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Risk Society de Ulrich Beck

Risk Society: Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society

Autor Ulrich Beck
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iul 1992

Putem afirma că Risk Society reprezintă un punct de cotitură în înțelegerea dinamicii societăților vestice, fiind un text de referință pentru examenele avansate de sociologie și științe politice. Ulrich Beck propune o analiză panoramică asupra modului în care riscurile produse de progresul tehnologic și economic redefinesc structurile sociale tradiționale. Găsim în această carte o metodologie riguroasă care mută accentul de la distribuția bogăției la distribuția riscurilor, argumentând că societatea contemporană trăiește, metaforic, 'pe marginea unui vulcan al civilizației'.

Structura volumului este una progresivă, debutând cu logica politicii cunoașterii și continuând cu o analiză profundă a individualizării. Beck examinează modul în care inegalitatea socială se transformă odată cu erodarea tradițiilor, abordând teme precum dinamica de gen și de-standardizarea muncii. În ultima parte, autorul explorează 'modernizarea reflexivă', o perspectivă asupra modului în care știința și politica trebuie să se reinventeze în fața incertitudinilor globale. Această abordare este continuată și nuanțată în lucrările sale ulterioare, precum World at Risk, unde pericolele ecologice sunt analizate în contextul noilor tehnologii.

Ca alternativă la Risk, Environment and Modernity de Scott Lash pentru același nivel academic, Risk Society are avantajul de a oferi cadrul teoretic original și fundamental de la care au pornit toate dezbaterile ulterioare despre modernitate. În timp ce alte titluri din serie, precum The Risk Society and Beyond, cartografiază evoluția ideilor lui Beck, volumul de față rămâne esențial pentru înțelegerea conceptelor de bază fără filtrul interpretărilor secundare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780803983465
ISBN-10: 0803983468
Pagini: 268
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
Seria Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte studenților și cercetătorilor din domeniul sociologiei și științelor politice care doresc să înțeleagă mecanismele ascunse ale modernității. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă critică asupra modului în care riscurile globale — de la cele ecologice la cele economice — ne modelează biografiile individuale și deciziile politice. Este o lectură fundamentală pentru a descifra complexitatea lumii contemporane și a noilor forme de conflict social.

Despre autor

Ulrich Beck a fost profesor de sociologie la Universitatea din München, fiind una dintre cele mai influente voci ale gândirii sociale europene de la sfârșitul secolului XX. Opera sa se concentrează pe provocările modernității târzii, explorând teme precum riscul global, individualizarea și cosmopolitismul. Printre contribuțiile sale majore se numără lucrări precum Ecological Enlightenment (1992) și Counterpoison (1991), texte care, alături de Risk Society, au redefinit modul în care mediul academic abordează relația dintre știință, politică și societate în contextul crizelor ecologice.

Descriere scurtă

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.

Recenzii

This is a challenging book with a bold thesis which fully deserves the widespread attention it has provoked since its publication. In it Beck not only sets out a philosophically informed sociological theory of contemporary Western societies but also provides a framework within which environmental politics can be understood, explained and developed. While firm in criticising those who claim Western societies are "postmodern", Beck also offers an immanent critique of modernity's failed promises. What Beck claims is that contemporary society is at the cusp of a transition between "industrial society" and "risk society".... To conclude, "risk society" could be viewed as the "morning after" the industrial night(mare) before, with "reflexive modernization" as the "hair of the dog", a necessary but not sufficient condition for dealing with risk. A sobering analysis indeed!
Environmental Politics

Thoroughly attuned to complexity in ecopolitical affairs... dissatisfied with the state of these affairs... ponder[s] the problematic relationship between science and politics... offer[s] insight into how to move beyond an unsatisfactory status quo in the search for ecological rationality or sustainability.... sensitive to the ecological hazards of modernity... Risk Society appeared in German in 1986, and its substantial impact in German social science looks set to be repeated in the English-speaking world. To Beck, the contemporary crisis is not of modernity but withinmodernity. The question is... how to make the best of modernity; as Beck puts it, to move from the semi-modernity of industrial to modernity proper
Policy Sciences
Risk Society is incredibly thought-provoking and has quickly established itself as one of the most significant works of contemporary social analysis. A book of enormous breadth, it raises several issues of critical importance in contemporary society.... there are many memorable phrases and passages throughout the book which lead colour to the disturbing subject matter
The Ecologist
Provocative. Beck's discussion of the politics of risk societies is particularly insightful, and contributes to a more complete and critical understanding of advanced modern societies
Political Studies
Ulrich Beck's remarkable book Risk Society gives one cause to think again about whether a new model might not be becoming available for thinking about our times, in not an unhopeful spirit. Beck's book, published in Germany in 1986 and successful enough there to have sold more than 60,000 copies and turned its author into a regular columinst... Risk Society displays a real sociological imagination
Radical Philosophy
Beck's book, in the tradition of German critical theory, provides a panoramic and abstract overview of contemporary society as dominated by technical risk... The greatest strengths of Risk Society are its rich theorizing and its global, often original, insights into the nature of contemporary social forces. Beck explains that society fights the `devil of hunger' with the `Beelzebub of multiplying risks'. He also claims that, in industrial society, the driving force is `I am hungry' whereas in risk society it is `I am afraid'. Such gripping conceptualisations are the mark of a distinguished essaysist, as Beck is. He astutely observes that we have succeeded in being skeptical about the methods of science but not about the application of science. Likewise Beck says that in the risk society we have replaced the politics of voting with faith in progress
Environmental Values
Beck puts forward an intriguing argument: global endangerment is replacing class society and its alliances as an organizing principle. Whereas in earlier class-based societies only the proletariat was victimized, in the emerging worldwide risk society all groups - even the rich - are threatened...He makes the important point that risk and class positions overlap on a national and an international scale...Risk Society is a bold and imaginative treatise...vivid passages and sparkling metaphors...scholars, graduate students and patient general readers concerned with risk, social theory, or global social change will find reading it well worth their effort...(the) book addresses the cultural and moral dimensions of risk perception with compelling arguments. (It) also makes clear that social theory cannot truly explain contemporary society without carefully accounting for the roles played by science, technology, and cultural construcitons of risk
Contemporary Sociology
This is a book of central political and social importance; it is vital that it triggers off and animates public discussion in this country as it did in Germany. After all, the greatest of risks our risk-infested society carries is the indifference to the risk aspects of our individual, sectional and global actions
Times Higher Education Supplement
This analysis of the condition of Western societies made a 'big splash' when it was first published in German... The English translation will most probably help this important text of contemporary sociology to find its place among other typifications of society as postindustrial or postmodern... Here is a book which is very relevant to current debates about the social dimensions of the so-called 'post-modern society
Social Compass

Cuprins

Introduction - Scott Lash and Brian Wynne
PART ONE: LIVING ON THE VOLCANO OF CIVILIZATION - THE CONTOURS OF THE RISK SOCIETY
On the Logic of Wealth Distribution and Risk Distribution
The Politics of Knowledge in the Risk Society
PART TWO: THE INDIVIDUALIZATION OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY - LIFE-FORMS AND THE DEMISE OF TRADITION
Beyond Status and Class?
'I am I'
Gendered Space and the Conflict Inside and Outside the Family
Individualization, Institutionalization and Standardization
Life Situations and Biographical Patterns
De-Standardization of Labour
PART THREE: REFLEXIVE MODERNIZATION: ON THE GENERALIZATION OF SCIENCE AND POLITICS
Science Beyond Truth and Enlightenment?
Opening up the Political