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Challenges of Individualization

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Provides an outline for a differentiated analytical concept of individualization
  • Includes analyses of the long history of individualization through a discussion of the historical production and use of gold
  • Approaches the concept of individualization as phenomena that can be identified throughout human history, rather than characteristic to modern and post-modern societies

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. The Global Context

    • Nikolai Genov
    Pages 1-37
  3. Social Reality and Concepts

    • Nikolai Genov
    Pages 39-67
  4. Millennia of Individualization

    • Nikolai Genov
    Pages 69-89
  5. Upgrading Employability

    • Nikolai Genov
    Pages 91-116
  6. Organizational Settings of Individualization

    • Nikolai Genov
    Pages 117-143
  7. Cross-Border Migration

    • Nikolai Genov
    Pages 145-176
  8. Migration Crisis

    • Nikolai Genov
    Pages 177-207
  9. Futures of Individualization

    • Nikolai Genov
    Pages 209-251
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 253-254

About this book

This book critically engages with a series of provocative questions that ask: Why are contemporary societies so dependent on constructive and destructive effects of individualization? Is this phenomenon only related to the ‘second’ or ‘late’ modernity? Can the concept of individualization be productively used for developing a sociological diagnosis of our time? The innovative answers suggested in this book are focused on two types of challenges accompanying the rise of individualization. First, that it is caused by controversial changes in social structures and action patterns. Second, that the effects of individualization question varieties of the common good. Both challenges have a long history but reached critical intensity in advanced contemporary societies in the context of current globalization.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Osteuropa-Institut, FU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Nikolai Genov

About the author

Nikolai Genov is Professor Emeritus of the Free University Berlin, Germany. He received his PhD from the University in Leipzig, Germany, and is the author of more than 300 scientific publications in 28 countries.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Challenges of Individualization

  • Authors: Nikolai Genov

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95828-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Macmillan Publishers Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95827-6Published: 25 July 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95937-2Published: 10 December 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-95828-3Published: 16 July 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 254

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Social Theory, Political Sociology, Migration, Globalization, Social Policy

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