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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827503403321

Autore

Houtman Dick

Titolo

Paradoxes of individualization : social control and social conflict in contemporary modernity / / Dick Houtman, Stef Aupers and Willem de Koster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2011

ISBN

1-351-91285-2

1-315-24737-2

1-283-31529-7

9786613315298

0-7546-9774-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AupersStef <1969->

KosterWillem de

Disciplina

302.5/4

Soggetti

Individualism

Individuality

Social conflict

Social control

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1  Introduction: The Myth of Individualization and the Dream of Individualism""; ""2  Agony of Choice?: The Social Embeddedness of Consumer Decisions""; ""3  Beyond the Spiritual Supermarket""; ""4  â€?Be Who You Want to Beâ€??: Commodified Agency in Online Computer Games""; ""5  â€?Stormfront is like a Second Home to Meâ€?: Social Exclusion of  Right-Wing Extremists""; ""6  Contesting Individualism Online""; ""7  Two Lefts and Two Rights: Class Voting and Cultural Voting in the Netherlands, 2002""

""8  One Nation without God?: Post-Christian Cultural Conflict in  the Netherlands""""9  Secular Intolerance in a Post-Christian Society: The Case of Islam in  the Netherlands""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""



Sommario/riassunto

Paradoxes of Individualization addresses one of the most hotly debated issues in contemporary sociology: whether a process of individualization is liberating selves from society so as to make them the authors of their personal biographies. The book adopts a cultural-sociological approach that firmly rejects such a notion of individualization as naïve. The process is instead conceptualized as an increasing social significance of moral notions of individual liberty, personal authenticity and cultural tolerance, which informs two paradoxes. Firstly, chapters about consumer behavior, computer gami