Individualization
Subtitle: institutionalized individualism and its social and political consequences
By: Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim.
Contributors: Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth, 1946-
Series: Theory, culture & society; Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Individualism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Losing the traditional: Individualization; title: and 'precarious freedoms' 1; title: 2 A life of one's own in a runaway world: Individualization,; title: globalization and politics 22; title: 3 Beyond status and class? 30; title: 4 The ambivalent social structure: Poverty and wealth; title: in a 'self-driven culture' 42; title: 5 From 'living for others' to 'a life of one's own':; title: Individualization and women 54; title: 6 On the way to a post-familial family: From a community; title: of need to elective affinities 85; title: 7 Division of labour, self-image and life projects:; title: New conflicts in the family 101; title: 8 Declining birthrates and the wish to have children 119; title: 9 Apparatuses do not care for people 129; title: 10 Health and responsibility in the age of genetic technology 139; title: 11 Death of one's own, life of one's own: Hopes from transience 151; title: 12 Freedom's children 156; title: 13 Freedom's fathers 172; title: 14 Zombie categories: Interview with Ulrich Beck 202.