The Risk Society and Beyond

Critical Issues for Social Theory

Inbunden, Engelska, 2000

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Beskrivning

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 arguments in Risk Society and develops a range of critical discussions of aspects of this and other works of Beck.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2000-05-25
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:510 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Upplaga:1
Förlag:SAGE Publications
ISBN:9780761964681

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

My primary expertise is in the area of social and socio-environmental time. I have developed this perspective over the last three decades during which I have worked the time dimension into the following areas of conceptual and empirical social science research: culture, education, environment, environmental economics, food, globalisation, gender, health, international relations, management, media, risk, technological innovation, transport and work. Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the University of Munich. He is the author of Counterpoison (1991) and Ecological Enlightenment (1992).

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction - Barbara Adam and Joost van LoonRepositioning Risk: The Challenge for Social TheoryPART ONE: RECASTING RISK CULTURERisk or Angst Society? - Alan ScottTwo Views of Risk, Consciousness and CommunityRisk Culture - Scott LashRisk, Trust and Scepticism in the Age of New Genetics - Hilary RosePART TWO: CHALLENGING BIG SCIENCENuclear Risks - Alan Irwin, Stuart Allan and Ian WelshThree ProblematicsGenotechnology - Lindsay Prior, Peter Glasner and Ruth McNallyThree Challenges to Risk LegitimationHealth and Responsibility - Elisabeth Beck-GernsheimFrom Social Change to Technological Change and Vice VersaPART THREE: MEDIATING TECHNOLOGIES OF RISKChild Organ Stealing Stories - Claudia CastanedaRisk, Rumour and Reproductive TechnologiesLiturgies of Fear - Howard CaygillBiotechnology and CultureVirtual Risks in an Age of Cybernetic Reproduction - Joost van LoonPART FOUR: P(L)AYING FOR FUTURESInformation, Instantaneity and Global Futures Trading - Deirdre BodenDiscourses of Risk and Utopia - Ruth LevitasRisk Society Revisited - Ulrich BeckTheory, Politics and Research Programmes