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The Risk Society and Beyond: Critical Issues for Social Theory

Name: The Risk Society and Beyond: Critical Issues for Social Theory
ISBN: 9780761964698

Barbara Adam, Ulrich Beck, Joost Van Loon

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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 management. The Risk Society and Beyond charts the progress of Beck's ideas and traces their evolution. It demonstrates why the issues raised by Beck reverberate widely throughout social theory and covers the new risks that Beck did not foresee, associated with the emergence of new technologies, genetic and cybernetic. The book is unique because it offers both an introduction to the main arg

Catégories:

Society, Politics & Philosophy

Année:

2000

Edition:

1st

Editeur::

Sage Publications

Langue:

english

Pages:

240