Individualization institutionalized individualism and its social and political consequences /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beck, Ulrich, 1944-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth, 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2002.
Series:Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.