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  British Journal of SociologyVolume 58 Issue 4, Pages 679 - 705 Published Online: 7 Dec 2007 © 2010 London School of Economics and Political Science
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 155K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Beyond class and nation: reframing social inequalities in a globalizing world Copyright London School of Economics and Political Science 2007 KEYWORDS Institutionalized individualization • transnationalisation of social inequalities • methodological nationalism • methodological cosmopolitanism Abstract
From the start individualization theory is the investigation of the paradigm shift in social inequality. Furthermore it shows, how the transnationalization of social inequalities bursts the framework of institutional responses – nation state (parties), trade unions, welfare state systems and the national sociologies of social classes. In this essay I shall try to conceptually elucidate the 'cosmopolitan perspective' on relations of social inequality in three cases: (1) the inequality of global risk; (2) the Europe-wide dynamic of inequality; and (3) transnational inequalities, which emerge from the capacities and resources to transcend borders. Before that I take up Will Atkinson's question: 'What exactly constitutes individualization and to what extent has it really displaced class?' (Atkinson 2007: Abstract) (Date accepted: August 2007) | 
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