Categories.
Summary
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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ISBN
9781446218693 (ebook)
Audience Notes
Specialized.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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