Pekka Sulkunen

The Saturated Society

Governing Risk & Lifestyles in Consumer Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 505g
• ISBN-13: 9780761959410
• ISBN-10: 0761959416
• Artikelnr.: 26010081

Autorenporträt

Pekka Sulkunen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Helsinki

Inhaltsangabe

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