ENGLISH

Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity

By Ulrich Beck

Book information

Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Year
1992
ISBN
0-8039-8346-8
Google Books ID
QUDMaGlCuEQC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5192865 bytes)
Series
Theory, Culture & Society
Pages
264\264
DPI
600
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-08-18 16:30:22

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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