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

Houtman, Dick. (Author). Aupers, Stef, 1969- (Added Author). Koster, Willem de. (Added Author).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 0754679012
ISBN: 9780754679011
ISBN: 0754679020
ISBN: 9780754679028
ISBN: 0754697746
ISBN: 9780754697749
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 183 pages)
remote
Publisher: Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. Introduction: The Myth of Individualization and the Dream of Individualism -- 2. Agony of Choice?: The Social Embeddedness of Consumer Decisions -- 3. Beyond the Spiritual Supermarket -- 4. 'Be Who You Want to Be'?: Commodified Agency in Online Computer Games -- 5. 'Stormfront is like a Second Home to Me': Social Exclusion of Right-Wing Extremists -- 6. Contesting Individualism Online -- 7. Two Lefts and Two Rights: Class Voting and Cultural Voting in the Netherlands, 2002 -- 8. One Nation without God?: Post-Christian Cultural Conflict in the Netherlands -- 9. Secular Intolerance in a Post-Christian Society: The Case of Islam in the NetherlandsBibliography.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.