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Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and Its Social and Political Consequences

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Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and Its Social and Political Consequences - Beck, Ulrich, Dr., and Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth, Professor
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Individualization argues that we are in the midst of a fundamental change in the nature of society and politics. This change hinges around two processes: globalization and individualization. The book demonstrates that individualization is a structural characteristic of highly differentiated societies, and does not imperil social cohesion, but actually makes it possible. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that it is vital to distinguish between the neo-liberal idea of the free-market individual and the concept ...

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Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and Its Social and Political Consequences 2002, Sage Publications Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780761961123

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Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and Its Social and Political Consequences 2002, Sage Publications Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780761961116

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