Beyond class and nation: Reframing social inequalities in a globalizing world

British Journal of Sociology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 679-705

  Beck, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Institutionalized individualization; Methodological cosmopolitanism; Methodological nationalism; Transnationalisation of social inequalities

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EUROPE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; POLITICS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EUROPE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; POLITICS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 36849009684     PISSN: 00071315     EISSN: 14684446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2007.00171.x     Document Type: Article

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