ENGLISH

Challenges of Individualization

By Nikolai Genov

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2018
ISBN
1349958271, 9781349958276
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2221971 bytes)
Pages
254\263
Time added
2018-07-23 09:52:21

Description

This bookcritically 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.

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