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 ...
The theme of reflexivity has come to be central to social analysis. In this book three prominent social thinkers discuss the implications of 'reflexive modernization' for social and cultural theory today. Ulrich Beck's vision of the 'risk society' has already become extraordinarily influential. He offers a new elaboration of his basic ideas, ...
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 ...
In this new book, Ulrich Beck and the journalist Johannes Willms engage in a series of accessible conversations that reveal and explore the key elements in Beck's thought. Ulrich Beck, one of the most important and influential contemporary social thinkers, reveals and expands his work in a series of conversations with journalist Johannes Willms. ...
This important new book offers an engaging and challenging introduction to the thorny paths of the globalization debate. Beck aims to clarify the ambiguities of the debate, to distinguish between the various types of globalization and to warn the reader of conceptual traps. Most importantly, however, he opens up the horizon for political responses ...
In this new book, Ulrich Beck develops his now widely used concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology into a radical new sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications of globalization. Beck draws extensively on empirical and theoretical analyses of such phenomena as migration, war and terror, as well as a range of ...
In this important book, Ulrich Beck - one of the leading social thinkers in Europe today - examines how work has become unstable in the modern world and presents a new vision for the future. Beck begins by describing how the traditional work society, with its life-long job paths, is giving way to a much less stable world in which skills can be ...
'This book develops a number of themes introduced in Beck's previous best-selling "Risk Society" as well as initiating a set of new departures. Instead of posing 'good' social movements against 'bad' institutions, he proposes a transformation of the institutions themselves, of science, and of business, so that organized irresponsibility can be ...
Beck examines the politics of the risk society. He starts from the assumption that the ecological issue, considered politically and sociologically, is a systematic, legalised 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 ...
Up to now, modernization has always been conceived of, in contrast to the worlds of tradition and religion, as a liberation from the constraints of nature. What happens, however, if industrial society becomes a 'tradition' to itself? What if its own necessities, functional principles and fundamental concepts are undermined, broken up and ...
Individualization argues that we are in the midst of a fundamental change in the nature of society and politics. This change hinges around two processes: globalization and individualization. The book demonstrates that individualization is a structural characteristic of highly differentiated societies, and does not imperil social cohesion, but ...
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 ...
Those who advocate ideas about 'postmodernity' and 'post-industrialism' offer radical critiques of existing social and political institutions. But they provide very little in place of those institutions. It is all very well to criticize the limitations of social democracy, the welfare state, trade unionism, and social classes as agents of change, ...
This important book by one of Europe's leading social and political theorists draws together key essays which argue that a new frame of reference is needed to understand the world risk society in which we live today. Beck focuses on ecological and technological questions of risk, and their sociological and political implications. In doing so, he ...
Europe is Europe's last remaining realistic political utopia. But Europe remains to be understood and conceptualized. This historically unique form of international community cannot be explained in terms of the traditional concepts of politics and the state, which remain trapped in the straightjacket of methodological nationalism. Thus, if we are ...
This brilliant new book by one of Europe's leading social thinkers throws light on the global power games being played out between global business, nation states and movements rooted in civil society. Beck offers an illuminating account of the changing nature of power in the global age and assesses the influence of the ever-expanding counter ...
This volume explores the phenomenon of Americanization and its worldwide impact, and the cultural consequences of globalization. Following an introductory overview, three chapters deal with theoretical perspectives on cosmopolitanism, Americanization, globalization, culture, modernity and immediacy. Case studies follow on France, Japan and China, ...
Men and women are increasingly becoming the authors of their own styles of life. The nature of love is changing fundamentally in conjunction with transformations in sexual life and family forms. Love, as Beck and Beck-Gernsheim argue, has become an empty category, which lovers themselves must fill in relation to their own biographies and emotional ...
Los europeos seguimos fingiendo que Alemania, Francia, Italia, los Paises Bajos, Espana, etcetera, continuan existiendo. Pero ya hace mucho que no existen, pues los contenedores de poder y las unidades sociales delimitadas que constituian los Estados nacionales son ahora, maxime con la introduccion del euro, algo irreal. En la medida en que hay ...
This book focuses on the relationship between physical space and social mobility, focusing on the new phenomenon of the "international professional" who makes the world his home. Mobile people, Magdalena Nowicka reveals, create their own spatial and cultural universes through daily routines and practices. Even the choice of a specific residence, ...
Los textos que forman parte del presente volumen abordan la siguiente cuestion: que significo para el debate social el ano 1989, aquel en que se liquido el orden impuesto por la Guerra Fria? La respuesta del autor parece, a primera vista, simple: se desdibujaron las antiguas coordenadas y las oposiciones capitalismo comunismo y derecha izquierda ...
B+Que significa, pues, la mirada cosmopolita? No el amanecer de la confraternizacion general de los pueblos, ni los albores de la republica universal, ni una mirada mundial que flotara libremente, ni el amor al otro por decreto. El cosmopolitismo no es tampoco un suplemento que deba sustituir al nacionalismo y al provincialismo, y ello no porque ...
Ya se han dicho muchas cosas acerca del terrible panorama que nos puede ofrecer, hoy en dia, una sociedad que se pone a si misma en peligro a traves del mercado de la comunicacion. Tampoco podemos anadir nada a la desorientacion que han provocado las ultimas fases del industrialismo, todavia en pie a pesar de sus crecientes contradicciones. Pero ...
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