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Individualization
Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences
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eBook - ePub
Individualization
Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences
About this book
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.
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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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword by Scott Lash: Individualization in a non-linear mode
- Foreword by Zygmunt Bauman: Individually, together
- Authorsāpreface: Institutionalized individualism
- 1 Losing the traditional: Individualization and āprecarious freedomsā
- 2 A life of oneās own in a runaway world: Individualization, globalization and politics
- 3 Beyond status and class?
- 4 The ambivalent social structure: Poverty and wealth in a āself-driven cultureā
- 5 From āliving for othersā to āa life of oneās ownā: Individualization and women
- 6 On the way to a post-familial family: From a community of need to elective affinities
- 7 Division of labour, self-image and life projects: New conflicts in the family
- 8 Declining birthrates and the wish to have children
- 9 Apparatuses do not care for people
- 10 Health and responsibility in the age of genetic technology
- 11 Death of oneās own, life of oneās own: Hopes from transience
- 12 Freedomās children
- 13 Freedomās fathers
- 14 Zombie categories: Interview with Ulrich Beck
- Index