ISBN:
9781136263590
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (209 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Sociology Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.4
Keywords:
Beck, Ulrich, -- 1944- -- Political and social views
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Social change
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Civilization, Modern
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Risk perception
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Risk-taking (Psychology)
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Social sciences -- Philosophy
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Beck, Ulrich ; 1944- ; Political and social views
;
Civilization, Modern
;
Risk perception
;
Risk-taking (Psychology)
;
Social change
;
Social sciences ; Philosophy
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Beck, Ulrich 1944-2015
;
Gesellschaftskritik
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Risikoverhalten
Abstract:
Since the 1980s, Ulrich Beck has worked extensively on his theories of second modernity and the risk society. In Ulrich Beck, Mads P. Sørensen and Allan Christiansen provide an extensive and thorough introduction to the German sociologist's collected works. The book covers his sociology of work, his theories of individualization, globalization and subpolitics, his world famous theory of the risk society and second modernity as well as his latest work on cosmopolitanism. Focusing on the theory outlined in Beck's chief work, Risk Society, and on his theory of second modernity, Sørensen and Christiansen explain the sociologist's ideas and writing in a clear and accessible way. Largely concerned with the last 25 years of Beck's authorship, the book nevertheless takes a retrospective look at his works from the late seventies and early eighties, and reviews the critique that has been raised against Beck's sociology through the years. Each chapter of Ulrich Beck comes with a list of suggested further reading, as well as explanations of core terms. The book also includes a biography of Beck, and full bibliographies of his work in both English and German. This comprehensive introduction will be of interest to all students of sociology, contemporary social theory, globalization theory, environmental studies, politics, geography and risk studies.
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- 1 Introduction and a short biography -- From Slupsk to sociological world fame: a short biography -- This book and its contents -- 2 Risk society -- A new society -- The end of industrial society -- Risk and hazard -- Three historical epochs -- A new logic of distribution -- The changed status of nature -- Side effects -- Core terms -- Further reading -- 3 The theory of second modernity -- Industrial society and modernity -- Premises of first modern society -- The five challenges of second modernity -- Basic institutions and basic principles -- From simple-linear to reflexive modernization -- Liquid modernity, late modernity and second modernity -- Early sketches of the theory of second modernity -- Core terms -- Further reading -- 4 Individualization -- A new, radicalized kind of individualization -- Institutionalized individualization -- 'For now' -- Beyond class and nation -- Choosing everything -- An ambivalent process -- 'All-risk' individualization -- The danger of atomization -- Individualization theory prior to Ulrich Beck -- Core terms -- Further reading -- 5 Globalization and cosmopolitanism -- What is globalization? -- New risks and zombies -- Real cosmopolitanization -- The meta-game of power -- The three dimensions of danger -- Transnationalization -- The cosmopolitan state -- The cosmopolitan Europe -- The new social inequality -- Core terms -- Further reading -- 6 Sociology, science and politics in second modernity -- Towards a cosmopolitan turn in sociology -- The transformation and new status of science -- Subpolitics -- Core terms -- Further reading -- 7 The third industrial revolution -- The third industrial revolution -- The end of full-employment society -- Flexible, pluralized forms of underemployment.
Description / Table of Contents:
PrefaceIntroduction and a short biography -- Risk society : the return of uncertainty -- The theory of second modernity : Ulrich Beck's diagnosis of contemporary modernity -- Individualization : doomed to live a life of one's own -- Globalization and cosmopolitanism : living in an interconnected world -- Sociology, science, and politics in second modernity -- The third industrial revolution: the end of full employment society -- Critique of Ulrich Beck's sociology -- Bibliography of Ulrich Beck.
Description / Table of Contents:
the return of uncertainty -- The theory of second modernity : Ulrich Beck's diagnosis of contemporary modernity -- Individualization : doomed to live a life of one's own -- Globalization and cosmopolitanism : living in an interconnected world -- Sociology, science, and politics in second modernity -- The third industrial revolution: the end of full employment society -- Critique of Ulrich Beck's sociology -- Bibliography of Ulrich Beck
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