Beyond Class and Nation: Reframing Social Inequalities in a Globalizing World

Beck, Ulrich

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“…Their experiences of normality and difference in the childhood arenas of home, hospital and school shape their narratives of identity and throw light on an underexplored aspect of the relationship between medicine and society. Significantly, as these distinctions become more blurred and confused in modern society (Jones and Higgs 2010), and as medical innovations such as face and hand transplantation become more widespread, we argue that such differences become another feature of the normativity of diversity (Beck 2007), rather than being the source of division and exclusion.…”

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Constructing embodied identity in a ‘new’ ageing population: A qualitative study of the pioneer cohort of childhood liver transplant recipients in the UK

Lowton

Hiley

Higgs

2017

Social Science & Medicine

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Medical innovations have created a future of survivorship for many groups of people with a variety of conditions that were previously untreatable or untreated. This has led not only to an expansion of medical activity in a whole variety of new areas but also to the emergence of new groups of individuals defined or defining themselves through their experiences, diagnosis and treatment. Through analysis of in-depth interviews with 27 of the now-adult survivors of the pioneer cohort of children receiving liver transplants in Britain in the early 1980s and 1990s, this paper presents how this group not only illustrate the capacities of modern medicine and healthcare to transform the survival prospects of a more diversified population, but also create new narratives of embodied identity. Specifically, we examine how childhood identities were shaped in three settings; home, hospital and school. At home, parents appeared to shape their child's identity through controlling tightly a daily medical regime focused on the concept of 'body as machine', celebrating their survival as a transplant recipient, yet at the same time socialising their child as a 'normal' child, albeit one who had a serious illness. The hospital appeared instrumental in shaping parents' focus on their child's body, and offered a way, through other patients with liver disease, for children to feel 'normal' in their difference. It was in school, through interaction with 'healthy' children and teachers, that corporeality and embodiment appeared most salient, and where social identity was negotiated and more often held in contention. Adult survivors of childhood liver transplant straddle the different discourses of normality and difference as their embodied experiences shape their narratives of identity and shed light on an underexplored aspect of the relationship between medicine and society.

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Constructing embodied identity in a ‘new’ ageing population: A qualitative study of the pioneer cohort of childhood liver transplant recipients in the UK

Lowton

Hiley

Higgs

2017

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Будучи само по себе не новым 1 , понятие индивидуализации наиболее прочно ассоциируется сегодня с работами У. Бека, Э. Гидденса, З. Баумана, посвященными социальным послед-ствиям глобализации капитала, рисков, потребления и знания (Beck, 1992(Beck, , 1994(Beck, , 2007Beck, Beck-Gernsheim, 2002;Beck, Lau, 2005;Bauman, 2013Bauman, [2000Bauman, ], 2007Giddens, [1991; Giddens, 2002Giddens, [1999). Теоретики индивидуализации наследуют постмодернистский тезис о том, что информационно-технологический скачок и развитие рынка обнажили человека перед целым рядом новых -обобщенных и удаленных -«значимых других» и, следовательно, усложнили процесс само-идентификации Bhat, 2013), в отличие от постмодернистов, они не говорят о тотальном конструировании личностей, а, напротив, подчеркивают способность современных людей «продюсировать, режиссировать и монтировать» свои биографии (Beck, 1994: 13).…”

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“…Э. Гидденс обращает внимание на возросший доступ к экспертному знанию, позволяющему уходить от культурных и традиционалистских посылок в принятии решений (Giddens, [1991). У. Бек подчеркивает негативные соци-ально-экономические последствия глобализации, усиление общественной неопре-деленности и становление «экономики и общества риска» (Beck, 1992) и в то же время отмечает значение классического государства благоденствия как принципи-ального условия для раскрепощения, освобождения от прессинга класса, гендера, семьи (Beck, Beck-Gernsheim, 2002;Beck, 2007).…”

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“…Она понимается как слом ценностных абсо-лютов, уход в прошлое монополии церкви или государства на истину и мораль (Berger et al, 1973;, распространение либеральной идеологии и становление «институционального индивидуализма», то есть такого режима об-щественных отношений, когда на человека (а не коллектив) и де-юре, и де-факто возлагается право принятия решений и ответственность за них (Beck, 2007). Де-1.…”

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“…Некоторые критикуют теорию по формальным признакам и пеняют авторам (прежде всего Беку) на от-сутствие эмпирической базы Beck, 2007) и изобилие внутренних противоречий. Нелогично одновременно говорить об индивидуализации как о системном макрофакторе и тут же отрицать наличие других факторов, таких как класс и гендер .…”

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Beyond Class and Nation: Reframing Social Inequalities in a Globalizing World

Cited by 98 publications

References 33 publications

Constructing embodied identity in a ‘new’ ageing population: A qualitative study of the pioneer cohort of childhood liver transplant recipients in the UK

Constructing embodied identity in a ‘new’ ageing population: A qualitative study of the pioneer cohort of childhood liver transplant recipients in the UK

Agency and Structure in Social Mobility in the Light of Individualization: Empirical Research Review

Youth Transitions of Descendants of Turkish Immigrants

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