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Title: | Rethinking individualization: The basic script and the three variants of institutionalized individualism | Authors: | CORTOIS, Liza Laermans, R |
Issue Date: | 2018 | Publisher: | SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD | Source: | European journal of social theory, 21 (1) , p. 60 -78 | Abstract: | This article proposes a more culturalist and variegated conception of the individual than that presented by individualization theorists. Inspired by the approach of the individual advocated by Emile Durkheim, Talcott Parsons and John Meyers, it first outlines the general script of the individual-as-actor that informs modern individualism as well as the generic characteristics that are routinely attributed to persons such as agency and free will. It subsequently reconstructs three predominant interpretations of this general script, i.e. utilitarian, moral and expressive individualism. For each variant, the intellectual genesis and overall definition of the institutionalization in specific societal domains and the dominant articulations in social theory are briefly presented. With this threefold distinction, the aim is to synthesize the extensive literature on individualism and to show the sociological strengths of approaching subjectivity in terms of institutionalized scripts. | Keywords: | cultural script;expressive individualism;individualism;institutionalization;moral individualism;utilitarian individualism | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/31706 | ISSN: | 1368-4310 | e-ISSN: | 1461-7137 | DOI: | 10.1177/1368431017698474 | ISI #: | WOS:000422781600004 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution |
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