Collateral damage : social inequalities in a global age /
Zygmunt Bauman.
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Cambridge : Polity Press , 2011
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (190 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Introduction: Collateral damage of social inequality; 1: From the agora to the marketplace; 2: Requiem for communism; 3: The fate of social inequality in liquid modern times; 4: Strangers are dangers . . . Are they indeed?; 5: Consumerism and morality; 6: Privacy, secrecy, intimacy, human bonds - and other collateral casualties of liquid modernity; 7: Luck and the individualizationof remedies; 8: Seeking in modern Athens an answer to the ancient Jerusalem question; 9: A natural history of evil; 10: Wir arme Leut' . . .; 11: Sociology: whence and whither?; Notes; Index. - The term 'collateral damage' has recently been added to the vocabulary of military forces to refer to the unintended consequences of armed interventions, consequences that are unplanned but nevertheless damaging and often very costly in human and personal terms. But collateral damage is not unique to the world of armed intervention - it is also one of the most salient and striking dimensions of contemporary social inequality. The inflammable mixture of growing social inequality and the rising volume of human suffering marginalized as 'collateral' is becoming one of the most cataclysmic problem
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| Emner | Equality - Social aspects
Poverty Fattigdom Fattigdom(sosialøkonomisk teori) Vis mer... Globalisering
Globalisering(sosial endring) Poverty -- Social aspects. Human Rights Law, Politics & Government Globalisering((NO-OsBA)1126300) sosial ulikhet fattigdom sosiologi forbruk liberalisme velferd globalisering |
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| ISBN | 9780745652948. - 9780745652955
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