Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences
by Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
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The authors perceive that we humans are in the midst of a fundamental change in the nature of society and politics. This change hinges on the two processes of globalisation and individualisation.Tags
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Ulrich Beck (1944-2015) was Professor of Sociology at the University of Munich and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim is Professor of Sociology at the University of Erlangen.
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- Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences
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- Nonfiction, Sociology, Economics, General Nonfiction
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- 302.5 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Mass Communication & Media Relation of individual to society
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- HM1276 .B43 — Social sciences Sociology (General) Sociology Social psychology Social influence. Social pressure
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