Individualization : institutionalized individualism and its social and political consequences /: institutionalized individualism and its social and political consequences. (2001)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim.
• Other Names: Beck, Ulrich, 1944-2015; Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth, 1946-
• 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.
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2001
• Extent: 1 online resource (222 pages)
• Subjects: 302.5/4; Individualism; Individualismo; Individualism; Individualisering; Sociale verandering; Institutionalisering; Individualisme; Individualisierung; Risikogesellschaft; Kohäsion; Gesellschaft
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781412931410
• Related ISBNs: 141293141X
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.