Paradoxes of individualization : social control and social conflict in contemporary modernity / / Dick Houtman, Stef Aupers and Willem de Koster
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Houtman Dick
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| Titolo: |
Paradoxes of individualization : social control and social conflict in contemporary modernity / / Dick Houtman, Stef Aupers and Willem de Koster
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| Pubblicazione: | Farnham ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (196 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 302.5/4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Individualism |
| Individuality | |
| Social conflict | |
| Social control | |
| Altri autori: |
AupersStef <1969->
KosterWillem de
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| 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 �Be Who You Want to Be�?: Commodified Agency in Online Computer Games""; ""5 �Stormfront is like a Second Home to Me�: 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Paradoxes of individualization |
| ISBN: | 1-351-91285-2 |
| 1-315-24737-2 | |
| 1-283-31529-7 | |
| 9786613315298 | |
| 0-7546-9774-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827503403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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