Liquid Times: Living in an Age of UncertaintyThe passage from 'solid' to 'liquid' modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered. Social forms and institutions no longer have enough time to solidify and cannot serve as frames of reference for human actions and long term life plans, so individuals have to find other ways to organise their lives. They have to splice together an