The saturated society : governing risk and lifestyles in consumer culture / Pekka Sulkunen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sulkunen, Pekka.

Series:

Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society

Theory, culture & society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lifestyles--Health aspects.

Lifestyles.

Health behavior--Public opinion.

Health behavior.

Health promotion--Political aspects.

Health promotion.

Health promotion--Social aspects.

Health promotion--Government policy.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resourece (x, 210 p.).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, [Calif.] ; London : SAGE, 2009.

Los Angeles : SAGE, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Detailed and thought-provoking discussion of lifestyle regulation and how preventive lifestyle policies need to be shaped with the 'saturated society' - a society of self-controlled, fully autonomous individuals - in mind.

Contents:

Cover ; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Publisher's Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: the Problem of Justification; 2 Lifestyle and the Social Bond; 3 The Good Order of Nature: Progress and Criticism in Adam Smith's Sociology of Modernity; 4 Autonomy: the Contracting Individual; 5 Intimacy: the Romantic Self; 6 The New Consumer Society and Its Critics; 7 The Welfare State in the Consumer Society; 8 From Pastoral to Epistolary Power; 9 Inner-Directed or Other-Directed Character? Agency and Citizenship in Mass Society; 10 Re-inventing the Social Contract; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612623189

9780761959410

0761959416

9781282623187

1282623184

9780857026316

0857026313

OCLC:

638860859