Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)
by:
Ulrich Beck (author)
Mark Ritter (author)
Scott Lash (author)
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...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780803983465 (0803983468)
Publish date: September 3rd 1992
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Really a very interesting book, but like most Sociology text books really could get the point across in half the words used.
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