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Detailed and thought-provoking discussion of lifestyle regulation and how preventive lifestyle policies need to be shaped with the 'saturated society' - a society of self-controlled, fully autonomous individuals - in mind. Carefully analyzing the impact of the rise of consumer society it deftly argues that the saturation of the modern ideals of progress, individualism, and the democratic state has limited lifestyle regulation to stressing the self-responsibility of individuals within a free market. The book critically examines: Neo-Liberal ideology and the free market The Sociology of Modernity The New Consumer Society Citizenship in Mass Society The power of Autonomy The interaction of Regulation and Agency

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Author

Pekka Sulkunen

Publisher

Sage Publications Ltd

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781847870193

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Medical, Sociology