The Saturated Society
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The Saturated Society

Governing Risk & Lifestyles in Consumer Culture

  1. 225 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Saturated Society

Governing Risk & Lifestyles in Consumer Culture

About this book

How can policy makers justify public intervention into private life? And why does this interference often translate into contradictory or non-reflexive politics on lifestyles?

This engaging title discusses the social, cultural and policy consequences of these conditions as well as showing the effect of agency and choice upon regulation.

The book critically examines:

- Neo-Liberal ideology and the free market

- The Sociology of Modernity

- The New Consumer Society

- Citizenship in Mass Society

- The power of Autonomy

- The interaction of Regulation and Agency

It provides a developed ?genealogical? account of society, is enriched by original case-studies, and engages with a broad range of traditional approaches and sources - including the work of Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, Adam Smith and Pierre Bourdieu.

This well researched and thought-provoking work will be of interest to students of social policy and sociology as well as policy-makers and field workers.

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Information

Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780761959410
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9780857026316
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Publisher’s Acknowledgements
  6. 1 Introduction: the Problem of Justification
  7. 2 Lifestyle and the Social Bond
  8. 3 The Good Order of Nature: Progress and Criticism in Adam Smith’s Sociology of Modernity
  9. 4 Autonomy: the Contracting Individual
  10. 5 Intimacy: the Romantic Self
  11. 6 The New Consumer Society and Its Critics
  12. 7 The Welfare State in the Consumer Society
  13. 8 From Pastoral to Epistolary Power
  14. 9 Inner-Directed or Other-Directed Character? Agency and Citizenship in Mass Society
  15. 10 Re-inventing the Social Contract
  16. References
  17. Index

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