Individualism, identity, and social acceleration
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2019
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Hsu, E.L.
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Elliott, A.
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Source details - Title: Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies: 2nd Edition, 2019 / Elliott, A. (ed./s), Ch.9, pp.147-165
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This chapter argues that the introduction of a temporal dimension has been a major breakthrough in how individualism has come to be understood. It analyzes how Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert have theorized the temporal aspects of individualism. At least since the early modern era, the concept of individualism has been extolled within social theory as contributing new and significant understandings of identity. Many scholars and social researchers have used the prism of individualism to track broader developments and changes within societies. While Elliott and Lemert are more attuned to the accelerated aspects of individualism in the contemporary era, they have less to say about how individualism relates to social experience of slowness, which is key to understanding the complexities of identity in the current socio-temporal order. Concepts such as community are in urgent need of re-description because the social bonds which have traditionally held together have changed considerably.
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Copyright 2019 Routledge