| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 221 pages) |
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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 -- 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Individualism.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
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Individualism
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Individualisierung
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Risikogesellschaft
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Kohäsion
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Gesellschaft
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Individualisering.
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Sociale verandering.
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Institutionalisering.
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Individualisme.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth, 1946-
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| ISBN |
141293141X |
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9781412931410 |
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9780761961116 |
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0761961119 |
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9780761961123 |
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0761961127 |
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9781446218693 |
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1446218694 |
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