About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780803983465ISBN:0803983468
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 272 pages. (288 pages) consists of two themes: reflexive modernization and risk. it upturns the essentially negative concepts of "post-industrial", "post-enlightenment", "post-fordist" and "postmodern" and replaces them with a picture of global social change. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Sage Pubns Ltd
Date Published: 1992-09-03
ISBN-13:9780803983465ISBN:0803983468
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780803983465ISBN:0803983468
Description: New. Consists of two themes: reflexive modernization and risk. It upturns the essentially negative concepts of "post-industrial", "post-Enlightenment", "post-Fordist" and "postmodern" and replaces them with a picture of global social change. read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Sage Pubns
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780803983465ISBN:0803983468
Description: New. 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 curre... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Sage Publications (CA), UK
ISBN-13:9780803983465ISBN:0803983468
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Sage Publications (CA), UK
ISBN-13:9780803983465ISBN:0803983468
Description: New. PLEASE NOTE that we do not offer expedited shipping. Orders placed with the priority shipping option will automatically be canceled.7. Science Beyond Truth and Enlightenment? / 8. Opening up the Political / Index ISBN10: 0803983468. read more
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"Beck argues that the Klassengesellschaft, in light of modernization and individualization economically and emotionally, is obsolete. The society of risk blurrs the lines between tradition class barriers. Interesting ideas, generates much discussion, but many sins of omission. Still, a good bit of sociology."
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