Risk Society: Towards a New ModernityThis panoramic analysis of the condition of Western societies has been hailed as a classic. This first English edition has taken its place as a core text of contemporary sociology alongside earlier typifications of society as postindustrial and current debates about the social dimensions of the postmodern. 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 social organization and social conflict. |
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Inhoudsopgave
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The Politics of Knowledge in the Risk Society | 51 |
The Individualization of Social Inequality Life Forms and the Demise of Tradition | 85 |
Beyond Status and Class? | 91 |
I am IGendered Space and Conflict Inside and Outside the Family | 103 |
Individualization Institutionalization and Standardization Life Situations and Biographical Patterns | 127 |
Destandardization of Labor | 139 |
Reflexive Modernization on the Generalization of Science and Politics | 151 |
Science beyond Truth and Enlightenment? | 155 |
Opening up the Political | 183 |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
action arguments become biography causal central chemical civilization claims class society conflicts consciousness consequences contradictions criticism critique cultural danger decision-making decisions demands democracy democratic dependent differentiation distribution economic environmental existence experience external fallibilism feudal forms gender global groups growing hand hazards historical human increase individual industrial society institutional institutionally knowledge labor market legitimation living longer marriage mass media Max Weber means ment mobility modernization risks nature norms nuclear family objective constraints opportunities organization organizational plants political system pollutants possible practice problems production productive forces professional progress protection public sphere question reality reflexive modernization relations relationships remains risk positions risk society role scientific rationality scientists Scott Lash sense side effects situations social classes structure sub-politics systematically techno-economic techno-scientific theoretical theory threatens threats tion tional toxic toxins traditional transformation Ulrich Beck underemployment vitro fertilization wage labor welfare women
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Pagina 35 - To that extent, risks only seem to strengthen, not to abolish, the class society. Poverty attracts an unfortunate abundance of risks. By contrast, the wealthy (in income, power or education) can purchase safety and freedom from risk.
Pagina 46 - ... and stakeholder engagement. These ideas link to Beck's who predicted that activism will become centrally important in the interpretation and communication of risk. He foreshadowed the growing power of the mass media and public communication to construct and define knowledge in the new social order: As the risk society develops, so does the antagonism between those afflicted by risks and those who profit from them. The social and economic importance of knowledge grows similarly, and with it the...
Pagina 21 - Risk may be defined as a systematic way of dealing with hazards and insecurities induced and introduced by modernization itself.
Pagina 21 - In the past, the hazards could be traced back to an undersupply of hygienic technology. Today they have their basis in industrial overproduction. The risks and hazards of today thus differ in an essential way from the superficially similar ones in the Middle Ages through the global nature of their threat.
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity Volume 17 van Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society |
| Auteur | Professor Ulrich Beck |
| Uitgever | SAGE, 1992 |
| ISBN | 1446223426, 9781446223420 |
| Lengte | 272 pagina's |
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