Risk Society

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Ulricii Beck's panoramic analysis of the condition of Western societies has already been hailed as a classic. This first English edition will take its place as a core text of contemporary sociology alongside earlier typifications of society as postindustrial, and current debates about the 'i-social dimensions of the postmodern.
Western industrial society is widely seen to be going through a decisive transitional period into a form defined ^ variously as'post-EnlightenmentVpost-Fordist'or 'postmodern'. Arguing that we are instead facing a different modernity typified by reflexivity, Ulrich Beck goes beyond these descriptions to provide a coherent picture of the direction of global social change.
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Underpinning the analysis is the notion of the'risk society'. The changing nature of society's relation to ; production and distribution is related to the environmental impact, as a totalizing, globalizing ¦ -economy based... Tovább

Fülszöveg

TCS
SAGE
Publications
Ix)ndon
Thousand Oaks New Delhi
Ulricii Beck's panoramic analysis of the condition of Western societies has already been hailed as a classic. This first English edition will take its place as a core text of contemporary sociology alongside earlier typifications of society as postindustrial, and current debates about the 'i-social dimensions of the postmodern.
Western industrial society is widely seen to be going through a decisive transitional period into a form defined ^ variously as'post-EnlightenmentVpost-Fordist'or 'postmodern'. Arguing that we are instead facing a different modernity typified by reflexivity, Ulrich Beck goes beyond these descriptions to provide a coherent picture of the direction of global social change.
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Underpinning the analysis is the notion of the'risk society'. The changing nature of society's relation to ; production and distribution is related to the environmental impact, as a totalizing, globalizing ¦ -economy based on scientific and technical knowledge becomes more central to socid organization and social conflict. Within this fi-amework, Ulrich Beck develops an overview of other key elements of current social w development: the centrality of the political economy of knowledge; the changing roles of class and gender m a new work environment; and the politics (both personal and public) of the risk society.
This major analysis of the presfent and future of moaemity will be essential reading for students and scholars in sociology and general social theoiy.
Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the University of Munich. He is the author oiCounterpoison (1991) and Ecological Enlightenment {1992).
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