Saturated Society - Governing Risk & Lifestyles in Consumer Culture

Informationen zum Autor Pekka Sulkunen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Helsinki Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Lifestyle and the Social Bond The Good Order of Nature: Progress and Criticism in Adam Smith¿s Sociology of Modernity Autonomy: the Contracting individual Intimacy: the Romantic Self The New Consumer Society and Its Critics The Welfare State in the Consumer Society From Pastoral to Epistolary Power Inner-Directed or Other-Directed? Agency and Citizenship in Mass Society Re-Inventing the Social Contract

Product details

• Authors: Pekka Sulkunen
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.03.2009
• EAN: 9780761959410
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-5941-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society; Theory, Culture & Society (Har
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories