Abstract
The article seeks to contribute to the rich debate between the thesis of the individualization of Ulrich Beck and the paradigm of structured social inequality. Whereas the proponents of the individualization thesis postulate a decoupling between social action and class origins, the adherents of the structured inequality paradigm deny it. The main thesis of the article is that it is not about decoupling class origin and social action, but rather loosening in the interdependence relations between the forms of inequality and action of the different social systems, so that its meaning for social action within another system becomes contingent.
Keywords:
Individualization; Social inequality; Functional differentiation; Social environment; Social systems