ABSTRACT

This chapter uses structural stories to illuminate the idea of freedom. It aims to relate freedom as something substantial in a late modern everyday life. The chapter explores a number of different aspects of freedom and unfreedom. In relation to concept of freedom, three dichotomized concepts are mentioned: unfreedom, community and security. The Israeli journalist focused on the freedom one have in Denmark and reported on it as a freedom within a defined framework. Zygmunt Bauman wrote a book subjecting freedom to a sociological analysis, where freedom is understood as a social relation related to repression. Bauman defines individualism and capitalism from a sociological point of view, as being two social phenomenons which, in relation to freedom, are of particular interest. Bauman also discusses how the development of information technology which, with a speed that is not surpassed by anything else, can send information, and thereby help to dissolve the local and put an end to the concept of journey.