Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 228 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783030892012
Uniform Title:
Ulrich Beck$den kritisk indføring i teorien om verdensrisikosamfundet
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: What Is Risk? -- Newer Approaches to Risk Analysis -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 3: The Idea of the Risk Society -- The Contours of the Risk Society -- Risk, Knowledge and Politics -- Risk, Danger and 'Large-Scale Hazards' -- Risks as Both Real and Socially Constructed -- Manufactured Uncertainty -- Risk as Observation -- Risk, Insurance and Governmentality -- Critique of the Realist Understanding of Risk -- Three Basic Assumptions Underpinning Beck's Theory -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 4: Individualisation: Beyond Class and Social Communities? -- Individualisation in the Industrial Society ('Simple' Modernity) -- Individualisation in the Risk Society ('Reflexive' Modernity) -- Individualisation, Beck and Ziehe -- Individualisation, Beck and Giddens -- Individualisation, Beck and Bauman -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 5: Reflexive Modernity -- From Simple to Reflexive Modernity -- The 'Modern Counter-Modern' -- Reconceptualisation of Sociology in Reflexive Modernity -- Reflexive Modernity, Late Modernity and Liquid Modernity -- Multiple Modernities and Amodernity -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 6: Changes to Family, Paid Work and Politics in the (World) Risk Society -- Changes to the Family and Ways of Living Together -- The Change in Paid Work (Precarious Work) -- Changes to Politics (Sub-politics) -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 7: The World Risk Society as a Cosmopolitan Society? -- The 'Cosmopolitan Turn' in Beck's Theory -- World Risk Society and Cosmopolitanism -- Power and Counter-Power in the Age of Globalisation -- The Cosmopolitan Vision -- Cosmopolitan Europe -- A New Critical Sociology with a Cosmopolitan Outlook -- Cosmopolitanism, Universalism and Multiculturalism.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030892005
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rasborg, Klaus Ulrich Beck Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021 ISBN 9783030892005
Additional Edition:
ISBN 303089200X
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
Beck, Ulrich 1944-2015
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Risikogesellschaft
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-89201-2
Author information:
Rasborg, Klaus
