Paradoxes of Individualization: Social Control and Social Conflict in Contemporary Modernity – PDF/EPUB Version Downloadable

Paradoxes of Individualization addresses one of the most hotly debated issues in contemporary sociology: whether a process of individualization is liberating selves from society so as to make them the authors of their personal biographies. The book adopts a cultural-sociological approach that firmly rejects such a notion of individualization as na