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Contested Individualization

Debates about Contemporary Personhood

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  • © 2007

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  1. Cosmo Howard
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introducing Individualization

    • Cosmo Howard
    Pages 1-23

  3. Three Models of Individualized Biography

    • Cosmo Howard
    Pages 25-43

  4. Varieties of Individualism

    • Anna Yeatman
    Pages 45-59

  5. Individualization and the Life Course: Toward a Theoretical Model and Empirical Evidence

    • Melinda Mills
    Pages 61-79

  6. Individualization as an Interpretive Scheme of Inequality: Why Class and Inequality Persist

    • Gerd Nollmann, Hermann Strasser
    Pages 81-97

  7. Individualization and Ethical Agency

    • Paul Hoggett, Marj Mayo, Chris Miller
    Pages 99-116

  8. Sutured Selves, Queer Connections: Personal Lives at the Cutting Edge of Individualization

    • Sasha Roseneil
    Pages 117-134

  9. “Lives of Their Own” Free from Violence: Individualization and Child-Welfare Interventions

    • Harry Ferguson
    Pages 135-151

  10. The New Social “isms”: Individualization and Social Policy Reform in Canada

    • Janine Brodie
    Pages 153-169

  11. Governing Individuality

    • Paul Henman
    Pages 171-185

  12. Institutionalized Individualism and the Care of the Self: Single Mothers and the State

    • Michelle Brady
    Pages 187-208

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 209-241
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Howard brings together top contributorsin avolume that provides a survey of new research and theoretical work on the topic of individualization. Topics covered include gender, social policy reform, and economy.

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"This book addresses one of the most discussed topics in behavioral sciences since the early 1980s. The range of topics dealt with is impressive, and the author exhibits a creative linking of contemporary debates on individualization to the neo-liberal model of social governance, welfare state reform, and globalization." - Hermann Strasser, Professor of Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

"If one wants to analyze the present and the future of modernity one has to understand the process of 'institutionalized individualization' and its consequences, which means: no beds are left to re-embed. Individualization, therefore, undercuts and transforms basic institutions like family life, gender relations, social class, party systems, religion etc. This book is a must-read - it clarifies the concept of individualization and its operational meanings, it represents the controversies and, by all this, demonstrates the necessity to use the concept of individualization in order to understand the fundamental changes of our time." - Ulrich Beck, Professor for Sociology, University of Munich and London School of Economics and Political Sciences

About the authors

COSMO HOWARD is Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria, British Columbia, USA.

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