Contested individualization
Subtitle: debates about contemporary personhood
By: edited by Cosmo Howard
Contributors: Howard, Cosmo
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781403977700
Subjects: Social psychology; Social problems; Social policy; Social change; Individualism; Socialization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-232) and index
Table of contents: title: Introducing individualization / Cosmo Howard; title: Three models of individualized biography / Cosmo Howard; title: Varieties of individualism / Anna Yeatman; title: Individualization and the life course : towards a theoretical model and empirical evidence / Melinda Mills; title: Individualization as an interpretive scheme of inequality : why class and inequality persist / Gerd Nollmann and Herman Strasser; title: Individualization and ethical agency / Paul Hoggett, Marj Mayo, and Chris Miller; title: Sutured selves, queer connections : personal lives at the cutting edge of individualization / Sasha Roseneil; title: "Lives of their own" free from violence : individualization and child welfare interventions / Harry Ferguson; title: The new social "isms" : individualization and social policy reform in Canada / Janine Brodie; title: Governing individuality / Paul Henman; title: Institutionalized individualism and the care of the self : single mothers and the state / Michelle Brady