Challenges of Individualization
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’ modernit
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Challenges of Individualization
Challenges of Individualization
Nikolai Genov
Challenges of Individualization
Nikolai Genov Osteuropa-Institut FU Berlin Berlin, Germany
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To the memory of Natalia
Preface
The aim of the present monograph is to contribute to the sociological diagnosis of our time. It is marked by the enormous rise of the rights and responsibilities of individuals. Their orientation, decisions, and actions matter a lot to the local and global economy, politics, and culture. The life projects of individuals, the means by which they are carried out, and their outcomes are a fundamental component of the contemporary historical situation. That is why the topic of accelerated individualization is so attractive for scholars. Styles of study vary as a result of dealing with human beings in time and space, with statistical averages concerning the parameters of individualization or with explanatory models of the interplay between individuals, groups, communities, organizations, and societies. Thus, the stud
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