By BECK, Ulrich _amp; BECK-GERNSCHEIM, Elisabeth.
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Schorlemmer, F. (1993) ‘Der Befund ist nicht alles’. Contribution to debate on Bindungsverlust und Zukunftsangst in der Risikogesellschaft, 30 October 1993, in Halle. Manuscript. Struck, G. (1991) ‘Die mühselige Gleichberechtigung von Mann und Frau in Ehenamensrecht, Neue Justiz, 9, pp. 390–2. Sun, L. H.
From such prerequisites – as from a cornucopia of secularized ethical duties – pour forth ‘role patterns’, ‘functions’, ‘demands’, ‘subsystems’, equally remote from God and the earth, divorced from action and yet its precondition, which are to be applied as a standard to the confusion and refractoriness of individuals, to yield judgements such as ‘normal’, ‘deviant’, ‘erroneous’ and ‘absurd’. Accordingly, the ‘individualistic’ perspective on society has up to now been usually dismissed as presumptuous and self-contradictory.
Cunningham, 1991: 203) 6 Losing the Traditional Life loses its self-evident quality; the social ‘instinct substitute’ which supports and guides it is caught up in the grinding mills of what needs to be thought out and decided. If it is correct that routines and institutions have an unburdening function which renders individuality and decision making possible, it becomes clear what kind of encumbrance, exertion and stress is imposed by the destruction of routine. Ansgar Weymann (1989) points to the efforts the individual makes to escape this ‘tyranny of possibilities’ – such as flight into magic, myth, metaphysics.