Jenseits von Klasse und Nation

Individualisierung und Transnationalisierung sozialer Ungleichheiten

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3940684
AutoresUlrich Beck (autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen59
Número4
Páginas301-325
Fecha de publicación2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSoziale Welt (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-6073
EditorialNomos Verlag (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5771/0038-6073-2008-4-301
OpenAlexW2327858664
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15

Individualization theory has been understood as a way of challenging the common paradigms within the studies of social inequality. This shift also addresses how the transnationalization of social inequalities challenges and alters the given framework of institutional settings - nation state (parties), trade unions, welfare state systems and the national sociologies of social inequalities. In this essay I will test the 'cosmopolitan perspective' and how it relates to social inequality focusing on three cases: (1) the inequality of global risk; (2) the European dynamics of inequality; and (3) transnational inequalities, which emerge from the capacities and resources to transcend borders. Before that I will tackle the questions: What exactly constitutes individualization and to what extent is it displacing class structures

Political science · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Sociology and Education Studies