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Individualization institutionalized individualism and its social and political consequences /

Beck, Ulrich, 1944-

Individualization institutionalized individualism and its social and political consequences / [electronic resource] : Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim. - London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2002. - xxv, 221 p. - Theory, culture & society . - Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1 Losing the traditional: Individualization -- and 'precarious freedoms' 1 -- 2 A life of one's own in a runaway world: Individualization, -- globalization and politics 22 -- 3 Beyond status and class? 30 -- 4 The ambivalent social structure: Poverty and wealth -- in a 'self-driven culture' 42 -- 5 From 'living for others' to 'a life of one's own': -- Individualization and women 54 -- 6 On the way to a post-familial family: From a community -- of need to elective affinities 85 -- 7 Division of labour, self-image and life projects: -- New conflicts in the family 101 -- 8 Declining birthrates and the wish to have children 119 -- 9 Apparatuses do not care for people 129 -- 10 Health and responsibility in the age of genetic technology 139 -- 11 Death of one's own, life of one's own: Hopes from transience 151 -- 12 Freedom's children 156 -- 13 Freedom's fathers 172 -- 14 Zombie categories: Interview with Ulrich Beck 202.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.





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Individualism.


Electronic books.

HM1276 / .B43 2002

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