individualisation thesis

• what do Giddens & Beck explore?


  -the effects of increasing individual choice upon families & relationships

  -their views are known as the individualisation thesis
• what does the thesis argue?

  -we've become 'disembedded' / freed from traditional roles & structures of modern society

  -we have complete freedom of choice when it comes to how we live our lives

  -individuals in today's society have fewer such certainties or fixed roles to follow
• Beck - biographies 


  -the 'standard biography' or life course people followed in the past has been replaced

  -replaced by the 'do-it-yourself biography' that individuals today must construct for themselves