Contested Individualization

1. Introducing Individualization
Cosmo Howard

2. Three Models of Individualized Biography
Cosmo Howard

3. Varieties of Individualism
Anna Yeatman

4. Individualization and the Life Course: Toward a Theoretical Model and Empirical Evidence
Melinda Mills

5. Individualization as an Interpretive Scheme of Inequality: Why Class and Inequality Persist
Gerd Nollmann, Hermann Strasser

6. Individualization and Ethical Agency
Paul Hoggett, Marj Mayo, Chris Miller

7. Sutured Selves, Queer Connections: Personal Lives at the Cutting Edge of Individualization
Sasha Roseneil

8. “Lives of Their Own” Free from Violence: Individualization and Child-Welfare Interventions
Harry Ferguson

9. The New Social “isms”: Individualization and Social Policy Reform in Canada
Janine Brodie

10. Governing Individuality
Paul Henman

11. Institutionalized Individualism and the Care of the Self: Single Mothers and the State
Michelle Brady

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Social Theory, Gender Studies, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Sociology, general, Social Work