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

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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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Houtman, Dick
Other Authors: Aupers, Stef, 1969-, Koster, Willem de
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2011.
Subjects:
Individualism.
Individuality.
Social conflict.
Social control.
Table of 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.

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