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UNINA9910826626203321 |
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Autore |
Beck Ulrich <1944-2015.> |
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Titolo |
Individualization : institutionalized individualism and its social and political consequences / / Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim |
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ISBN |
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1-4129-3141-X |
0-7619-6111-9 |
9786610369690 |
1-280-36969-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxv, 221 p.) |
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Collana |
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Theory, culture & society |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Beck-GernsheimElisabeth <1946-> |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Machine generated contents note: 1 Losing the traditional: Individualization -- and 'precarious freedoms' 1 -- 2 A life of one's own in a runaway world: Individualization, -- globalization and politics 22 -- 3 Beyond status and class? 30 -- 4 The ambivalent social structure: Poverty and wealth -- in a 'self-driven culture' 42 -- 5 From 'living for others' to 'a life of one's own': -- Individualization and women 54 -- 6 On the way to a post-familial family: From a community -- of need to elective affinities 85 -- 7 Division of labour, self-image and life projects: -- New conflicts in the family 101 -- 8 Declining birthrates and the wish to have children 119 -- 9 Apparatuses do not care for people 129 -- 10 Health and responsibility in the age of genetic technology 139 -- 11 Death of one's own, life of one's own: Hopes from transience 151 -- 12 Freedom's children 156 -- 13 Freedom's fathers 172 -- 14 Zombie categories: Interview with Ulrich Beck 202. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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