| Description |
xxv, 221 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Theory, culture & society |
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Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
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| Contents |
Foreword / Scott Lash -- Individualization in a non-linear mode -- Foreword / Zygmunt Bauman -- 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 self-driven culture' -- From living for others' to 'a 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 |
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Interview with Ulrich Beck |
| 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 |
| Notes |
First published 2001 |
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Translation PatrickCamiller ©2001 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Individualism.
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| Author |
Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth, 1946- author
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| LC no. |
2002277964 |
| ISBN |
0761961119 |
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0761961127 (paperback) |
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