Paradoxes of individualization : social control and social conflict in contemporary modernity /

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Author / Creator:Houtman, Dick.
Imprint:Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2011.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 183 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11119720
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Other authors / contributors:Aupers, Stef, 1969-
Koster, Willem de.
ISBN:9780754697749
0754697746
9780754679028
0754679020
9780754679011
0754679012
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Paradoxes of Individualization addresses one of the most hotly debated issues in contemporary sociology: whether a process of individualization is liberating selves from society so as to make them the authors of their personal biographies. The book adopts a cultural-sociological approach that firmly rejects such a notion of individualization as naïve. The process is instead conceptualized as an increasing social significance of moral notions of individual liberty, personal authenticity and cultural tolerance, which informs two paradoxes.
Other form:Print version: Houtman, Dick. Paradoxes of individualization. Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2011 9780754679028
Standard no.:9786613315298
7068320