Format:
XXV, 221 S
,
24 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
0761961119
,
0761961127
Series Statement:
Theory, Culture & Society
Content:
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
Note:
Machine generated contents note: 1 Losing the traditional: Individualizationand '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.
,
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.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
Individualisierung
;
Risikogesellschaft
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2002277964.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0657/2002277964-d.html
Author information:
Beck, Ulrich 1944-2015
Author information:
Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth 1946-
