{"product_id":"individualization-9780761961123","title":"Individualization","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIndividualization\u003c\/strong\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUlrich 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 of individualization. The result is the most complete discussion of individualization currently available, showing how individualization relates to basic social rights and also paid employment; and concluding that in as much as basic rights are internalized and everyone wants to or must be economically active, the spiral of individualization destroys the given foundations of social co-existence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e`Ulrich Beck′s \u003cb\u003eRisk Society\u003c\/b\u003e, and indeed the theory of \"reflexive modernization\" is characterized by two theses: an environmental thesis and individualization thesis.... In Anglo-Saxon sociology the risk thesis has been enormously influential. The individualization thesis, for its part, has passed virtually ignored. That is the shortcoming that this book \u003cb\u003eIndividualization\u003c\/b\u003e addressess.... In this single volume this thesis receives the exclusive attention of Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim. This book represents the other half of Beck′s work. And this half today may be the most important half′ - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eScott Lash, from the Foreword\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLosing the Traditional    Individualization and ′Precarious Freedoms′ A Life of One′s Own in a Runaway World    Individualization, Globalization and Politics Beyond Status and Class? The Ambivalent Social Structure    Poverty and Wealth in a ′Self-Driven Culture′ From `Living for Others′ to ′A Life of One′s Own′    Individualization and Women On the Way to the Post-Familial Family    From a Community of Need to Elective Affinities Division of Labour, Self-Imaging and Life Projects    New Conflicts in the Family Declining Birthrates and the Wish to Have Children Apparatuses Do Not Care for People Health and Responsibility in the Age of Genetic Technology Death of One′s Own, Life of One′s Own    Hopes from Transience Freedom′s Children Freedom′s Fathers Zombie Categories    Interview with Ulrich Beck","brand":"SAGE Publications Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768006902103,"sku":"9780761961123","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780761961123.jpg?v=1758715874","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/individualization-9780761961123","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}