Contested individualization : debates about contemporary personhood / edited by Cosmo Howard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Howard, Cosmo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social psychology.

Social problems.

Social policy.

Social change.

Individualism.

Socialization.

Physical Description:

vi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Contents:

Introducing individualization / Cosmo Howard

Three models of individualized biography / Cosmo Howard

Varieties of individualism / Anna Yeatman

Individualization and the life course : towards a theoretical model and empirical evidence / Melinda Mills

Individualization as an interpretive scheme of inequality : why class and inequality persist / Gerd Nollmann and Herman Strasser

Individualization and ethical agency / Paul Hoggett, Marj Mayo, and Chris Miller

Sutured selves, queer connections : personal lives at the cutting edge of individualization / Sasha Roseneil

"Lives of their own" free from violence : individualization and child welfare interventions / Harry Ferguson

The new social "isms" : individualization and social policy reform in Canada / Janine Brodie

Governing individuality / Paul Henman

Institutionalized individualism and the care of the self : single mothers and the state / Michelle Brady.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-232) and index.

ISBN:

1403977704

9781403977700

OCLC:

105443127

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