Individualization : institutionalized individualism and its social and political consequences /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Beck, Ulrich, 1944-2015
Other Authors: Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth, 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2002.
Series:Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
Subjects:
Individualism.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Individualism
Individualisierung
Risikogesellschaft
Kohäsion
Gesellschaft
Individualisering.
Sociale verandering.
Institutionalisering.
Individualisme.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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