The Normal Chaos of Love

This is a brilliant study of the nature of love in modern society. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that the nature of love is changing fundamentally, creating opportunities for democracy or chaos in personal life.

Self-Help

BECK, ULRICH

Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth

Relationships

Polity Pr

This is a brilliant study of the nature of love in modern society. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that the nature of love is changing fundamentally, creating opportunities for democracy or chaos in personal life.

Parenting & Relationships

Polity

Reinventing the Family: In Search of New Lifestyles

The traditional image of the family as a life-long unit is fading fast. There are fewer marriages, more divorces, and ever more children born to unmarried or single parents. The forms of our private life are changing rapidly, and people are embarking on new lifestyles based on cohabitation, separation and same-sex partnerships. In this lively and accessible new book, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim looks at the future of our lives after the family. Examining the breakdown of the conventional family unit, she explores the new choices that are open to individuals, and analyses our anxiety over the ensuing loss of stability.   In Reinventing the Family, Beck-Gernsheim describes how men and women are being confronted with competing and often incompatible demands. Our areas of personal choice have been redrawn, but in a space that involves new social regulations and controls. The talk of 'family values' sits uneasily with the reality of long working-hours, business trips, weekend seminars and career moves. At work, we are encouraged to pursue competition, speed and change; at home we are expected to find community and conciliation. Beck-Gernsheim examines the impact of these conflicting expectations on the relationships between men, women and children, and searches for possible solutions.    Reinventing the Family is an important and timely contribution to the growing debate about the family and its future. It will be ideal reading for students of sociology and gender studies, but will also appeal to a wide general readership.

The traditional image of the family as a life-long unit is fading fast. There are fewer marriages, more divorces, and ever more children born to unmarried or single parents. The forms of our private life are changing rapidly, and people are embarking on new lifestyles based on cohabitation, separation and same-sex partnerships. In this lively and accessible new book, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim looks at the future of our lives after the family. Examining the breakdown of the conventional family unit, she explores the new choices that are open to individuals, and analyses our anxiety over the ensuing loss of stability. 
In Reinventing the Family, Beck-Gernsheim describes how men and women are being confronted with competing and often incompatible demands. Our areas of personal choice have been redrawn, but in a space that involves new social regulations and controls. The talk of ‘family values' sits uneasily with the reality of long working-hours, business trips, weekend seminars and career moves. At work, we are encouraged to pursue competition, speed and change; at home we are expected to find community and conciliation. Beck-Gernsheim examines the impact of these conflicting expectations on the relationships between men, women and children, and searches for possible solutions. Reinventing the Family is an important and timely contribution to the growing debate about the family and its future. It will be ideal reading for students of sociology and gender studies, but will also appeal to a wide general readership.

Distant Love

Love and family life in the global age: grandparents in Salonikaand their grandson in London speak together every evening viaSkype. A U.S. citizen and her Swiss husband fret over largetelephone bills and high travel costs. A European couple canfinally have a baby with the help of an Indian surrogatemother.In their new book, Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheiminvestigate all types of long-distance relationships, marriages andfamilies that stretch across countries, continents and cultures.These long-distance relationships comprise so many different formsof what they call ‘world families’, by which they meanlove and intimate relationships between individuals living in, orcoming from, different countries or continents. In all theirvarious forms these world families share one feature in common:they are the focal point in which different aspects of theglobalized world become embodied in the personal lives ofindividuals. Whether they like it or not, lovers and relatives inthese families find themselves confronting the world in the innerspace of their own lives. The conflicts between the developed anddeveloping worlds come to the surface in world families- theyacquire faces and names, creating confusion, surprise, anger, joy,pleasure and pain at the heart of everyday life. This path-breaking book will appeal to a wide readership interestedin the changing character of love in our times.

Love and family life in the global age: grandparents in Salonika and their grandson in London speak together every evening via Skype. A U.S. citizen and her Swiss husband fret over large telephone bills and high travel costs. A European couple can finally have a baby with the help of an Indian surrogate mother. In their new book, Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim investigate all types of long-distance relationships, marriages and families that stretch across countries, continents and cultures. These long-distance relationships comprise so many different forms of what they call ‘world families’, by which they mean love and intimate relationships between individuals living in, or coming from, different countries or continents. In all their various forms these world families share one feature in common: they are the focal point in which different aspects of the globalized world become embodied in the personal lives of individuals. Whether they like it or not, lovers and relatives in these families find themselves confronting the world in the inner space of their own lives. The conflicts between the developed and developing worlds come to the surface in world families- they acquire faces and names, creating confusion, surprise, anger, joy, pleasure and pain at the heart of everyday life. This path-breaking book will appeal to a wide readership interested in the changing character of love in our times.

Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

Individualization argues that we are in the midst of a fundamental change in the nature of society and politics. This change hinges around two processes: globalization and individualization. The book demonstrates that individualization is a structural characteristic of highly differentiated societies, and does not imperil social cohesion, but actually makes it possible. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that it is vital to distinguish between the neo-liberal idea of the free-market individual and the concept of individualization. The result is the most complete discussion of individualization currently available, showing how individualization relates to basic social rights and also paid employment; and concluding that in

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Sage Publications Ltd.

Individualization argues that we are in the midst of a fundamental change in the nature of society and politics. This change hinges around two processes: globalization and individualization. The book demonstrates that individualization is a structural characteristic of highly differentiated societies, and does not imperil social cohesion, but actually makes it possible. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that it is vital to distinguish between the neo-liberal idea of the free-market individual and the concept of individualization. The result is the most complete discussion of individualization currently available, showing how individualization relates to basic social rights and also paid employment; and concluding that in

Fernliebe: Lebensformen im globalen Zeitalter

Suhrkamp Verlag AG

¿Es posible un amor entre iguales? ¿Existe el amor después de la "emancipación"? ¿O acaso es verdad que la liberación personal y el amor constituyen dos opuestos irreconciliables? Cuando el entusiasmo juvenil se ha perdido, cuando ya no se ven metas ni objetivos, resurge la vieja pregunta: "¿Quién soy?". Y entonces entra en escena otra pasión: la pasión por la autonomía, por la autoafirmación, por la propia vida. A partir de ahí, sólo quien equipara el matrimonio con la sexualidad, el amor y la convivencia puede caer en el error de creer que el divorcio significa el final del matrimonio. Pues la religión y el amor contienen una utopía análoga: son una llave para salir de la jaula de la normalidad. Este libro afirma que una de las principales características de los tiempos que nos ha tocado vivir es el choque de intereses entre amor, familia y libertad personal. La familia nuclear, construida alrededor de la diferenciación sexual, se está desmembrando debido a las cuestiones que plantean la emancipación y la igualdad ante la ley. Y ello genera el caos totalmente normal y cotidiano del amor.

El normal caos del amor: Las nuevas formas de la relación amorosa (Contextos / Context) (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Ediciones Paidós

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The Normal Chaos of Love

The Normal Chaos of Love

Reinventing the Family: In Search of New Lifestyles

Reinventing the Family: In Search of New Lifestyles

Distant Love

Distant Love

Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

Fernliebe: Lebensformen im globalen Zeitalter

El normal caos del amor: Las nuevas formas de la relación amorosa (Contextos / Context) (Spanish Edition)