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Paradoxes of Individualization - Social Control and Social Conflict in Contemporary Modernity (Paperback, New Ed)
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Paradoxes of Individualization - Social Control and Social Conflict in Contemporary Modernity (Paperback, New Ed)
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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 naA-ve. 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. Firstly, chapters about consumer behavior,
computer gaming, new age spirituality and right-wing extremism
demonstrate that this individualism entails a new, yet often
unacknowledged, form of social control. The second paradox,
addressed in chapters about religious, cultural and political
conflict, is concerned with the fact that it is precisely
individualism's increased social significance that has made it
morally and politically contested. Paradoxes of Individualization,
will therefore be of interest to scholars and students of cultural
sociology, cultural anthropology, political science, and cultural,
religious and media studies, and particularly to those with
interests in social theory, culture, politics and religion.
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