| Description |
xxv, 221 p. |
| Series |
Theory, culture & society |
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Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Individualism.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth, 1946-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0761961119 |
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9780761961116 |
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0761961127 (pbk) |
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9781412931410 (electronic bk.) |
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