Individualization
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Individualization

Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences

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Individualization

Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences

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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 as much as basic rights are internalized and everyone wants to or must be economically active, the spiral of individualization destroys the given foundations of social co-existence.

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Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd
Year
2001
ISBN
9781446223413
Edition
1
Topic
Ciencias sociales
Subtopic
Sociología

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword by Scott Lash: Individualization in a non-linear mode
  6. Foreword by Zygmunt Bauman: Individually, together
  7. Authors’preface: Institutionalized individualism
  8. 1 Losing the traditional: Individualization and ‘precarious freedoms’
  9. 2 A life of one’s own in a runaway world: Individualization, globalization and politics
  10. 3 Beyond status and class?
  11. 4 The ambivalent social structure: Poverty and wealth in a ‘self-driven culture’
  12. 5 From ‘living for others’ to ‘a life of one’s own’: Individualization and women
  13. 6 On the way to a post-familial family: From a community of need to elective affinities
  14. 7 Division of labour, self-image and life projects: New conflicts in the family
  15. 8 Declining birthrates and the wish to have children
  16. 9 Apparatuses do not care for people
  17. 10 Health and responsibility in the age of genetic technology
  18. 11 Death of one’s own, life of one’s own: Hopes from transience
  19. 12 Freedom’s children
  20. 13 Freedom’s fathers
  21. 14 Zombie categories: Interview with Ulrich Beck
  22. Index