Individualisation at Work

The Self between Freedom and Social Pathologies

Norbert Ebert (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

196 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-27174-6 (ISBN)

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Individualisation has become an ambiguous, but defining feature of late modern societies and while it is in part characterised by an increase in individual autonomy and a sense of liberation, individuals are equally required to negotiate a fragmented, pluralised and ambiguous social order by themselves. This book sheds light on the processes and nature of contemporary individualisation, specifically exploring the manner in which it unfolds under conditions of contemporary network capitalism. With attention to the modern workplace, where the individual and the organisation meet directly, but also in the wider community, Individualisation at Work reveals individualisation to become an ideological and ambiguous process of liberation, as conditions of marketisation and corporatisation transform the emancipatory qualities and motivations that define individualisation into a means for the coordination and reproduction of systemic imperatives, which are realised by individuals' qualities and capacities for self-realisation. A rigorous theoretical study, illustrated with interview material gathered amongst managers from internationally operating corporations, this book will appeal to sociologists with interests in work and organisations and the theory of contemporary modernity.

Norbert Ebert is Lecturer in Sociology at Macquarie University, Australia.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Structural Individualisation; Chapter 2 Normative Individualisation; Chapter 3 The Individualisation of Society; Chapter 4 The Individualisation of Organisations; Chapter 5 Managing Individualisation at Work; Chapter 6 Organising Individualisation at Work; Chapter 101 Conclusion Organised Individualisation;

Erscheinungsdatum	15.02.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-138-27174-8 / 1138271748
ISBN-13	978-1-138-27174-6 / 9781138271746
Zustand	Neuware