The Individualized Society Hardcover - 2001 - 1st Edition
by Zygmunt Bauman
First line
According to the OED, the first usage of the word 'labour' in the meaning of 'physical exertion directed to the supply of the material wants of the community' was recorded in 1776.
From the rear cover
We are spurred into action by our troubles and fears; but all too often our action fails to address the true causes of our worries. When trying to make sense of our lives, we tend to blame our own failings and weaknesses for our discomforts and defeats. And in doing so, we make things worse rather than better. Reasonable beings that we are, how does this happen and why does it go on happening?
These are the questions addressed in this new book by Zygmunt Bauman - one of the most original and perceptive social thinkers writing today. For Bauman, the task of sociology is not to censor or correct the stories we tell of our lives, but to show that there are more ways in which our life stories can be told. By bringing into view the many complex dependencies invisible from the vantage point of private experience, sociology can help us to link our individual decisions and actions to the deeper causes of our troubles and fears - to the ways we live, to the conditions under which we act, to the socially drawn limits of our imagination and ambition. Sociology can help us to understand the processes that have shaped the society in which we live today, a society in which individualization has become our fate. And sociology can also help us to see that if our individual but shared anxieties are to be effectively tackled, they need to be addressed collectively, true to their social, not individual, nature.
The Individualized Society will be of great interest to students of sociology, politics and the social sciences and humanities generally. It will also appeal to a broader range of readers who are interested in the changing nature of our social and political life today.
Details
- Title The Individualized Society
- Author Zygmunt Bauman
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press, Cambridge
- Date 2001-02-08
- ISBN 9780745625065 / 0745625061
- Weight 1.24 lbs (0.56 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.75 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.91 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Individualism, Postmodernism - Social aspects
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00024882
- Dewey Decimal Code 302.54
Media reviews
Citations
- Choice, 04/01/2002, Page 1502
More Copies for Sale
The Individualized Society
by Zygmunt Bauman
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780745625065 / 0745625061
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
- Item Price
-
SGD 75.51SGD 6.85 shipping to USA
Show Details
The Individualized Society
by Zygmunt Bauman
- New
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780745625065 / 0745625061
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Seller
-
Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
SGD 96.41SGD 17.28 shipping to USA
Show Details
The Individualized Society
by Bauman, Zygmunt
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780745625065 / 0745625061
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
SGD 83.49FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
The Individualized Society
by Zygmunt Bauman
- New
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780745625065 / 0745625061
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Seller
-
Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
SGD 108.46SGD 17.28 shipping to USA
Show Details
The Individualized Society
by Bauman, Zygmunt
- New
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780745625065 / 0745625061
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
SGD 120.03SGD 17.36 shipping to USA
Show Details
The Individualized Society
by Zygmunt Bauman
- New
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780745625065 / 0745625061
- Quantity Available
- 3
- Seller
-
Woodside, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
SGD 108.95SGD 5.48 shipping to USA
Show Details
The Individualized Society
by Bauman, Zygmunt
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780745625065 / 0745625061
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Newport Coast, California, United States
- Item Price
-
SGD 156.18FREE shipping to USA