Challenges of Individualization
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Beschreibung
This book critically engages with a series of provocative questions that ask: Why are contemporary societies so dependent on constructive and destructive effects of individualization? Is this phenomenon only related to the ‘second’ or ‘late’ modernity? Can the concept of individualization be productively used for developing a sociological diagnosis of our time? The innovative answers suggested in this book are focused on two types of challenges accompanying the rise of individualization. First, it is caused by controversial changes in social structures and action patterns. Second, the effects of individualization question varieties of the common good. Both challenges have a long history but reached critical intensity in the advanced contemporary societies in the context of current globalization.
This book critically engages with a series of provocative questions that ask: Why are contemporary societies so dependent on constructive and destructive effects of individualization? Is this phenomenon only related to the ‘second’ or ‘late’ modernity? Can the concept of individualization be productively used for developing a sociological diagnosis of our time? The innovative answers suggested in this book are focused on two types of challenges accompanying the rise of individualization. First, it is caused by controversial changes in social structures and action patterns. Second, the effects of individualization question varieties of the common good. Both challenges have a long history but reached critical intensity in the advanced contemporary societies in the context of current globalization.
Provides an outline for a differentiated analytical concept of individualization
Includes analyses of the long history of individualization through a discussion of the historical production and use of gold
Approaches the concept of individualization as phenomena that can be identified throughout human history, rather than characteristic to modern and post-modern societies
Autor*in
Nikolai Genov
Themen in »Challenges of Individualization«
Futures of Individualization Millennia of Individualization Organizational Settings of Individualization Phenomena of Individualization autonomous action employability global social trends governance trans-border migration