Living In The World Risk Society
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World At Risk
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Author : Ulrich Beck
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-10-29
World At Risk written by Ulrich Beck and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-29 with Social Science categories.
Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted by Beck have taken on new forms and assumed ever greater significance. Terrorism has shifted to a global arena, financial crises have produced worldwide consequences that are difficult to control and politicians have been forced to accept that climate change is not idle speculation. In short, we have come to see that today we live in a world at risk. A new feature of our world risk society is that risk is produced for political gain. This political use of risk means that fear creeps into modern life. A need for security encroaches on our liberty and our view of equality. However, Beck is anything but an alarmist and believes that the anticipation of catastrophe can fundamentally change global politics. We have the opportunity today to reconfigure power in terms of what Beck calls a 'cosmopolitan material politics’. World at Risk is a timely and far-reaching analysis of the structural dynamics of the modern world, the global nature of risk and the future of global politics by one of the most original and exciting social thinkers writing today.
Living In The World Risk Society
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
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The narrative of risk is a narrative of irony. This narrative deals with involuntary satire, optimistic futility; it is a situation in which the highly developed institutions of modern society -science, the state, business and the military- attempt to anticipate what cannot be anticipated. Socrates has left us to make sense of the puzzling sentence, "I only know that I know nothing". The fatal irony into which the scientific-technical society plunges us is, as a consequence of its perfection, much more radical: We don't know what it is we do not know, but from this dangers arise, which threaten mankind! The perfect example here is provided by the debate about climate change. In 1974, about 45 years after the discovery of the cooling agent CFC, of all things, the chemists Rowland and Molina put forward the hypothesis that CFCs destroy the ozone layer of the stratosphere and, as a result, a greater amount of ultraviolet radiation would reach the earth. The chain of unforeseen secondary effects would lead to climate changes, which threaten mankind's basis of existence. When coolants were invented, no one could know or even suspect that they would make such a major contribution to global warming.
Living In A World Risk Society A Reply To Mikkel V Rasmussen
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Author : Shlomo Griner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Living In A World Risk Society A Reply To Mikkel V Rasmussen written by Shlomo Griner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with International relations categories.
Living In World Risk Society Ediz Italiana E Inglese
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Author : Ulrich Beck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Living In World Risk Society Ediz Italiana E Inglese written by Ulrich Beck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Law categories.
Ulrich Beck
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Author : Klaus Rasborg
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-12-10
Ulrich Beck written by Klaus Rasborg and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-10 with Social Science categories.
This book provides a comprehensive and thorough interpretation of Beck's theory of the (world) risk society, from its original formulation up to his sudden death on New Year's Day 2015. Beck's entire body of work is divided into four interrelated phases, which are successively presented and discussed, namely: the original theory of risk society (from 1986 onwards); the theory of the world risk society (from 1996 onwards); the theory of cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitanization (from 1996 onwards); and the theory of 'metamorphosis', 'emancipatory catastrophism and 'global imagined risk communities' (2013–16). The book thus demonstrates how Beck’s concept of the (world) risk society has given us a new language or a special lens that enables us to better understand contemporary society’s complexity and its myriad of human-made uncertainties in terms of climate change, terrorist threats, global pandemics, economic crises, and migration crises.
The Risk Society And Beyond
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Author : Barbara Adam
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2000-07-27
The Risk Society And Beyond written by Barbara Adam and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-27 with Social Science categories.
Ulrich Beck's best selling Risk Society established risk on the sociological agenda. It brought together a wide range of issues centering on environmental, health and personal risk, provided a rallying ground for researchers and activists in a variety of social movements and acted as a reference point for state and local policies in risk management. The Risk Society and Beyond charts the progress of Beck's ideas and traces their evolution. It demonstrates why the issues raised by Beck reverberate widely throughout social theory and covers the new risks that Beck did not foresee, associated with the emergence of new technologies, genetic and cybernetic. The book is unique because it offers both an introduction to the main arg
The Risk Society Revisited
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Author : Eugene Rosa
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2014
The Risk Society Revisited written by Eugene Rosa and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Political Science categories.
Risk is a part of life. How we handle uncertainty and deal with potential threats influence decision making throughout our lives. In The Risk Society Revisited, Eugene A. Rosa, Ortwin Renn, and Aaron M. McCright offer the first book to present an integrated theory of risk and governance. The authors examine our sociological understanding of risk and how we reconcile modern human conditions with our handling of risk in our quest for improved quality of life. They build a new framework for understanding risk—one that provides an innovative connection between social theory and the governance of technological and environmental risks and the sociopolitical challenges they pose for a sustainable future. Showing how our consciousness affects risk in the decisions we make—as individuals and as members of a democratic society—The Risk Society Revisited makes an important contribution to the literature of risk research.
Ulrich Beck
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Author : Ulrich Beck
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2014-03-22
Ulrich Beck written by Ulrich Beck and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-22 with Social Science categories.
This book presents Ulrich Beck, one of the world’s leading sociologists and social thinkers, as a Pioneer in Cosmopolitan Sociology and Risk Society. His world risk society theory has been confirmed by recent disasters – events that have shaken modern society to the core, signaling the end of an era in which comprehensive insurance could keep us safe. Due to its own successes, modern society now faces failure: while in the past experiments were conducted in a lab, now the whole world is a test bed. Whether nuclear plants, genetically modified organisms, nanotechnology – if any of these experiments went wrong, the consequences would have a global impact and would be irreversible. Beck recommends ignoring the mathematical morality of expert opinions, which seek to identify the level of a given risk by calculating the probability of its occurrence. Instead, man’s fear of collapse should offer an opportunity for international cooperation and a cosmopolitan turn in the social sciences.
Ecological Enlightenment
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Author : Ulrich Beck
language : en
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Release Date : 1995
Ecological Enlightenment written by Ulrich Beck and has been published by Prometheus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Science categories.
Beck examines the politics of the risk society. He starts from the assumption that the ecological issue, considered politically and sociologically, is a systematic, legalized violation of fundamental civil rights and, from this position, adduces that the ecological conflict, politically speaking, is the successor to the industrial conflict. One of his central concerns is to illustrate just how the establishment, but expressing as much concern over the environmental issues as the radical groups who first raised them, has endeavored to take over the debate and then effectively stifled it. Beck argues that the vested interests have developed a strategy of avoiding discussion of accountability by bringing mega-risks to the foreground so that containable risks are hidden in their shadow. He concludes by arguing that only by bringing the discussion back to the accountability issue as informed by social sciences can the political initiative be wrested back from the vested interests.
Reflexive Modernization
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Author : Ulrich Beck
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1994
Reflexive Modernization written by Ulrich Beck and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Social Science categories.
Three prominent social thinkers discuss how modern society is undercutting its formations of class, stratum, occupations, sex roles, the nuclear family, and more. Reflexive modernization, or the way one kind of modernization undercuts and changes another, has wide ranging implications for contemporary social and cultural theory, as this provocative book demonstrates.