| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 221 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Theory, culture & society
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Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The authors perceive that we humans are in the midst of a fundamental change in the nature of society and politics. This change hinges on the two processes of globalisation and individualisation. |
| 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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Individualism.
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Individualism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth, 1946-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Beck, Ulrich, 1944- Individualization. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2002 (DLC) 2002277964 |
| ISBN |
141293141X (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9781412931410 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780761961116 |
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0761961119 |
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9780761961123 (paperback) |
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0761961127 (paperback) |
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9781446218693 (ebook) |
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1446218694 (ebook) |
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0761961119 |
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0761961127 (paperback) |
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