Paradoxes of individualization : social control and social conflict in contemporary modernity / by Dick Houtman, Stef Aupers and Willem de Koster.

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Houtman, Dick

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online resource

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9780754697749
0754697746

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Paradoxes of individualization.DDC classification:

302.5/4 23

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HM1276 .H68 2011eb

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Contents:

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.

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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 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.

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