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Author | : Eugene Rosa |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781439902592 |
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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.
Author | : Barbara Adam |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2000-07-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780761964698 |
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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.
Author | : James F. Cosgrave |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 0415952220 |
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First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Ulrich Beck |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2013-10-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 074568162X |
Download World at Risk Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Peter Kivisto |
Publisher | : Pine Forge Press |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1412978157 |
Download Illuminating Social Life Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Illuminating Social Life has enjoyed increasing popularity with each edition. It is the only book designed for undergraduate teaching that shows today's students how classical and contemporary social theories can be used to shed new light on such topics as the internet, the world of work, fast food restaurants, shopping malls, alcohol use, body building, sales and service, and new religious movements.A perfect complement for the sociological theory course, it offers 13 original essays by leading scholars in the field who are also experienced undergraduate theory teachers. Substantial introductions by the editor link the applied essays to a complete review of the classical and modern social theories used in the book.
Author | : Ulrich Beck |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2014-03-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3319049909 |
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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.
Author | : Ulrich Beck |
Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781573923989 |
Download Ecological Enlightenment Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Ortwin Renn |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2008-12-18 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1402067992 |
Download Global Risk Governance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The establishment of the International Risk Governance Council (IRGC) was the direct result of widespread concern that the complexity and interdependence of health, environmental, and technological risks facing the world was making the development and implementation of adequate risk governance strategies ever more difficult. This volume details the IRGC developed and proposed framework for risk governance and covers how it was peer reviewed as well as tested
Author | : Judith Aldridge |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2013-03 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1136822518 |
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This book updates the progress into adulthood of 14-year-olds that were tracked for the first edition, using qualitative interviews and self-report surveys. The new edition shows them moving into the world of work, relationships and parenthood.
Author | : Frank Furedi |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2002-04-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780826459299 |
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Fear has become an ever-expanding part of life in the West in the twenty-first century. We live in terror of disease, abuse, stranger danger, environmental devastation and terrorist onslaught. We are bombarded with reports of new concerns for our safety and that of our children, and urged to take greater precautions and seek more protection. But compared to the past, or to the developing world, people in contemporary Western societies have much less familiarity with pain, suffering, debilitating disease and death. We actually enjoy an unprecedented level of personal safety. When confronted with events like the destruction of the World Trade Center, fear for the future is inevitable. But what happened on September 11th, 2001 was in many ways an old fashioned act of terror, representing the destructive side of human passions. Frank Furedi argues that the greater danger in our culture is the tendency to fear achievements that represent a more constructive side of humanity. We panic about genetically engineered food, about genetic research, about the health dangers of mobile phones. The facts, however, often fail to support the scare stories about new or growing risks to our health and safety. Instead, it is our obsession with theoretical risks that is in danger of distracting us from dealing with the old-fashioned dangers that have always threatened our lives.