ENGLISH

The Risk Society and Beyond: Critical Issues for Social Theory

By Barbara Adam , Joost Van Loon , Ulrich Beck

Book information

Publisher
Sage Publications
Year
2000
ISBN
076196469X, 9780761964698, 0761964681, 9780761964681
LCC
HM1101 .R593 2000
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1790737 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
240\241
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05
Социологические дисциплины;Социология риска

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

Similar books