Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity

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.

Author: Ulrich Beck
Publisher: Sage Publications UK
Published: 07/01/1992
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780803983465

About the Author
Beck, Ulrich: - Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the University of Munich. He is the author of Counterpoison (1991) and Ecological Enlightenment (1992).

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