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Reflections on the biographical turn in social science
Michael Rustin
- pp 51-70
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The Corrosion of Character (1998) as discussed by the authors describes the transition from The Hidden Injuries of Class (1972) in Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb's classic book of that title, to Sennett's recent study of the children of that generation.Abstract:
Contemporary theories of individualisation (Beck 1992; Giddens 1991,
1992) argue that modern society is giving a new importance to individuals.
Where earlier agrarian and industrial societies provided social scripts,
which most individuals were expected to follow, contemporary societies
throw more responsibility on to individuals to choose their own identities.
Social structures-classes, extended families, occupational communities,
long-term employment within a firm-which formerly provided strong
frames of identity, grow weaker. Simultaneously, society exposes
individuals to bombardments of information, alternative versions of how
life might be lived, and requires of individuals that they construct an
‘authentic’ version of themselves, making use of the numerous
identityprops which consumer-society makes available. The transition
from The Hidden Injuries of Class (1972) in Richard Sennett and Jonathan
Cobb’s classic book of that title, to Sennett’s recent study of the children of
that generation The Corrosion of Character (1998) provides one description
of this transition, which Sennett represents as involving as much loss as
gain in terms of psychic and moral wellbeing.read more
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