Individual in Modern Society

Question 1

pre-modernity

Answer 1

absence of awareness that how people live their lives is relatively arbitrary ad can just as well be different

Question 2

detraditionalisation

Answer 2

shift in authority from ‘without’ to ‘within’ and a decline of belief in natural order of things

Question 3

ordering

Answer 3

mass of impressions and experiences into meaningful whole

Question 4

objectifying

Answer 4

through language and discourse - one forgets the social world is their creation

Question 5

socialisation

Answer 5

how the objectified world acts back on human consciousness

Question 6

individualism in religion

Answer 6

sacralization of the most important values, nowadays, spirituality is mindfulness and self-development

Question 7

individualism in politics

Answer 7

personalized, campaigns aiming at more than policy proposals, instead focusing on the individual candidate and their personality, their self

Question 8

individualism in consumption

Answer 8

consumer culture is about the negotiation of status and identity

Question 9

individualism as basis for exclusion

Answer 9

it can lead to selfish views and xenophobia