Challenges of Individualization

• Main Author: Genov, Nikolai (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Social sciences-Philosophy.; Political sociology.; Emigration and immigration.; Globalization.; Social policy.; Social Theory.; Political Sociology.; Migration.; Social Policy.

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' modernity? Can the concept of individu...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Global Context
• 2. Social Reality and Concepts
• 3. Millennia of Individualization
• 4. Upgrading Employability
• 5. Organizational Settings of Individualization
• 6. Cross-Border Migration
• 7. Migration Crisis
• 8. Futures of Individualization.