The Risk Society and Beyond: Critical Issues for Social Theory

The Risk Society and Beyond: Critical Issues for Social Theory
ISBN-10
076196469X
ISBN-13
9780761964698
Category
Social Science
Pages
232
Language
English
Published
2000-07-27
Publisher
SAGE
Authors
Ulrich Beck, Barbara Adam, Joost Van Loon

Description

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

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