Ulrich Beck,Mark Ritter: Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity
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Author: Ulrich Beck,Mark Ritter
Number of Pages: 272 pages
Published Date: 03 Sep 1992
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780803983465
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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.