Diploma in geriatric medicine (DGM)

Ulrich Beck

“…It is the collective success with class struggle which institutionalizes individualization and dissolves the culture of classes, even under conditions of radicalizing inequalities. The limit and exception of this is the institutionalization of collective solutions such as the general binding quality of wage agreements, which in turn, however, can be undermined by the individualization of employment groups and contracts (see Kratzer 2005;Nies 2007). 8 The extent to which such an institutional individualization has taken place since the Second World War can only be established in historical sectoral analyses which investigate how aspects of individualization find expression in the societal semantics of law, that is, in the texts of legislation or commentaries on legislation and in the practice of the administration of justice (against the background of public discourses and political debate) or also in current and future reforms of the welfare state and of the labour market.…”