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Title Contested individualization : political sociologies of contemporary personhood / edited by Cosmo Howard
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

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Contents Putting Gender Back In: Individualization and Social Policy Reform / Janine Brody -- Late Modernity, Individualization, and Identity Capital: A Synopsis of Findings / James C̥ť -- The New Individualism: The Emotional Costs of Globalization / Anthony Elliott -- Individualization, Social Policy, and the Democratization of Personhood and Family Life / Harry Ferguson -- Values, Role, and Character / Paul Hoggett -- The Risk Society and Young People: Life at the Intersection of Risk, Economy, and Illiberal Governmentalities / Peter Kelly -- Is Individualization Freeing, Redistributing Risk, or Changing Inequality Structures?: Five Key Debates in the Life Course Literature / Melinda Mills -- Sutured Selves, Queer Connections: Intimacy at the Cutting Edge of Individualization / Sasha Roseneil -- Individualization as a Scheme of Interpretation: Why Class (and) Inequalities Persist / Hermann Strasser -- Individualization: Forms, Trajectories, Genealogies / William Walters -- Individualization and Personhood / Anna Yeatman
Summary Howard brings together top contributors in a volume that provides a survey of new research and theoretical work on the topic of individualization. Topics covered include gender, social policy reform, and economy
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Subject Individualism.
Social psychology.
Social policy.
social psychology.
public policy.
Individualism
Social policy
Social psychology
Form Electronic book
Author Howard, Cosmo
ISBN 9780230609259
0230609252