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The Risk Society Revisited
Author | : Eugene Rosa,Aaron McCright,Ortwin Renn |
Publsiher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1439902593 |
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Risk is a part of life. How we handle uncertainty and deal with potential threats influence decision making throughout our lives. In The Risk Society Revisited, Eugene A. Rosa, Ortwin Renn, and Aaron M. McCright offer the first book to present an integrated theory of risk and governance. The authors examine our sociological understanding of risk and how we reconcile modern human conditions with our handling of risk in our quest for improved quality of life. They build a new framework for understanding risk—one that provides an innovative connection between social theory and the governance of technological and environmental risks and the sociopolitical challenges they pose for a sustainable future. Showing how our consciousness affects risk in the decisions we make—as individuals and as members of a democratic society—The Risk Society Revisited makes an important contribution to the literature of risk research.
World at Risk
Author | : Ulrich Beck |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2013-10-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780745681627 |
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Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted by Beck have taken on new forms and assumed ever greater significance. Terrorism has shifted to a global arena, financial crises have produced worldwide consequences that are difficult to control and politicians have been forced to accept that climate change is not idle speculation. In short, we have come to see that today we live in a world at risk. A new feature of our world risk society is that risk is produced for political gain. This political use of risk means that fear creeps into modern life. A need for security encroaches on our liberty and our view of equality. However, Beck is anything but an alarmist and believes that the anticipation of catastrophe can fundamentally change global politics. We have the opportunity today to reconfigure power in terms of what Beck calls a 'cosmopolitan material politics’. World at Risk is a timely and far-reaching analysis of the structural dynamics of the modern world, the global nature of risk and the future of global politics by one of the most original and exciting social thinkers writing today.
The Sociology of Risk and Gambling Reader
Author | : James F. Cosgrave |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9780415952224 |
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First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Risk Society and Beyond
Author | : Barbara Adam,Ulrich Beck,Joost Van Loon |
Publsiher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2000-07-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 076196469X |
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Risk society and beyond traces the evolution of Ulrich Beck's ideas as expressed in Risk Society (1992) and expands into previously unforeseen risk areas, such as genetics and cyberspace.
The Risk Society and Beyond
Author | : Barbara Adam,Ulrich Beck,Joost Van Loon |
Publsiher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2000-07-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 076196469X |
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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
Risk Revisited
Author | : Patrick Caplan |
Publsiher | : Pluto Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2000-02-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0745314635 |
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A range of distinguished anthropologists and sociologists re-examine the concept of risk in contemporary societies.
Ecological Enlightenment
Author | : Ulrich Beck |
Publsiher | : Prometheus Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1573923982 |
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Beck examines the politics of the risk society. He starts from the assumption that the ecological issue, considered politically and sociologically, is a systematic, legalized violation of fundamental civil rights and, from this position, adduces that the ecological conflict, politically speaking, is the successor to the industrial conflict. One of his central concerns is to illustrate just how the establishment, but expressing as much concern over the environmental issues as the radical groups who first raised them, has endeavored to take over the debate and then effectively stifled it. Beck argues that the vested interests have developed a strategy of avoiding discussion of accountability by bringing mega-risks to the foreground so that containable risks are hidden in their shadow. He concludes by arguing that only by bringing the discussion back to the accountability issue as informed by social sciences can the political initiative be wrested back from the vested interests.
Ulrich Beck
Author | : Ulrich Beck |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2014-03-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9783319049908 |
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This book presents Ulrich Beck, one of the world’s leading sociologists and social thinkers, as a Pioneer in Cosmopolitan Sociology and Risk Society. His world risk society theory has been confirmed by recent disasters – events that have shaken modern society to the core, signaling the end of an era in which comprehensive insurance could keep us safe. Due to its own successes, modern society now faces failure: while in the past experiments were conducted in a lab, now the whole world is a test bed. Whether nuclear plants, genetically modified organisms, nanotechnology – if any of these experiments went wrong, the consequences would have a global impact and would be irreversible. Beck recommends ignoring the mathematical morality of expert opinions, which seek to identify the level of a given risk by calculating the probability of its occurrence. Instead, man’s fear of collapse should offer an opportunity for international cooperation and a cosmopolitan turn in the social sciences.