Beyond class and nation: reframing social inequalities in a globalizing world |
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Authors: | Beck Ulrich |
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Institution: | Insitut fur Soziologie, Ludwig-Maximillans-Universitet, Munich. u.beck@lmu.de |
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Abstract: | From the start individualization theory is the investigation of the paradigm shift in social inequality. Furthermore it shows, how the transnationalization of social inequalities bursts the framework of institutional responses – nation state (parties), trade unions, welfare state systems and the national sociologies of social classes. In this essay I shall try to conceptually elucidate the ‘cosmopolitan perspective’ on relations of social inequality in three cases: (1) the inequality of global risk; (2) the Europe‐wide dynamic of inequality; and (3) transnational inequalities, which emerge from the capacities and resources to transcend borders. Before that I take up Will Atkinson's question: ‘What exactly constitutes individualization and to what extent has it really displaced class?’ ( Atkinson 2007 : Abstract) |
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Keywords: | Institutionalized individualization transnationalisation of social inequalities methodological nationalism methodological cosmopolitanism |
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