Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity
- ISBN-10
- 080398345X
- ISBN-13
- 9780803983458
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992-09-16
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Limited
- Author
- Ulrich Beck
Description
This 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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