| Author | : Ulrich Beck (socioloog) |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2002-02-04 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780761961123 |
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.
| Author | : Ulrich Beck |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2002-02-04 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780761961123 |
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
| Author | : Nikolai Genov |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2018-07-16 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 134995828X |
This book critically engages with a series of provocative questions that ask: Why are contemporary societies so dependent on constructive and destructive effects of individualization? Is this phenomenon only related to the ‘second’ or ‘late’ modernity? Can the concept of individualization be productively used for developing a sociological diagnosis of our time? The innovative answers suggested in this book are focused on two types of challenges accompanying the rise of individualization. First, that it is caused by controversial changes in social structures and action patterns. Second, that the effects of individualization question varieties of the common good. Both challenges have a long history but reached critical intensity in advanced contemporary societies in the context of current globalization.
| Author | : Georg Neubauer |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2012-06-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 3110811006 |
| Author | : C. Howard |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2007-11-12 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0230609252 |
Howard brings together top contributorsin avolume that provides a survey of new research and theoretical work on the topic of individualization. Topics covered include gender, social policy reform, and economy.
| Author | : Yunxiang Yan |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2020-08-19 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1000325539 |
Chinese society has seen phenomenal change in the last 30 years. Two of the most profound changes have been the rise of the individual in both public and private spheres and the consequent individualization of Chinese society itself. Yet, despite China's recent dramatic entrance into global politics and economics, neither of these significant shifts has been fully analysed. China may indeed present an alternative model of social transformation in the age of globalisation - so its path to development may have particular implications for the developing world.The Individualization of Chinese Society reveals how individual agency has been on the rise since the 1970s and how this has impacted on everyday life and Chinese society more broadly. The book presents a wide range of detailed case studies - on the impact of economic policy, patterns of kinship, changes in marriage relations and the socio-economic position of women, the development of youth culture, the politics of consumerism, and shifting power relations in everyday life.
| Author | : M. Dawson |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2013-05-14 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1137003421 |
Influenced most notably by Émile Durkheim and Zygmunt Bauman, Dawson outlines how this long neglected stream of socialist theory can help us more fully understand, and possibly move beyond, the problems of neoliberalism and our conceptions of political individualism.
| Author | : Dapo Akande |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2024-01-26 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0192872206 |
The Individualization of War examines the status of individuals in contemporary armed conflict in three main capacities: as subject to violence but deserving of protection; as liable to harm because of their responsibility for attacks on others; and as agents who can be held accountable for the perpetration of crimes.
| Author | : United States. Education Office |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 1968 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
