{"id":7285,"date":"2024-04-03T15:05:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T13:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fhse-en\/?post_type=events&#038;p=7285"},"modified":"2024-04-24T16:40:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T14:40:39","slug":"becoming-the-best-version-of-yourself-sociological-perspectives-on-self-optimisation","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fhse-en\/events\/becoming-the-best-version-of-yourself-sociological-perspectives-on-self-optimisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming the \u201cbest version\u201d of yourself? Sociological perspectives on self-optimisation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"abstract\"\n    >\nAbstract<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Self-optimisation has arguably become a central socio-cultural trend in contemporary Western societies. The imperative to optimise our ways of thinking, feeling, and interacting with others features prominently in public discourse, and a range of commercial products and services<br>are available to assist us in our quest to become the \u201cbest version\u201d of our selves. But what does this mean? Why has self optimisation become so prominent today? And what are potentials, but also limits and risks of self-optimisation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Anja R\u00f6cke<\/em><\/strong> is a sociologist, her research fields include cultural sociology, European sociology and political sociology. Since October 2023 she is a researcher at Saarland University in the Department of European Social Research and is associated to the Department of Social<br>Sciences at Humboldt University Berlin and to the Centre Marc Bloch Berlin. Before, she was assistant professor and interim professor for General Sociology and for Macro Sociology at Humboldt University. 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