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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Seite 13 - The gain in power from techno-economic 'progress' is being increasingly overshadowed by the production of risks. In an early stage, these can be legitimated as 'latent side effects'. As they become globalized, and subject to public criticism and scientific investigation, they come, so to speak, out of the closet and achieve a central importance in social and political debates. This 'logic...
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| Titel | Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity Band 17 von Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society Band 17 von Theory, culture & society Theory, culture and society : explorations in critical social science |
| Autoren | Ulrich Beck, Scott Lash, Brian Wynne |
| Herausgeber | SAGE Publishing |
| Übersetzt von | Mark Ritter |
| Ausgabe | illustriert, Neuauflage |
| Verlag | SAGE, 1992 |
| ISBN | 0803983468, 9780803983465 |
| Länge | 260 Seiten |
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