Individualization : Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences.
Material type: TextSeries: Published in association with Theory, Culture & SocietyPublisher: London : SAGE Publications, 2001Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (239 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781412931410Subject(s): IndividualismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Individualization : Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political ConsequencesDDC classification: 302.54 LOC classification: HM1276.B43Online resources: Click to ViewCover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword by Scott Lash: Individualization in a non-linear mode -- Foreword by Zygmunt Bauman: Individually, together -- Authors'preface: Institutionalized individualism -- 1 Losing the traditional: Individualization and 'precarious freedoms' -- 2 A life of one's own in a runaway world: Individualization, globalization and politics -- 3 Beyond status and class? -- 4 The ambivalent social structure: Poverty and wealth in a 'self-driven culture' -- 5 From 'living for others' to 'a life of one's own': Individualization and women -- 6 On the way to a post-familial family: From a community of need to elective affinities -- 7 Division of labour, self-image and life projects: New conflicts in the family -- 8 Declining birthrates and the wish to have children -- 9 Apparatuses do not care for people -- 10 Health and responsibility in the age of genetic technology -- 11 Death of one's own, life of one's own: Hopes from transience -- 12 Freedom's children -- 13 Freedom's fathers -- 14 Zombie categories: Interview with Ulrich Beck -- Index.
Individualization argues that we are in the midst of a fundamental change in the nature of society and politics. This change hinges around two processes: globalization and individualization. The book demonstrates that individualization is a structural characteristic of highly differentiated societies, and does not imperil social cohesion, but actually makes it possible. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that it is vital to distinguish between the neo-liberal idea of the free-market individual and the concept of individualization. The result is the most complete discussion of individualization currently available, showing how individualization relates to basic social rights and also paid employment; and concluding that in.
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