Insecure Times

Living with Insecurity in Modern Society
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-415-17094-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 383 g

At a time when families break up and employment is often short-term, society is increasingly forced to operate against a background of insecurity. Insecure Times looks at how this sense of risk and instability has affected the major institutions of social life.
With examples and research taken from a range of European and North American societies today, this innovative text on contemporary society discusses such major issues as:

* the causes of social and economic insecurity
* insecurity and modern capitalism
* the role of the state
* insecurity and housing
* contemporary family life.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hill, Michael

Vail, John

Wheelock, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Organisationen und Institutionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors, Preface, 1 Insecure times: conceptualising insecurity and security, PART I Generating insecurity, PART II Institutionalising insecurity, PART III Insecurity as lived experience, Bibliography, Index

Über Autor(innen)

The editors are lecturers at the University of Newcastle.