| Description |
viii, 184 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: The Cosmopolitan Manifesto -- 2. World Risk Society as Cosmopolitan Society? Ecological Questions in a Framework of Manufactured Uncertainties -- 3. From Industrial Society to Risk Society: Questions of Survival, Social Structure and Ecological Enlightenment -- 4. Risk Society and the Welfare State -- 5. Subpolitics: Ecology and the Disintegration of Institutional Power -- 6. Knowledge or Unawareness? Two Perspectives on 'Reflexive Modernization' -- 7. Risk Society Revisited: Theory, Politics, Critiques and Research Programmes |
| Summary |
"This book by one of Europe's leading social and political theorists draws together key essays which argue that a new frame of reference is needed to understand the world risk society in which we live today. Beck focuses on ecological and technological questions of risk, and their sociological and political implications. In doing so, he discusses and answers some of the criticisms provoked by his earlier and much cited work on risk society."--BOOK JACKET. "This book is an important text for students and scholars in sociology and politics. It will also be read by a broader audience interested in the key social and political questions of our time."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Published in association with Blackwell Publishers |
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Reprinted 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-167) and index |
| Subject |
Risk -- Social aspects.
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Risk -- Sociological aspects.
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Technology -- Social aspects.
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Environmental degradation.
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Industries -- Environmental aspects.
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| LC no. |
99016938 |
| ISBN |
0745622216 (paperback) |
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0745622208 |
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