Individualization [[electronic resource] ] : institutionalized individualism and its social and political consequences / / Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
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| Autore: |
Beck Ulrich <1944-2015.>
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| Titolo: |
Individualization [[electronic resource] ] : institutionalized individualism and its social and political consequences / / Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : SAGE, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 302.5/4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Individualism |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
Beck-GernsheimElisabeth <1946->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Individualization |
| ISBN: | 1-4129-3141-X |
| 0-7619-6111-9 | |
| 9786610369690 | |
| 1-280-36969-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910461899703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)